A-prefixing in #English has apparently become so functionless that it can be used to elicit a #socialmeaning even in non-#progressive constructions, as in this #RobZombie song that I was listening to recently where he sings:
"When all we wanna do is a-rock and roll"
For me, if you go to a more accurate usage, like "we're a-rocking and a-rolling," it feels like too much, like a #HankWilliams song.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/track/68lAwyltMYzUg3D5SF7M40?si=66f6fcdd00f34283
#languagechange #sociolinguistics #morphology #syntax #metal #country
Rock And Roll (In A Black Hole)
Rob Zombie · Titre · 2013
The program for the workshop “#socialmeaning Berlin 2023“ to be held @zas_berlin (14-15/11) is online >> https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/staff/amyp/downloads/smib2023-program-web.pdf
(Participation is free of charge. Do not forget to register, see link in program)
#linguistics @linguistics @sfb1412
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CfP „#socialmeaning Berlin 2023“
Deadline extension: 03/09/2023
See:
https://linguistlist.org/issues/34/2547/@linguistics @sfb1412
LINGUIST List 34.2547 Calls: Social Meaning Berlin 2023
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Boosting this study simply because I love it!!
Morán Panero, Sonia. (2019).
“It’s more fashionable to speak it badly”: indexicality and metasemiotic awareness among users of English from the Spanish-speaking world
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“Se lleva más hablarlo mal”: indicialidad y conciencia metasemiótica entre hablantes de inglés del mundo hispano.
https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2019-2021
#sociolinguistics #ESL #EFL #socialmeaning #indexicality #recommended #read
“It’s more fashionable to speak it badly”: indexicality and metasemiotic awareness among users of English from the Spanish-speaking world
As ELF scholars warn us against treating linguistic productions of “non-native” English speakers as “errors” when they are sociolinguistically driven variation, it is necessary to investigate how speakers in Expanding Circle settings conceptualise, label and experience such uses themselves. This paper reports a qualitative study of the metalinguistic and evaluative practices of university students in Chile, Mexico and Spain. It explores how they ascribe (un)desirable meanings to different ways of speaking English as an additional language (i. e. indexical relations), whether these symbolic associations are seen to influence students’ own linguistic use, and the extent to which such indexical relations are theorised as inherent in language form or as symbolic and negotiable (i. e. metasemiotic awareness). The analysis of more than 53 hours of elicited interview talk reveals a complex web of available social meaning relations and multidirectional accounts of the effects that such meanings have on students’ linguistic and semiotic practices. Although many students display awareness of the contextual variability of social meaning-making processes (Coupland. 2007. Style: Language variation and identity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), only a minority were able to directly challenge dominant indexical associations and stereotypical trait attributions. The findings underscore the need for English language teachers to understand their students’ semiotic goals and interpretative repertoires, firstly to avoid discriminating against sociolinguistically motivated variation in students’ English use and secondly, to provide them with additional tools to negotiate their position as speakers of English as an additional language. The paper also reflects on the implications that these findings have for how we explain variation and attitudinal ambivalence in ELF research.
Joshua McNeill
Antonio Machicao y Priemer
Lauren Hall-Lew