Airing Ethnic and Linguistic Identities Through Public Media Comic Performances
Challenging and Reinscribing Normative Ideologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4359794 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pedro De Moraes Garcez (0000-0001-8642-678X, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 40 |
| Pages | 90-100 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista da Anpoll (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1414-7564 • E-ISSN: 1982-7830 |
| Publisher | ANPOLL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18309/anp.v1i40.1019 |
| OpenAlex | W2470265508 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay discusses double voicings in heteroglossic public media comic performances of ethnic and linguistic identities. The objective is to show an example of how airing ethnic-linguistic identities through media comic performances brings to the open previously silenced, sensitive issues for necessary public debate, also providing a rich field for research on contemporary sociolinguistic questions. The example explored here is a comparative illustration, presented at an academic seminar, between the data analyzed by Jaffe (2000), featuring comic bilingual performances in Corsica, and comic radio and television performances featuring a German-Brazilian character. First, the multi-site, multimedia academic seminar course is introduced. Next, four illustrative videos, shown during the seminar presentation as a counterpoint to Jaffe's data, are described, two of which spotlight D. Heda, a fictional German-Brazilian comic character. Further material is examined here - an interview with the radio journalist who created and performs D. Heda, in which he presents his radio program as validating German-Brazilian identities. This is briefly contrasted with comments by a course participant arguing such humor is disparaging of German-Brazilians. Finally, in light of recent studies of similar heteroglossic public media comic performances, the tensions these performances may create between challenging and reinscribing normative ideologies are discussed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Art · Comics · Ethnic group · German · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |