linguae & litterae -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Authenticity: A view from inside and outside sociolinguistics -- 1 Authenticity: Some theoretical considerations -- 2 Indexicality and local meanings of authenticity -- 3 Authenticity construction in delocalised contexts -- References -- Language, society and authenticity: Themes and perspectives -- 1 Meanings of authenticity -- 2 Perspectives on authentic language -- 3 Authenticity and indexical meaning -- 4 Authenticity, style and performance -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Section 1: Indexing local meanings of authenticity -- The trouble with authenticity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Authenticity and variation -- 3 Ethnicity and the crowd -- 4 Linda and the crowd -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chinese social practice and San Franciscan authenticity -- 1 The Chineseness of San Francisco -- 2 A San Franciscan neighborhood -- 3 Fob style in the Sunset District -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Being more alternative and less Brit-pop: The quest for originality in three urban styles in Athens -- 1 Metaphors -- 2 The three squares -- 3 Subculture and late modernity -- 4 Lifestyle in late modernity -- 5 Metaphor and slang -- 6 The three groups -- 7 The linguistic styles -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- "100 % Authentic Pittsburgh": Sociolinguistic authenticity and the linguistics of particularity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The linguistics of particularity: Moving from etic to emic -- 2.1 Texts are adapted to the structural conventions of the language or languages they draw on, and they reshape these conventions -- 2.2 Texts evoke prior language and reshape the possibilities for future language -- 2.3 Texts adapt to their media and reshape the possibilities of their media -- 2.4 Texts evoke and reshape interpersonal relations.

2.5 Texts reflect and reshape the worlds they are in and the worlds they are about, worlds that are made of things and ideas about things -- 2.6 Texts are loud about some things and silent about others -- they evoke and reshape conventions about the sayable and the unsayable -- 3 Discussion -- References -- 'Oh boy, ¿hablas español?' - Salsa and the multiple value of authenticity in late capitalism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transnational indexicalities, linguistic authenticity and Language -- 3 Transnational language ideology: The case of Sydney Cuban Salsa -- 3.1 Historical and ethnographic insights into a global urban phenomenon -- 3.2 Ideologies of language and authenticity in Sydney Cuban Style Salsa -- 3.3 What's the use of authenticity in a transnational community? -- 4 Linguistic authenticity and reflexive modernity -- 5 Consequences of multiple authenticities for sociolinguistics -- Appendix: Transcription Conventions -- References -- Monica Heller - The commodification of authenticity -- 1 From the nation-state to the globalized new economy -- 2 Late capitalism and neo-liberalism in francophone Canada -- 3 Selling authenticity -- 4 Reinventing authenticity -- 5 Ironizing authenticity -- 6 Francophone citizenship and commodified authenticity -- References -- Section 2: Indexing authenticity in delocalised settings -- The race from place: Dialect eradication vs. the linguistic "authenticity" of terroir -- 1 Dateline: Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk -- 2 Standard and "dialects" in North America -- 3 Twenty-five years plus of fleeing "Noo Yawk" -- 4 Readers react: Two cents worth and then some -- 5 The ethno-geographical frames of "accent" -- 6 Themes and imaginaries -- References -- Reported Speech as an authentication tactic in computer-mediated communication -- 1 Phatic authentication -- 2 Cross-channel polyphony -- 3 Mediational barriers.

4 Reprojective authentication -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Authenticity in dialect performance? - A case study of "Cyber-Jamaican" -- 1 Introduction: Sociolinguistic authenticity in the 21st century -- 2 Jamaican Creole on the web: The "Corpus of Cyber-Jamaican" -- 3 Styling 'Cyber-Jamaican': Toward a digital ethnolinguistic repertoire -- 3.1 The anti-formal use of JC basilectal resources: The present progressive -- 3.2 Orthographic practices in 'Cyber-Jamaican': Respelling with -- 4 Authenticity from a folk linguistic perspective -- 5 Authentication in high performance -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Online Questionnaire: Patwa on the Internet -- From vernacular to digital ethnolinguistic repertoire: The case of Nigerian Pidgin -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical background: World Englishes - from localized lects to mobile linguistic resources -- 3 Nigerian Pidgin as a digital ethnolinguistic repertoire: Four scenarios -- 3.1 The web as a stage: Vernacular mixing and appropriation -- 3.2 The web as a classroom: Cataloguing and teaching pidgin -- 3.3 The web as a linguistic resource: Pidgin and netspeak features -- 3.4 The web as an infrastructure: NigP in digital interfaces -- 4 Discussion and outlook -- References -- Hybridity as authenticity in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On the notion of authenticity -- 3 Data analysis and discussions -- 4 Content analysis of NHH lyrics: Some examples -- 5 Linguistic analysis of NHH lyrics -- 5.1 The adoption of pseudonyms and the use of universal tropes -- 5.2 The use of a hybrid accent -- 5.3 The employment of global communicative strategies -- 5.4 The appropriation of African American vernacular English -- 5.5 Code-switching and the use of indigenous languages -- 5.6 References to local places -- 5.7 The use of slang expressions -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Discography.

Section 3: Authenticity construction in other mediatised contexts -- Authentic writing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Individual authenticity -- 3 Style -- 4 Collective authenticity -- 5 Epics and myths -- 6 Coda -- References -- Lexical variation at the internationalized university: Are indexicality and authenticity always relevant? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical background -- 2.1 A state of the art of the theory of indexicality -- 2.2 Delimitation of terms: Lexical variation and authenticity -- 3 Socio-political background: Internationalized universities of Denmark -- 4 Presentation of data and methods -- 4.1 Etic and emic data -- 4.1.1 Etic data and methods -- 4.1.2 Emic data and methods -- 5 Testing data on theory -- 5.1 Where the theory fits: The variability of associated social meanings -- 5.2 Where the theory does not fit: The importance accorded to referential meaning -- 6 Conclusion: The negligence of referential meaning in current theory -- References -- "Real communities", rhetorical borders: Authenticating British identity in political discourse and on-line debate -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Authenticity and nation -- 1.2 Authenticity in sociolinguistics -- 2 David Cameron's "real community" -- 3 Dichotomized discourse -- 4 Establishment and vernacular authenticity -- 5 Constructing rhetorical borders -- 6 Defending the border online -- 7 The legitimacy of vernacular voices -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- What's in a promesse authentique? Doubting and confirming authenticity in 17th-century French diplomacy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Authenticity as a matter of authority -- 3 Deceived by authenticity -- 4 Matrices and castes -- 5 Symbols and indices -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index.