Identity and Dialect Performance

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction I. Dialects in Localised Delocalised Contexts 1. Nonstandard dialect and identity 2. The elusive dialect border 3. Dialect performances in super diverse communities: the case for ethnographic approaches to language variation II. Nation- States and Identity Construction in Relation to a Standard and a Dialect 4. The construction of linguistic borders and the rise of national identity in South Sudan: some insights into Juba Arabic (arabi juba) 5. From language to dialect and back: the case of Piedmontese 6. Darija and the construction of "Moroccanness" 7. 'Sloppy speech is like sloppy dress': folk attitudes towards non-standard British English III. Contact, Variation, Performance and Metalinguistic Discourse 8. From varieties in contact to the selection of linguistic features in multilingual settings 9. 'You live in the United States, you speak English', decian las maestras: how New Mexican Spanish speakers enact, ascribe and reject ethnic identities 10. The social meanings of Wolof and French: contact dialects, language ideology, and competing modernities in Senegal 11. The social value of variation in Tetouan and Ghomara (Northwestern Morocco) 12. New presentations of self in everyday life: Linguistic transgressions in England, Germany and Japan 13. Language and identity in Siwa Oasis: Indexing belonging, localness and authenticity in a small minority community IV. The Media, Dialect Performance and Language Variation 14. Youtube Yinzers: Stancetaking and the performance of Pittsburghese 15. Performing Scottish identity on Screen: Language, Identity, and Humour in Scottish Television Comedy 16. Identity, Repertoire, and Performance: The Case of an Egyptian Poet 17. Ruination and amusement - dialect, youth and revolution in Naija 18. Dialectal variation and identity in post-revolutionary Libyan media: The case of Dragunov (2014) 19. The effect of TV and internal versus external contact on variation in Syrian rural child language Index