Global Englishes, Rip Slyme, and performativity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3629633
AutoresAlastair Pennycook (0000-0002-4656-6187, University of Technology Sydney, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume7
Fascículo4
Páginas513-533
Data de publicação2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9841.2003.00240.x
OpenAlexW2169958587
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas184
Referências citadas31

In this article I suggest that while recent sociolinguistic work focusing on crossing, styling the Other or language boundaries is raising significant questions concerning how we relate language, identity and popular culture, these insights have largely passed by the sociolinguistics of world Englishes. This latter work is still caught between arguments about homogeneity and heterogeneity, between arguments based on liberal accommodationism, linguistic imperialism or linguistic hybridity that do not allow for sufficiently complex understandings of what is currently happening with global Englishes. Focusing particularly on rap music, I suggest that we need, at the very least, a critical understanding of globalization, a focus on popular cultural flows, and a way of taking up performance and performativity in relationship to identity and culture

Aesthetics · Globalization · Hybridity · Identity (music · Linguistics · Performativity · Political science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · World Englishes · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy