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Language Style as Identity Construction: A Footing and Framing Approach

Kiesling, Scott F and Schilling-Estes, Natalie (1998) Language Style as Identity Construction: A Footing and Framing Approach. In: NWAV 27, University of Georgia (Athens, GA). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Despite the prevalence of conceptualizations of style shifting as a reactive phenomenon, conditioned by contextual factors such as formality and audience, style shifting increasingly has come to be viewed as a proactive phenomenon which speakers freely use to shape and re-shape context, as well as their personal and interpersonal identities (e.g. California Style Collective 1993, Coupland forthcoming). In this presentation, we suggest that an explanation for style shifting based on the interactional sociolinguistic notions of footing and frame indexing (e.g. Goffman 1981, Tannen and Wallat 1993) provides a neat encapsulation of some of the central tenets of these more proactive approaches, while at the same time addressing their limitations.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Kiesling, Scott Fkiesling@pitt.eduKIESLING0000-0003-4954-1038
Schilling-Estes, Natalie
Date: October 1998
Date Type: Publication
Event Title: NWAV 27
Event Type: Conference
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Refereed: No
Uncontrolled Keywords: sociolinguistic, style
Funders: National Science Foundation (partial)()
Date Deposited: 17 Jun 2009 17:57
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2020 18:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2712

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