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Journal of Sociolinguistics
Resumen/Descripción – provisto por la editorial en inglés
Journal of Sociolinguistics promotes sociolinguistics as a thoroughly linguistic and thoroughly social-scientific endeavour. The journal is concerned with language in all its dimensions, macro and micro, as formal features or abstract discourses, as situated talk or written text. Data in published articles represent a wide range of languages, regions and situations - from Alune to Xhosa, from Cameroun to Canada, from bulletin boards to dating ads.Palabras clave – provistas por la editorial
sociolinguistics; journal; linguistics; language; society; identity; theoretical; empirical; discour
Disponibilidad
| Institución detectada | Período | Navegá | Descargá | Solicitá |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No detectada | desde ene. 1997 / hasta dic. 2023 | Wiley Online Library |
Información
Tipo de recurso:
revistas
ISSN impreso
1360-6441
ISSN electrónico
1467-9841
Editor responsable
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WILEY)
País de edición
Reino Unido
Fecha de publicación
1997-
Cobertura temática
Tabla de contenidos
doi: 10.1111/josl.12655
Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender
Mary Elizabeth Beaton
; Whitney Chappell; Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In this article, we explore how raciolinguistic parody functions in a society that hegemonically denies racial divisions. Through an analysis of Puerto Rican comedian Natalia Lugo's YouTube portrayals of her character, Francheska the <jats:italic>Yal</jats:italic> ‘welfare queen,’ we argue that covert racialization operates through a semiotics of respectability, whereby disreputable forms of femininity, class expression, and nonstandard language are co‐indexical with the <jats:italic>yal</jats:italic>’s failure to normatively “whiten” herself. We contend that US colonial narratives that scapegoat poor women of color for the island's poverty are reconstructed in Lugo's parodies by depicting the <jats:italic>yal</jats:italic> as provincial and excessive. Lugo's performative choices underscore the interplay of linguistic, material, and discursive elements that marginalize the <jats:italic>yal</jats:italic>, enabling parody without challenging structural inequalities. Our analysis sheds light on the ways in which semiotic practices reify such social hierarchies where they are systemically denied.</jats:p>
Pp. 71-93