Papers by Martha S Karrebaek
Multilingual Matters eBooks, Dec 31, 2016
Language & Communication, Nov 1, 2019
Building on recent sociolinguistic and anthropological theories on authenticity, in this paper we... more Building on recent sociolinguistic and anthropological theories on authenticity, in this paper we take a sociolinguistic perspective on the construction of authenticity in a Copenhagenbased Bornholmian restaurant. Focus is on the tensions between different understandings of authenticity in the creation of a new predinner drink. Data include interactions between owner and staff where ingredients, serving, and glass design are negotiated, all connected to the general aim of creating a recognizable Bornholmian product. Through detailed discourse analyses it is shown how the potentiality of authenticity is created backstage in a contemporary commercial enterprise, and how understandings of authenticity as inherent quality or performed are not necessarily mutually excluding, but rather co-existing in contemporary commercial cultural encounters.
NyS, May 22, 2020
Børn i Danmark i dag møder sproglige ressourcer, som knyttes til forskellige måder at tale på; ’d... more Børn i Danmark i dag møder sproglige ressourcer, som knyttes til forskellige måder at tale på; ’dansk’, ’arabisk’ eller den måde, man taler på med vennerne. Dermed er sproglig diversitet et (hverdags)faktum. Hvad det betyder for såvel udviklingen af dansk som for sprogbrugerne selv, er et væsentligt spørgsmål. I en social tilgang til sprog inddrages mere end ét semantisk niveau i betydningsanalysen. Aktiviteter, domæner og de forhandlinger, der foregår gennem og i forhold til sprog, er væsentlige for, hvad sproget kommer til at betyde. I denne artikel vil jeg bidrage til diskussionen af relationen mellem sociolingvistisk sprogforandring og børns situerede sproglige møder. Jeg undersøger sprogi- brug hos børn i en ret almindelig københavnsk skoleklasse med elever fra forskellige sociale, etniske og sproglige baggrunde fra 0. til 4. klasse. En dreng med dansk baggrund er den centrale deltager. Fokus er på den ideologiske og metapragmatiske forståelse af sproglige ressourcer, der associeres med ikke-dansk. Bidraget anvender et begrebsapparat fra den lingvistiske antropologi såsom registergørelse, indeksikalitet, det komplette sproglige faktum og forskelsskabende akser. Data inkluderer optagelser af hverdagsliv og mere eliciteret sprog-i-brug.
NyS, Jun 29, 2020
Children in contemporary Denmark encounter linguistic resources that are linked to different ways... more Children in contemporary Denmark encounter linguistic resources that are linked to different ways of speaking; Danish, Arabic, or the way you talk to your friends. In this way, linguistic diversity is an everyday fact. What this means for the development of Danish for the language user is an important question. In a social approach to language, meaning involves more than semantics. Activities, domains, and the negotiations that take place via and in relation to language are essential for the analysis of what 'language' means. In this article, I contribute to the discussion of the relationship between sociolinguistic language change and children's situated language encounters. I examine language-in-use among children in a fairly ordinary Copenhagen school class with students from different social, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds from 0 to 4th grade. The central participant is a boy with a Danish background. My focus is on the ideological and metapragmatic understanding of linguistic resources associated with non-Danish(-ness). My analysis uses a conceptual apparatus of linguistic anthropology such as enregisterment, indexicality, the total linguistic fact, and axes of differentiation. Data include recordings of everyday life and more elicited language-in-use.
NyS, Sep 2, 2012
Udgivet af: NyS i samarbejde med Dansk Sprognaevn URL: www.nys.dk © NyS og artiklens forfatter B ... more Udgivet af: NyS i samarbejde med Dansk Sprognaevn URL: www.nys.dk © NyS og artiklens forfatter B Betingelser for brug af denne artikel Denne artikel er omfattet af ophavsretsloven, og der må citeres fra den. Følgende betingelser skal dog vaere opfyldt: • Citatet skal vaere i overensstemmelse med "god skik" • Der må kun citeres "i det omfang, som betinges af formålet" • Ophavsmanden til teksten skal krediteres, og kilden skal angives, jf. ovenstående bibliografiske oplysninger.
Multilingual Matters eBooks, Dec 31, 2019
Language & Communication
n interpreter-mediated encounters, one participant's contributions are multivoiced, other... more n interpreter-mediated encounters, one participant's contributions are multivoiced, other participants' contributions are collectively produced, as the interpreter mediates their words. It is interesting what mediation does to their voice, and even more relevant if participants speak in ways deviating from local norms. This paper offers a case study of an interpreter-mediated court meeting. I discuss how a courtroom interpreter handles the accused's contributions, what consequences the interpreter's choices have, and what it adds to our understanding of voice. I argue that speaking and being heard “in one's own terms” is not necessarily the most beneficial to less powerful institutional participants.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
This paper discusses a disturbance to the Danish legal system, a cornerstone in the state of law.... more This paper discusses a disturbance to the Danish legal system, a cornerstone in the state of law. We focus on ‘expressions of upset’ during a reorganization of Danish legal interpreting, which was followed closely by the Danish media. We analyze these expressions as ‘communicative uptakes’ and we discuss how they made different elements of the interpreting affair salient. The elements include assumptions about what legal interpreting is or should be, its societal role and relevance. We argue that the uptakes integrated the interpreting situation with the institutionalized aim of the social space in which they occurred, and we draw on Agha’s theory of ‘mediatization’ to account for the relations between the overall situation and the various expressions of upset, and between the institutional roles of participants and mediatized aspects of the spaces. Data come from a trial, a meeting in the Danish Parliament, and a blog thread. The study thereby illustrates a communicative (thus, soc...
This contribution examines adolescent language use, interaction, and acts of identification on so... more This contribution examines adolescent language use, interaction, and acts of identification on social media sites. Our approach is sociolinguistic, and we show how the understanding of language users today needs to break free from previously well-established sociolinguistic notions such as languages as countable units. In the following we argue that hybridity in language use is not intrinsically deviant, that language users may have multiple belongings and identifications, and that linguistic ideology must be accounted for by researchers. We also demonstrate how notions such as registers, polycentricity, and (poly)languaging enable us to address the relationships between language users, language form, social goals, and normativity. The data come from three linguistically heterogeneous European settings, and all focus on hybridity and ethnicity
The Volume extends earlier work done on the concept of superdiversity from describing linguistic ... more The Volume extends earlier work done on the concept of superdiversity from describing linguistic and sociolinguistic complexity occuring globally to a focus on specific institutional and formal and non-formal spaces that come to adopted and adapted to infrastructures of globalisation
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2018
We interrogate the many ways that language and food intersect. Food and its uses provide setting ... more We interrogate the many ways that language and food intersect. Food and its uses provide setting and structure for language, just as language and its uses constrain and inform food activities. We illuminate where and how food and language co-occur and how they are dynamically co-constitutive, foregrounding the potential for food-and-language scholarship to contribute to understandings of political economic processes and structures. We organize our review around the mutual production, consumption, and circulation of food and language. We show that the richness of scholarship about consumption (especially around the family meal) has not been matched by research concerning the production of food and language, whereas the co-constituting circulation of food and language contributes to new meanings and values for both. More research is needed to clarify the surging attention to food, which may be motivated by the complex global food system and the speed and ease of mediatization and circ...
Multilingua, 2019
Although not often discussed, complementary (‘mother tongue’) classrooms comprise participants wh... more Although not often discussed, complementary (‘mother tongue’) classrooms comprise participants who differ substantially in a number of ways. Differences comprise, e.g. participants’ orientations to and understandings of the indexicalities of linguistic registers, which may have been brought along from the presupposed country of origin. It has local consequences when students and teacher do not share normative models, and students refuse the teacher as an expert authority. For instance, it may disrupt the classroom order and complicate processes of classroom language socialization. The societal context of the complementary classroom also has a potential influence on the local effect of valorized differences. In this paper we illustrate how pronunciation differences are made salient in a Turkish mother tongue classroom in Denmark, and how pronunciation feeds into negotiations of expertise, authority and the keying of classroom activities. Situated humorous performance is juxtaposed an...
Linguistics and Education, 2017
This paper engages with the notion of hospitality (Herzfeld, 1987; Pitt-Rivers, 1963) in order to... more This paper engages with the notion of hospitality (Herzfeld, 1987; Pitt-Rivers, 1963) in order to analyze and understand the practice of receiving visitors in two Farsi mother tongue classrooms in Copenhagen. We focus on visits by students' friends. Although uninvited by the principal teacher, he treated the visitors as guests and provided them with exercises and attention. We argue that the relational models of hospitality and of education do not unproblematically meet in or map onto the same situation. At the same time hospitality shed light on general challenges of mother tongue education, for instance that it needs to attend to different and potentially conflicting agendas in order to exist. Data come from a longitudinal fieldwork, and we use Linguistic Ethnography as our methodological approach.
NyS, Nydanske Sprogstudier, 2012
The article discusses the concept of accountability. The general assumption is that accountabilit... more The article discusses the concept of accountability. The general assumption is that accountability is a primal concern in language and language use. The point of departure is Harold Garfi nkel's defi nition in Studies in Ethnomethodology establishing accountability as a key notion in a pragmatist understanding of social life. The term designates the observation that social agents achieve their sociability by acting so that their doings display their own meaningfulness in a social context-thereby creating such a context (Garfi nkel 1967). The concept is discussed in three distinctive areas of language study. First, it is demonstrated through an ethnomethodological approach that any form of communication is critically dependent on participants' mutual recognition of each other's accountability. Second, some key notions of conversation analysis are demonstrated to be functional in such a perspective. The aim is to demonstrate that the turn-taking mechanics of talk-in-interaction may be conceptualized as methods of constructing accountability. Third, it is demonstrated in a functional linguistic framework how speakers' accountability is fronted in Danish sentences by such means as word order and the use of a particular paradigm of sentence adverbs.
Book of abstracts
Page 25. 25 Language use and language norms among and around young poly-languagers-Case studies f... more Page 25. 25 Language use and language norms among and around young poly-languagers-Case studies from the Amager project Lian Malai Madsen, Martha Karrebæk, Janus Spindler Møller, J. Normann Jørgensen, Andreas ...
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