Metroethnicities and Metrolanguages

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 575-591

  Maher, John C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Essentialist ethnicity still mobilising for many; Ethnic ties in postmodern era showing resilience and revitalization; Language, society and performance; Markers of identity, race and place and speech providing people with a muscular sense of belonging; Metroethnicities and metrolanguages; Metroethnicities and metrolanguages oppositional by virtue of aesthetic placement; Metroethnicities, not a 'mix' of simple ingredients A plus B but a remix, habits of speech, milieux, dress, eating and personal associations being mobile; Metroethnicity less ethnicity and more 'ethnicity'; Paradigm shift undertaken by post colonial and 'third eye' studies of nation; Study of metrolanguages study of stylistics

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EID: 84885535935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324068.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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