Variation in an English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Study
Variation in an English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Study
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英语方言的变异：社会语言学研究
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1984
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Jenny Cheshire
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Timothy C. Frazer;Jenny Cheshire
一个人公开的自我. . . .使用声音，制造噪音，被认为是在群体中占有一席之地”（第126-127页）。亚伯拉罕的表演理论引人入胜，他对西印度群岛表演的描述敏感而富有启发性。但是，我仍然不相信，在西印度群岛的表演风格中如此突出的“噪音”和开玩笑的反击，必须被视为非洲的保留。这一假设既没有政治上的成效，也没有排除所有其他假设的证据支持。沿着明茨（第43页）的思路，更可取的是，西印度社会生活的喧闹和笑声是一个被系统地剥夺了所有权力的民族唯一可用的权力游戏。西印度笑声是唯一强大的力量，足以维系被相互抗衡的力量紧紧粘在一起的社会生活。
of one’s public self. . . . Using the voice, making noise, is regarded as taking one’s place in the group” (pp. 126-127). Abrahams’s performance theory is appealing, and his descriptions of West Indian performances are sensitive and revealing. But, I remain unconvinced that “noise” and the joking riposte, which figure so prominently in the West Indian style of performing, must be regarded as African retentions. This hypothesis is neither politically productive nor supported by evidence to the exclusion of all other hypotheses. It is more desirable to argue, along the lines of Mintz (p. 43), that the noise and laughter of West Indian social life are the only power plays available to a people who have been systematically deprived of all power. West Indian laughter is the only force powerful enough to hold together a social life that is cleaved to the core by countervailing forces.