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dc.contributor.authorKytölä, Samu
dc.contributor.authorWestinen, Elina
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-12T08:20:22Z
dc.date.available2018-05-11T21:45:05Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationKytölä, S., & Westinen, E. (2015). “I be da reel gansta”—A Finnish footballer’s Twitter writing and metapragmatic evaluations of authenticity. <i>Discourse, Context and Media</i>, <i>8</i>, 6-19. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2015.05.001" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2015.05.001</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_24780258
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_66535
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/48312
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the ways in which ‘gangsta’ English features are deployed, evaluated and adopted in two types of social media, the web forum and Twitter, within the domains of hip hop culture and football (soccer) culture, from the dual perspective of authenticity and normativity. Empirically, we aim to break new ground by investigating the intricate interconnections between two social media formats and combining two highly popular but previously seldom connected cultural forms—football and hip hop. Our theoretical aim is to contribute to the current debate on authenticity, normativity, popular culture and social media, and the complex ways in which they are connected. We focus, first, on the Twitter writing of the Finnish footballer Mikael Forssell, specifically his uses of non-Standard English and references to hip hop culture and rap music, and second, on the ways in which Forssell’s stylized writing elicits normatively oriented metapragmatic commentaries, i.e., meta-level discussion, on a major Finnish football discussion forum. Of particular interest here is the emically emerging category of ‘gangsta’ English and its perceived (in)authenticity—when used by Forssell and two other (‘White’) middle-class Finnish footballers. Drawing on the frameworks of authenticity and sociolinguistic superdiversity, we foreground the tension between purist normativity and playful appropriation online. Our discussion highlights the unpredictability of the connections between language use, (popular) cultural forms, ethnicity, country of origin, and the complexity of mediation across online and offline sites of social action.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscourse, Context and Media
dc.subject.otherAfrican American Vernacular English
dc.subject.otherHip hop culture
dc.title“I be da reel gansta”—A Finnish footballer’s Twitter writing and metapragmatic evaluations of authenticity
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201601111063
dc.contributor.laitosKieli- ja viestintätieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Language and Communication Studiesen
dc.contributor.oppiaineEnglannin kielifi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEnglishen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2016-01-11T13:15:03Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange6-19
dc.relation.issn2211-6958
dc.relation.numberinseries0
dc.relation.volume8
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Elsevier. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
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dc.subject.ysoautenttisuus
dc.subject.ysojalkapallo
dc.subject.ysonormatiivisuus
dc.subject.ysososiaalinen media
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p11872
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p6409
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p21007
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p20774
dc.relation.doi10.1016/j.dcm.2015.05.001
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