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Heteroglossia, Voicing and Social Categorisation

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Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy

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Observations of heteroglossic practices have led to questioning of the usefulness of the concepts of “language” or “variety” in research as well as pedagogy, and it has been argued that such concepts are representations of particular language ideologies rather than of linguistic practice. This chapter examines details of what voices are performed with what local purposes in interactions among adolescents in Copenhagen. How are particular stylised voices achieved? How salient are they? And how do they relate to larger scale processes of social categorisation in society?

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Abbreviations

[overlap]:

Overlapping speech

LOUD:

Louder volume than surrounding utterances

xxx:

Uintelligible speech

(questionable):

Parts I am uncertain about

((comment)):

My comments

::

Prolongation of preceding sound

↑:

Local pitch raise

(.):

Short pause

(0.6):

Timed pause

Stress:

Stress

hhh:

Laughter breathe

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  1. Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark

    Lian Malai Madsen

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    Adrian Blackledge

  2. School of Education, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Angela Creese

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Madsen, L. (2014). Heteroglossia, Voicing and Social Categorisation. In: Blackledge, A., Creese, A. (eds) Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy. Educational Linguistics, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7856-6_3

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