TadicWaringReddington2024
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | TadicWaringReddington2024 |
| Author(s) | Nadja Tadic, Hansun Zhang Waring, Elizabeth Reddington |
| Title | A critical M/CA examination of raciolinguistic ideologies in interaction |
| Editor(s) | Hansun Zhang Waring, Nadja Tadic |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
| Year | 2024 |
| Language | English |
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| Pages | 27-48 |
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| Book title | Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | A critical M/CA examination of raciolinguistic ideologies in interaction |
Abstract
One recent concept that has yielded illuminating insights about tacit racism in everyday interaction is that of raciolinguistic ideologies—ideologies which position racialized, non-white speakers as “linguistically deviant” (Flores & Rosa, 2015, p. 150; see also Rosa & Flores, 2017). In this chapter, we approach raciolinguistic ideologies from a highly nuanced, microanalytic perspective, examining how they are enacted and challenged moment-by-moment in institutional and ordinary interaction. Specifically, we explore how members of diverse sociocultural communities in the United States construct non-white English speakers not only as “linguistically deviant” but also as non-American. Our data come from a corpus of over 77 hours of video-recorded language-classroom and family-dinner conversations conducted primarily in English in the Northeastern United States. We show that participants orient to Americans as white speakers of a standard American English variety through formulating a set of naturalized assumptions. In this way, non-white and non-standard-English speakers are implicitly excluded from the American category and positioned as inferior to its “bona fide” members. Findings contribute to research on raciolinguistic ideologies and to the broader endeavor of raising awareness of how inequity is reinforced and how it might be challenged in routine interactions, in both public and private spaces.
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