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Cité teens entextualizing French TV host register: Crossing, voicing, and participation frameworks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

CHANTAL TETREAULT
CHANTAL TETREAULT*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223cmtetrea@uncc.edu
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Abstract

This article addresses data that reside at the confluence of three types of linguistic “crossing” (Rampton 1995) among working-class French teens of predominantly Algerian descent. Strategically using the microphone of the researcher to imitate an elite French television show host, performers create indirect reported speech and direct stylized voicing for present peers and thereby mock them as show “guests.” Through analysis of such data, this article contributes to scholarship that extends and refines Goffman’s notions of footing and participation frameworks, and the relationships imaginable between them. It is argued that the notions of noncongruent voicing effects and generalized footing can lead to a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between language crossing and participation frameworks. More specifically, analyzing language crossing in terms of the resultant voicing effects sheds light upon the nuanced ways that speakers manage participation frameworks. (Register, crossing, footing, participation frameworks, voicing)

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Language in Society , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 201 - 231
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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