Publications

Publication details [#60400]

da Silva, Emanuel. 2015. Humor (re)positioning ethnolinguistic ideologies: “You tink is funny?”. Language in Society 44 (2) : 187–212.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnolinguistics | humor | identity negotiation | language attitude | language use

Language as a subject

English, Canadian | Portuguese, Azorean

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Toronto's Portuguese market still bans most Portuguese-Canadian youth by scarcely licensing English use, bilingual code-switching, or ‘Azorean’ Portuguese. Youth thus may select YouTube for humorous sociolinguistic actions that playfully admit, process, and defy ethnolinguistic stratification.