Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens
| Qatar University
This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the stereotypically seen as leafy and posh northern suburbs and in the stereotypically treated as working class western suburbs of Athens coupled with data from popular literary novels, TV series and Greek hip hop music, it argues that the relationship between style and social class identity is mediated by complex social meanings encompassing features from and discourses relevant to both areas, which are structured across different orders of indexicality depending on the genre of speech in which they are created. As such, it will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropology, sociology, Modern Greek studies, and to everyone who is interested in how social class is constructed via language.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 57] 2014. xiv, 240 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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ix
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List of tables
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xi
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List of figures
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xii
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List of diagrams
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xiii
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Transcription conventions
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xiv
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Introduction
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1–6
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Chapter 1: Contextualizing Style and Identity in Socio-Cultural Linguistics
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7–34
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Chapter 2: Investigating Style and Identity in Contemporary Urban Society
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35–54
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Chapter 3: Athenian Suburban Speech and Stylistic Representations in Greek Popular Culture
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55–98
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Chapter 4: Athenian Suburbanites' Double-Voiced Performances as Identity Work
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99–140
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Chapter 5: Metapragmatic Accounts of Athenian Suburbanite Social Classes
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141–194
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Chapter 6: Towards a Fourth Wave of Stylistic Studies
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195–200
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Postscript: Social Class and Style in a Financial Crisis Context
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201–202
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Appendix A: Participants' profiles
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203–211
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Appendix B: Excerpt from Deka Mikroi Mitsoi
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212
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Appendix C: Questions in Ethnographic Interviews
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213
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Appendix D: Vp Hip Hop Artists' 'Answer' to Gucci Dress
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214–216
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Glossary of the Main Theoretical Notions Used in the Book
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217–220
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References
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221–234
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Index
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235–240
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“This book provides a fresh perspective to the study of style, social class and culture. I strongly recommend this book to sociolinguists in general and any one interested in culture, society and style in Greece in particular.
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Reem Bassiouney, The American University in Cairo
“This is a stimulating and scholarly addition to the sociolinguistic literature, and a compelling elaboration of popular attitudes to the abiding class stratification of Greek society.”
Christopher G. Brown, The Ohio State University, in Journal of Greek Linguistics, Vol. 15.2 (2015)
“The book makes a significant contribution to the field of Greek sociolinguistics and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the subjects of style and identity construction.”
Panayiotis A. Pappas, Simon Fraser University, in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, October 2015
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