[Somean] [Lingosu] Monday, April 15, 4pm: Lauren Hall-Lew (fwd)

Mon Apr 8 11:43:49 EDT 2013

Hi So Meaners!

Next week's So Mean will be usurped by the lunch with Lauren Hall-Lew.  If 
you'd like to join in the fun, let me know.

-K

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Subject: [Lingosu] Monday, April 15, 4pm: Lauren Hall-Lew

The Linguistics Department, Institute for Chinese Studies, Graduate Association 
of Chinese Linguistics and the Asian American Studies Program would like to 
invite you to:

From Exotic to Authentic: Chinese Linguistic Practice in San Francisco, 
California
Lauren Hall-Lew
University of Edinburgh

Monday, April 15th
4-5pm
Round Room, Ohio Union

If you would like to meet with Dr. Hall-Lew during her visit or join us for 
lunch on Monday 12-2, please contact kbck at ling.osu.edu.

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From Exotic to Authentic: Chinese Linguistic Practice in San Francisco, 
California

This talk documents how Chinese social practices became available resources for 
authentication and denaturalization (Bucholtz & Hall 2005) among non-Chinese 
San Franciscans, and one suggestive phonetic consequence of this. Despite the 
historicity of Chinese in San Francisco, the wider circulation of Chinese 
practices only became commonplace in the 1990s, following post-WWII 
desegregation (Yung 2006) and the establishment of San Francisco's 'New 
Chinatown' neighborhoods (Laguerre 2005; see Ong 1999). 20th century 
developments in the local tourism sector (Light 1974), along with the growing 
accessibility of transnational movements and communications, further 
contributed to San Francisco's contemporary status as a glocal city (see 
Robertson 1995, a.o.) and the localization of formerly 'foreign' social 
practice. In this talk I examine how San Franciscans in 2008-2012 
retrospectively frame this social change through narratives of adolescence in 
the New Chinatown of the 1990s, specifically through discourse on the 'FOB' 
youth style (see also Shankar 2008; 2011). I then show how two of these 
speakers appear as unusual outliers with respect to their production of the 
COT-CAUGHT merger. I argue that their production patterns with respect to this 
sound change are indicative of the social changes they experienced in 
adolescence. I suggest that this is possible because the social change was 
accompanied by an indexical shift: some ethnic practices gained place-based 
meanings, allowing for their circulation among non-Chinese. These changes 
foreshadowed the contemporary challenges of late modern hybridity, and the 
analysis specifically draws attention to how the constraints on the circulation 
of ‘Asian’ linguistic capital are palpable for white San Franciscans (Bucholtz 
2011), but in ways that differ from the hybridity of Asian Americans (see Ang 
2001; Louie 2006; Shin 2012).

References:

Ang, Ien. 2001. On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West. 
London and New York: Routledge.
Bucholtz, Mary. 2011. White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity. 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bucholtz, Mary and Kira Hall. 2005. Identity and interaction: A sociocultural 
linguistic approach. Discourse Studies, 7(4-5):585-614.
Laguerre, Michel S. 2005. The globalization of a panethnopolis: Richmond 
district as the New Chinatown in San Francisco. GeoJournal, 64: 41-49.
Light, Ivan. 1974. From Vice District to Tourist Attraction: The Moral Career 
of American Chinatowns, 1880-1940. The Pacific Historical Review, 43(3): 
367-394.
Louie, Vivian. 2006. Growing Up Ethnic In Transnational Worlds: Identities 
among second-generation Chinese and Dominicans, Identities, 13(3): 363-394.
Ong, Aihwa. 1999. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of 
Transnationality. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Robertson, Roland. 1995. Glocalization: time-space and 
heterogeneity-homogeneity. In M. Featherstone, S. Lash and R. Robertson (eds.), 
Global Modernities, 25-44. London: Sage.
Shankar, Shalini. 2008. Speaking like a Model Minority: “FOB” Styles, Gender, 
and Racial Meanings among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley. Journal of Linguistic 
Anthropology, 18:268–289.
Shankar, Shalini. 2011. Style and Language Use among Youth of the New 
Immigration: Formations of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Everyday 
Practice. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 18(6):646-671.
Shin, Hyunjung. 2012. From FOB to cool: Transnational migrant students in 
Toronto and the styling of global linguistic capital. Journal of 
Sociolinguistics, 16(2): 184–200.
Yung, Judy. 2006. San Francisco’s Chinatown. Images of America. San Francisco, 
CA: Arcadia Publishing.
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