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Peer Normativity and Sanctioning of Linguistic Resources-in-Use — on Non-Standard Englishes in Finnish Football Forums Online

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Dangerous Multilingualism

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Abstract

While the previous chapters in this volume have dealt with more institutionally constructed language-ideological discourses, this chapter shifts the lens to language ideologies at play on a markedly ‘grassroots’ level of language use. The sociocultural and technological context of this chapter is interactive, multi-authored discussion forums of the web that allow participants an extent of anonymity. Web forums are a distinctive format of computer-mediated discourse (CMD), most often a discourse domain with little institutional control, and thus relatively free of high-modernist constraints and demands for ‘purity’ of language use. Instead, late-modern hybridity, freedom of stylized expression, and identity play enable a different order of peer regulation and normativity, on which this chapter aims at opening a conceptual and empirical window.

Despite ambiguity, I have chosen to consistently use the British/European word ‘football’ to refer to the sport called ‘soccer’ in North America and some other parts of the globe. My most sincere thanks are due to the four editors of this volume for their invaluable comments on many earlier drafts of this chapter. Furthermore, Jan Blommaert deserves credit for coinage of the fitting term ‘Altanese’ that I deploy here. I would also like to thank Ari Häkkinen and Saara Leskinen for technical help with the data samples.

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  1. University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jan Blommaert

  2. University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Sirpa Leppänen  & Tiina Räisänen  & 

  3. University of Tampere, Finland

    Päivi Pahta

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Kytölä, S. (2012). Peer Normativity and Sanctioning of Linguistic Resources-in-Use — on Non-Standard Englishes in Finnish Football Forums Online. In: Blommaert, J., Leppänen, S., Pahta, P., Räisänen, T. (eds) Dangerous Multilingualism. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283566_11

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