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In:Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
John C. Maher
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 49] 2021
► pp. 7–22

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Chapter 1
Metroethnicity and cool

A theory of lifestyle identities

Published online: 27 May 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.49.c1

Article outline

The lightness of being ethnic: The creative ‘acquirement’ of multiple meanings
Cool: A swerving trajectory
Post-ethnic languages
The texture of language: Slang du jour
Empires of cool: Bilingualism and language learning
Ethnic reconstruction: Hybridities
Italian Ainu
The problems of ethnic romance
Metroethnicity: Decentering ethnicity
The principle of Cool