Annotated bibliography
Sample from Chad’s own workGumperz, John J. 2001. Interactional sociolinguistics: a personal Citation
perspective. In D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen, and H. Hamilton (eds.) The
Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell 215-228.
Gumperz reflects on his work since the 1970s, which he says started with hiscode-switching work. He describes both the insights of interactionalsociolinguistics, and how he came to the theory.

SummaryHe writes, “On the one hand are those who regard communicative practices as
shaped by habitus… Others take a more constructivist approach…”(p. 218). Thisis similar to my 2006 division of code switching literature into identity versus
interaction traditions (markedness was my third). Interactional sociolinguistics
is his attempt to bring the two traditions together.

My
Gumperz’s work is fundamental and this is a good overview. His comments on
the most recent stuff (since 1998) is less relevant.
evaluation

Blommaert, Jan. 2009. Language, asylum, and the national order.Citation
Current Anthropology 50(4), 415-441.
A man’s refugee application was rejected by the UK Home office on the basisthat he did not appear to be Rwandan. He spoke English but was not fluent inKinyarwanda or French. His only schooling was in Kenya, where his motherworked. Blommaert argues that the Home Office embraces a monoglot-standard
ideology (Silverstein 1996), and that it is not unusual that a boy who grew up inSummary
a civil war should have a linguistic repertoire that differs from normative
nationalist expectations.
Blommaert challenges sociolinguists to deal with complicated political issues,Mybeyond theories of language and social structures. Work on code switching andevaluation
face-to-face discourse is part of a tradition that pays attention to the placeoflanguage practice in social problems.

Jacquemet, Marco. 2005. Transidiomatic practices: language and powerin the age of globalization. Language & Communication 25, 257-277.
Year
JournalPages
He divides globalization-talkinto twomain namemetaphors: flows and spreads.
Volume (eg. Appadurai,Author’s
Article title
Flows arename
the preferred metaphorof pro-globalization discourses
Hannerz); flows are discontinuous, filling a space, and can be engaged oravoided. Spreads are the metaphor of Marxist or critical discourses (eg. Tsing,Abu-Lugod); spreads envelop, homogenize, and smother.

Usea stylereductive.
appropriate
to yourfield.
This strikes meas oddly
He accusesothersof “crude Manichaen
Summaryterms”, but he’s the one dividing the literature into two parts. It’s also weird thatMy
most of the spread work he cites by sociolinguists was published in the 1970s
Whicheverstyleofyou
use, be consistent.
evaluation
and 80s. He notes
a huge swath
anthropology
literature from the 1990s
and2000s [that uses the flow metaphor] as “some exceptions”.

Young, Vershawn. 2004. Your average nigga. College Composition
andCitation
Communication 55(4), 693-715.
Personal reflection on Young’s role as one of the few black instructors at acollege in Chicago. Young questions why, despite his high education, his trouble
getting and keeping a job mirrors economic struggles of many working-class
Summary
African Americans. The paper apparently introduced the term “code mesher”,
Mythough the word only appears once and “code switching” is frequent. evaluation“In his paper, Cam writes that ‘Your average nigga in the ghetto is given 5 words
at birth’ that he is fated to recite for the rest of his life. ‘These 5 words’
constitute the ghetto newborn’s lifelong defense plan that is guaranteed to ‘gethim or her through every problem they face. These five words are “I don’t give afuck!’” Cam’swords recalled for me Kermit Campbell’s study of papers by
Quotation;might‘black inner city’ male students who were natural code meshers, mixing ‘popular
use instreet
myslang’paperwith academic discourse in their essays. Campbell’s students’language habits didn’t surprise him, nor did Cam’s trouble me.” (p. 701)

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