TY - JOUR
T1 - Putting local dialect in the mix
T2 - Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge
AU - Doreleijers, Kristel
AU - Swanenberg, Jos
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - This paper investigates the role of local dialect forms and other semiotic signs in languagecultural practices on social media in the southern Dutch province North Brabant. Although dialect use is severely decreasing in this area, we find abundant dialect features in present-day media productions, but these are not simply some last remains. By conducting a qualitative discourse analysis of a carnivalesque music video (2020), we argue that non-linguistic resources and co-occurring dialect features are enregistered as recognizably ‘Brabantish’ for the purpose of indexing place-based identities. Moreover, we show that reproduction on TikTok (2021) takes place through recontextualization and indexical stance-taking.
AB - This paper investigates the role of local dialect forms and other semiotic signs in languagecultural practices on social media in the southern Dutch province North Brabant. Although dialect use is severely decreasing in this area, we find abundant dialect features in present-day media productions, but these are not simply some last remains. By conducting a qualitative discourse analysis of a carnivalesque music video (2020), we argue that non-linguistic resources and co-occurring dialect features are enregistered as recognizably ‘Brabantish’ for the purpose of indexing place-based identities. Moreover, we show that reproduction on TikTok (2021) takes place through recontextualization and indexical stance-taking.
KW - sociolinguistics
KW - dialect
KW - indexicality
KW - stylization
KW - enregisterment
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.002
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.002
M3 - Article
VL - 92
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Language and Communication
JF - Language and Communication
ER -