Alexandra Jaffe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Jaffe plays a role.
2017 Chapter 4.
Fuck in French: Evidence of “other-language” swearing in France and Québec Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts, Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton (eds.), pp. 87–105 | Chapter
2013 Sociolinguistic diversity in mainstream media: Authenticity, authority and processes of mediation and mediatization Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 95–119 | Article
This chapter explores the attribution of authority and authenticity to speakers of “accented” or dialectal speech portrayed in the American documentary on dialectal diversity, “Do You Speak American?”. The focus is on the role of mediation and mediatization in this fundamentally political and… read more
2011 Sociolinguistic diversity in mainstream media: Authenticity, authority and processes of mediation and mediatization Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 562–586 | Article
This article explores the attribution of authority and authenticity to speakers of “accented” or dialectal speech portrayed in the American documentary on dialectal diversity, “Do You Speak American?”. The focus is on the role of mediation and mediatization in this fundamentally political and… read more
2003 Misrecognition unmasked? ‘Polynomic’ language, expert statuses and orthographic practices in Corsican schools Pragmatics 13:4, pp. 515–537 | Article
Over the last twenty years, “expert” discourses about the sociolinguistic character of Corsica have shifted from a focus on “diglossia” to an assertion that Corsican is a “polynomic” language. In the context of language shift and efforts at minority language revitalization, these two discourses… read more
2000 Comic performance and the articulation of hybrid identity Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance, Pagliai, Valentina and Marcia Farr (eds.), pp. 39–59 | Article
This article describes how comedians and radio professionals in Corsica draw on a bilingual linguistic and metalinguistic cultural repertoire. In the context of Corsica’s history of language domination, language shift, and linguistic revitalization efforts, many of the products of language contact… read more