Fighters, Girls and Other Identities

Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club

AvLian Malai Madsen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analytically nuanced contribution to the study of contemporary sociolinguistic processes and identity practices. The author explores how the young participants negotiate their place in the social order, create and maintain friendship groups and relate to different social categories using the ecological descriptions provided by linguistic ethnography. The book will appeal to researchers of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, sport sociology, extra-curricular education and anthropology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:417 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Encounters
Antal sidor:217
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781783093984

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Lian Malai Madsen is Associate Professor of Psychology of Language at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests include linguistic ethnography, interactional sociolinguistics, language and diversity, youth language, leisure communities and education, popular culture, and identities, style and stylisation.

Recensioner i media

In this highly original and compelling study of contemporary urban youth language in a Copenhagen taekwondo club, Lian Malai Madsen looks beyond ethnic difference to focus on interaction and integration practices within the informal domain of a martial arts club. Malai Madsen shows the importance of understanding community labels themselves – girls and fighters – rather than externally imposed or assumed categories. A very important book that delivers a spinning kick to sociolinguistic studies of language and identity.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresList of TablesTranscription Symbols UsedAcknowledgementsChapter 1: PreliminariesChapter 2: Sports, Integration and ParticipationChapter 3: Girls, Boys and InteractionChapter 4: Youth, Language and Ethnic CategorisationChapter 5: School Orientaton in an Out-Of-School SettingChapter 6: PerspectivesReferences