Stance and the construction of authentic celebrity persona
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2873608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary‐caitlyn Valentinsson (0000-0002-7283-7892, University of Arizona, corresponding author), Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 715-740 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404518001100 |
| OpenAlex | W2889294273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 21 |
The American performance artist Lady Gaga has earned great notoriety in the mainstream media through artistic and personal performance, as well as for her relationships both with her fandom and the media. In this article, I discuss the linguistic stance-taking moves that Lady Gaga uses in two different communicative media in order to construct an authentic celebrity persona. Through references to intimate relationships, inclusive plural pronouns, and demonstration of attention to fan conversations, Lady Gaga's Twitter posts create a stance of alignment with the 'ordinary' people in her fan base. Conversely, by using combative and corrective rhetorical strategies in interviews with journalists, she creates a stance of disalignment with mass media establishment. Together, these linguistic strategies allow Lady Gaga's claims to authenticity to be seen as morally credible. This work highlights the central role that language plays in constructing an authentic-seeming public persona. (Authenticity, stance, celebrity, Lady Gaga, media, interview, Twitter
Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library) · Fandom · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Order (exchange) · Persona · Plural · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy
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Doing being ordinary, doing being expatriate
Tourism and symbolic power
Rhyming style, persona, and the contested landscape of authentic Chinese hip hop
Modelability across time as a signature of identity construction on YouTube
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Doing being an average teenager
Stance and the construction of authentic celebrity persona
Persona
Old genres, new media
Fenómeno Lacava
Stancetaking in Discourse
Stance
The News Interview
Parasocial Interaction
Back in style
On doing “being ordinary”
The stance triangle
Natural histories of discourse
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Interaction Ritual
Being Yourself
Sociolinguistic nostalgia and the authentication of identity
Elephants in the room
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Through a Glass, Darkly
Seeing and Being Seen
Shadow Subjects
Celebrity Status
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |