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Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach
- Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall
- SociologyDiscourse Studies
- 1 October 2005
The article proposes a framework for the analysis of identity as produced in linguistic interaction, based on the following principles: (1) identity is the product rather than the source of…
“Why be normal?”: Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls
- Mary Bucholtz
- SociologyLanguage in Society
- 1 April 1999
The introduction of practice theory into sociolinguistics is an important recent development in the field. The community of practice provides a useful alternative to the speech-community model, which…
Youth and Cultural Practice
- Mary Bucholtz
- Sociology
- 1 October 2002
▪ Abstract The study of youth played a central role in anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century, giving rise to a still-thriving cross-cultural approach to adolescence as a life stage.…
Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research
- Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall
- SociologyLanguage in Society
- 1 October 2004
The field of language and sexuality has gained importance within socioculturally oriented linguistic scholarship. Much current work in this area emphasizes identity as one key aspect of sexuality.…
Language and woman's place : text and commentaries
- R. Lakoff, Mary Bucholtz
- Sociology
- 2004
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a…
You da man: Narrating the racial other in the production of white masculinity
- Mary Bucholtz
- Sociology, Art
- 1 November 1999
Sociolinguistic research on the linguistic construction of identity has begun to attend to the construction of culturally normative, unmarked social categories such as whiteness and masculinity. The…
Sociolinguistic nostalgia and the authentication of identity
- Mary Bucholtz
- Linguistics, Sociology
- 1 August 2003
Sociolinguistic nostalgia and the authentication of identity 1 Mary Bucholtz University of California, Santa Barbara INTRODUCTION Although sociolinguistics has become a fragmented ®eld since its…
Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self
- Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz
- Sociology, Art
- 27 December 1995
Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on…
The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness
- Mary Bucholtz
- Sociology
- 1 June 2001
Mary Bucholtz TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness Anthropological research has shown that identities that are “not white enough” may be racially…
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