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Jugendsprachen

Stilisierungen, Identitäten, mediale Ressourcen

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Sprachverhalten – von Kiezdeutsch bis zur Schreibstilistik von Mädchen auf Internetplattformen – gerät in diesem Beitrag zur Jugendsprachforschung als soziale Positionierungsaktivität in den Blick. Jugendliche nutzen ihr Wissen um kommunikationsstilistische Zuordnungen vielfältig, um sich als ein bestimmter Typus zu entwerfen, aber auch, um soziale Typen zu zitieren, zu karikieren und mit Zuordnungen zu spielen. Die deutschen und englischen Beträge dieses Bandes zeigen ein weltweites Spektrum. In vielen Ländern sind Sprech- und Schreibstile entstanden, bei denen Jugendliche Sprachen mischen und Regelverletzungen zur situativen Gebrauchsnorm einer Clique werden lassen. Junge Italo-Deutsche geraten mit ihrem Varietätenspektrum ebenso ins Blickfeld wie Studierende aus Ghana und SchülerInnen aus den USA, Dänemark und Georgien. Jugendliche haben in den Textsorten der sozialen Internetzwerke Schreib- und Bildstilistiken entwickelt, die nicht nur eigenwillig sind, sondern in ihrer Normferne wieder neue Normen konstituieren.

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Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2014. 406 S., 4 farb. Abb., 19 s/w Abb., 17 Tab.
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Race/Ethnicity, Religion and Stereotypes: Disparagement Humor and Identity Constructions in the College Fraternity

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Race/Ethnicity, Religion and Stereotypes: Disparagement Humor and Identity Construction in the College Fraternity

Chase Wesley Raymond

Abstract

The college fraternity is a socially complex organization on which comparatively little empirical research has been performed. The present study analyzes racial/ethnic and religious disparagement humor as used by the members of such a group of men. While previous explanations of these forms of humor in general American society emphasize self-censorship in diverse (culturally, ethnically, racially, religiously) settings, our findings show that the opposite seems to be true within the context of the fraternity studied here. In any given interaction amongst fraternity members, the more complex the racial and religious identity makeup of the participants, the more likely some form of disparagement humor will enter the conversation. Through an ethnography of communication approach, it is demonstrated that labeling and self-labeling of identity play a role in how this process is carried out, internal heterogeneities being highlighted as a means for (re-)creating the fraternity’s overarching homogeneous identity.

1. Introduction

(1) Paying Bills

If your reaction to the exchange above is one of shock and outrage, you are most likely not a current member of a college fraternity. Those same feelings of shock and outrage may be further amplified as you discover that, for those living within the walls of a fraternity, interactions involving various forms of ethnic or religious disparagement humor take place on a daily basis. But...

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