Cité teens entextualizing French TV host register [Ressource électronique] : Crossing, voicing, and participation frameworks / Chantal Tetreault

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This article addresses data that reside at the confl uence of three types of linguistic "crossing" (Rampton 1995 ) among working-class French teens of predominantly Algerian descent. Strategically using the microphone of the researcher to imitate an elite French television show host, performers create indirect reported speech and direct stylized voicing for present peers and thereby mock them as show "guests." Through analysis of such data, this article contributes to scholarship that extends and refi nes Goffman's notions of footing and participation frameworks, and the relationships imaginable between them. It is argued that the notions of noncongruent voicing effects and generalized footing can lead to a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between language crossing and participation frameworks. More specifi cally, analyzing language crossing in terms of the resultant voicing effects sheds light upon the nuanced ways that speakers manage participation frameworks. (Register, crossing, footing, participation frame- works, voicing)