Variation, Language Ideologies and Stereotypes: Orientations towards like and youse in Western and Northern Sydney

IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Elena Sheard
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Abstract

This study analyzes the language ideologies of young people from two geographically and socially distinct regions of Sydney: Western Sydney and the Northern Beaches. It takes a qualitative approach to examine these speakers’ indexical orientations towards two variable linguistic features that occur in Australian English (like and youse). Although they have different histories in Australian English, like and youse are ideal for the study of language ideologies as both have been subjected to substantial negative social commentary in Australia and other parts of the world. As language ideologies are difficult to measure quantitatively, this study uses the model of indexical fields. Speakers’ indexical orientations are found to differ according to where they are situated within Sydney's socio-regional space, leading to inversed self-evaluations of usage across the two regions. A majority of Western Sydney speakers claim to use youse while a majority of those from Northern Beaches claim to not, and vice versa for like. Interestingly, this does not fully correspond with their actual usage of these features. The construction of indexical fields based on participants’ meta-pragmatic commentary on these features ultimately demonstrates that language features can be re-evaluated and assigned local meaning(s), and contribute to stereotypes.
变异、语言意识形态和刻板印象:悉尼西部和北部的“喜欢”和“你”取向
本研究分析了悉尼两个地理和社会不同地区的年轻人的语言意识形态:西悉尼和北海滩。采用定性的方法来考察这些说话者对澳大利亚英语中出现的两个可变语言特征(like和youse)的索引取向。尽管他们在澳大利亚英语中有着不同的历史,但like和youse是研究语言意识形态的理想之选,因为他们在澳大利亚和世界其他地区都受到了大量负面的社会评论。由于语言意识形态难以定量衡量,本研究采用了指数场模型。研究发现,说话者的指数取向因其在悉尼社会区域空间内的位置而异,导致对两个区域使用情况的自我评价相反。大多数说西悉尼语的人声称使用youse,而大多数来自北部海滩的人则声称不使用,反之亦然。有趣的是,这与他们对这些功能的实际使用并不完全一致。基于参与者对这些特征的元语用评论构建的索引域最终表明,语言特征可以被重新评估和赋予局部意义,并有助于形成刻板印象。
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