Publications

Publication details [#48613]

Wee, Lionel and Joseph Sung-Yul Park. 2008. Appropriating the language of the other: Performativity in autonomous and unified markets. Language & Communication 28 (3) : 242–257.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

economics | identity negotiation | ideology | language | performativity

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article explores how the appropriation of the language of the Other can serve as a resource for identity formation and discusses the influence of specific ideologies operating in autonomous and unified markets on the reception and evaluation of linguistic appropriation attempts.