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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

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.