Broadcasting the skeptron: the upset of sociolinguistic closure in Swedish public service television

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2021-0044

L. Salö

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Abstract

Abstract This article explores upset reactions to purportedly deviant language use in the newsroom of the Swedish public service television company SVT. Adopting a historical gaze to contemporary struggles, it focuses on the news anchor Dina Haddad (an alias selected by me for the sake of anonymity) and the injurious, bigoted complaints she receives from detractors by virtue of speaking Swedish with a foreign accent. Through historical contextualization, the article casts Swedish public service television as a system of sociolinguistic closure, sustained through individual and institutional efforts of correction. Conceptually, it invokes the image of the skeptron to illustrate how linguistic authority is exerted through an interplay between delegators and holders. Against this backdrop, drawing on interview data and a selection of scornful emails, Haddad’s broadcast appearance is grasped as indexing the symbolic recognition of unsolicited change. Her foreign accent is perceived as revealing the countervailing upset of sociolinguistic closure, sanctioned by the establishment. For detractors, this is at once a critique against the skeptron-delegator, SVT, and the skeptron-bearer, Haddad. While the verbal attacks she receives are more about social change than language per se, I argue that the efficacy of producing linguistic complaints pertains to SVT’s historical role in sustaining doctrines of correctness.

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放送谎言：瑞典公共服务电视台社会语言学封闭的颠覆

摘要本文探讨了瑞典公共服务电视公司SVT新闻编辑室对据称异常语言使用的不安反应。它以历史的眼光审视当代的斗争，重点关注新闻主播迪娜·哈达德（我为了匿名而选择了一个化名），以及她因操着外国口音的瑞典语而受到诽谤者的伤害和偏执的抱怨。通过历史语境，文章将瑞典公共服务电视视为一个社会语言学封闭的系统，通过个人和机构的矫正努力得以维持。从概念上讲，它引用了skeptron的图像来说明语言权威是如何通过委托人和持有者之间的相互作用来发挥的。在这种背景下，根据采访数据和一些轻蔑的电子邮件，哈达德的广播露面被认为是对主动改变的象征性认可。她的外国口音被认为揭示了社会语言学封闭的反作用，这得到了当权派的认可。对于批评者来说，这既是对骗子委托人SVT和骗子持有者哈达德的批评。虽然她受到的言语攻击更多的是关于社会变革，而不是语言本身，但我认为，产生语言抱怨的功效与SVT在维持正确性学说方面的历史作用有关。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.