Dissecting Heteroglossia: Interaction Ritual or Performance in Crossing and Stylisation?

摘要: As Coupland and others show, Bauman’s account of ‘performance’ provides a valuable perspective on speech stylisation across range public contexts. However, this chapter explores the limitations performance as window crossing in everyday practice, although recognising other frames well, it dwells instead Goffman’s interaction ritual, cross-referring to two studies adolescents England. In first, race ethnicity were controversial, other-ethnic styles was risky. ritual constructed urgent responses exigencies moment made them more acceptable. second, implies reflexive composure that is hard reconcile with informants’ experience social class an uncomfortable but only half-articulated issue, whereas sharp lens how youngsters used stylised posh Cockney register their apprehension ongoing stratification.