"Accented" French in Films: Performing and Evaluating In-Group Stylisations

Autor/in	Planchenault, Gaelle
Titel	"Accented" French in Films: Performing and Evaluating In-Group Stylisations
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 31 (2012) 2, S.253-275 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
Schlagwörter	Films; Pronunciation; Language Styles; Comparative Analysis; Language Variation; Social Bias; Drama; Ideology; Language Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Film; Aussprache; Sprachstil; Sprachenvielfalt; Schauspiel; Ideologie; Sprachverhalten
Abstract	By comparing two recent French films, "L'Esquive" (Kechiche 2004) and "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis" (Boon 2008), a realistic drama and a comedy, this article proposes an analysis of two different cases of stylisation that entertain complex relations of authenticity with stigmatised vernaculars, and in which actors stylise their own linguistic community. Discussing cinematic perception of non-standard varieties and the way spectators read into characterisation's techniques, it shows that awareness of any deviation from the norm is heightened by the media and taken as meaningful to the drama at play. Finally, it is argued that an ideological shift takes place during the reception of the films and that second-order indexicality is interpreted as first-order indexicality. (Contains 12 notes.) (As Provided).
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