Videos by Matthew John Hadodo
Presented at NWAV 50 held by Stanford University in October 2022 in situ, this video was recorded... more Presented at NWAV 50 held by Stanford University in October 2022 in situ, this video was recorded later for asynchronous viewing. The presentation concerns how linguistic and broader sociocultural features and practices are enregistered by Istanbul Greeks as distinct varieties spoken by distinct types of Greek people. Primarily, Istanbul Greeks view themselves as more cosmopolitan and sophisticated than other Greeks, including Standard Modern Greek speaking Mainland Greeks. I combined ethnographic and experimental methods (verbal guise) to explore how this type of enregisterment is localized to this specific minoritized group, and how different individuals' experiences with different types of Greek speakers, yields different perceptions and associations. As a result, we see scalar notions of social meaning as opposed to more global phenomena, wherein speakers' awareness is partially based on the salience of particular linguistic forms and their lived experiences with them. 10 views
Papers by Matthew John Hadodo
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Jan 12, 2023
Language users discursively circulate ideologies of identity, especially in stances taken while a... more Language users discursively circulate ideologies of identity, especially in stances taken while assigning social characteristics to enregistered personae. Previous research has demonstrated that with the Istanbul Greek (IG) diaspora, speakers use the emic terms of Ellines and Romioi to orient to or away from Mainland Greeks, respectively. In this paper, I discuss how IGs in Turkey relate such ethnonyms to linguistic features and how they rely on enregistered dialectal features to construct their ethnicity as Romioi in opposition to Ellines. These ethnonyms result in personae that are used stylistically, but in turn fractally (re)create differentiation into separate ethnic categories. Such sociolinguistic processes demonstrate how linguistic variation is socially embedded in a minoritized indigenous speech community. Studying variation in concert with ethnonym use shows how speakers add nuanced meaning to established identity categories and create new ones based on their lived experiences.
Journal of Language & Sexuality, 2020
Age is an under-analyzed variable in linguistic research concerning gender
and sexuality. We cons... more Age is an under-analyzed variable in linguistic research concerning gender
and sexuality. We consider these three constructs by examining diminutives as an index of gay sexuality in Madrid Spanish across two tasks. Although phonetic cues have received great attention, morphological features (e.g. diminutives) may also index gayness (Mendes 2014). Moreover, despite frequent usage across Spanish-speaking varieties, diminutives are primarily restricted to women and children in north-central Spain (Haensch 2002). In a diminutive reaction task, 53 Madrid residents indicated whether men, women, adults, or children were likely to have uttered diminutivized sentences. Mixed-effects models indicated that the number of diminutives and sentence theme significantly affected perception, and participants’ evaluations in a free response task corroborated that men using diminutives were considered effeminate, gay, and childish. Thus, even with sociophonetic cues removed, morphological phenomena create a gay percept. This study demonstrates how age ideologies inform indexicalization processes related to gender and sexuality.
Keywords: diminutives, sexuality, gender, age, masculinity, indexicality,
Madrid Spanish
ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟΥ ΜΙΚΡΑΣΙΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ [Bulletin of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies], 2015
From the Archive to the Field: A Report on Summer 2014 Asia Minor Travel Seminar: The Greek Ortho... more From the Archive to the Field: A Report on Summer 2014 Asia Minor Travel Seminar: The Greek Orthodox Christians of Ottoman Cappadocia
(July 20-August 11, 2014)
Conference Presentations by Matthew John Hadodo
A critical way of understanding how speakers connect their speech to social meaning is via metapr... more A critical way of understanding how speakers connect their speech to social meaning is via metapragmatic discourse (Silverstein, 1976, 2003). Metapragmatics can be understood as how speakers’ discourse connects ideologies to language forms via indexical relationships, and how individual social interactions reinforce macro-level social contexts, while macro-level contexts (i.e., ideologies around large social categories) reinforce indexical properties in local interactions. This paper analyzes metapragmatic discourse of Istanbul Greek (IG) to address issues of language ideologies in minoritized language communities.
IG is a contact variety of Greek as spoken by the few remaining IG speakers indigenous to Istanbul. Little descriptive research has been done on the dialect, but some literature describes aspects of the linguistic structure including phonetics and phonology (Papadopulos, 1975) and the lexicon (Zahariadis, 2014) as having incorporated more elements from Katharevousa than contemporary Standard Modern Greek (SMG). At the same time, IG has undergone its own internal changes absent in SMG, while also having been influenced by other languages and undergoing significant contact-induced change. Elements of IG have contributed to the historic development of SMG (Mackridge, 1985; Ralli, 2012). However, IG also has been influenced by other languages’ structures, including Turkish, French and other minoritized community languages of Istanbul, while also undergoing other internal change absent in SMG. As a result, IG contains many borrowings and influences from other languages in addition to certain archaisms and elements of Katharevousa.
Consequently, IG speakers attend to different types of dialectal features when evaluating their variety. Interviews with over 100 members of the IG community show that speakers attending to ideologies of linguistic purity reference contact-related features as having denigrated the variety, whereas those who positively evaluate cosmopolitanism use the same features to reinforce IG sophistication. On the other hand, IGs may invoke their maintenance of perceived archaisms and Katharevousa to appeal to IG being more “correct” than SMG. Similarly, IGs have both positive and negative attitudes toward SMG depending on what sort of ideological frameworks they attend to. Perhaps most interestingly is that despite more attested Katharevousa forms in IG, many IG speakers’ metapragmatic discourse reveal attitudes of SMG as being more “Katharevousa-like” due to the absence of specific contact-induced change. These, among other aspects of the historical development of IG, yield contrasting and occasionally conflicting language ideologies that showcase how language production does not necessarily directly correspond to attitudes of language use.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, 2018
Istanbul Greek (IG) is an endangered Greek dialect historically in contact with Turkish, French, ... more Istanbul Greek (IG) is an endangered Greek dialect historically in contact with Turkish, French, and other languages. While differences from Standard Modern Greek (SMG) occur at all structural levels of IG, speakers recognize lateral velarization as a defining characteristic of IG not present in SMG. A less salient difference between IG and SMG is the production of the affricate /ts/ as [ʧ] in IG. This study uses SMG speakers as a control group in comparing these dialectal features in two different IG communities: those remaining in Istanbul (IGs) and those who have moved to Athens (Gen1s). As high degrees of salience have led velarized laterals to index IG identity, IGs maintain this feature more than Gen1s who have shifted from this stigmatized production. While SMG does not participate in lateral velarization, this study shows some SMG speakers do produce [ʧ] before [u] and [o]. Subsequently, Gen1s have not shifted to [ts] as they have with laterals, due to the affricate being less divergent from SMG than the lateral. IGs, meanwhile, have not maintained [ʧ] as they have velarized laterals, as this lesser degree of salience has prevented the feature from becoming an index of IG identity. These results show that the salience of a dialectal phonetic feature relates to how it will be maintained in contact situations.
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Less than 2,000 Istanbul Greek (IG) speakers remain in Turkey, and the historically multilingual ... more Less than 2,000 Istanbul Greek (IG) speakers remain in Turkey, and the historically multilingual community’s status as an autochthonous minority ethnic group, with several distinct features yet to be explored in any major linguistic study, presents an opportunity to understand how linguistic
variation within an endangered dialect corresponds to linguistic identity and ideologies. Due to long-standing geopolitical tensions between Greece and Turkey, indigenous Istanbul Greeks represent a group with a unique cosmopolitan identity that is often viewed as existing between the two nation-states. One typical feature found in IG is the velarization of /l/
before back vowels. This study examines to what extent speakers with positive attitudes toward IG produce the allophone [ɫ], as opposed to those with more positive stances toward Standard Modern Greek (SMG), which does not have the allophone.
An ethnographic study was conducted in Istanbul with 46 adult IG speakers. The study directly investigated attitudes that IG speakers have toward their language as compared to other varieties of Modern Greek, particularly SG. Tokens of [l] and [ɫ] were recorded from word lists containing /l/ in different vocalic positions, as well as distractors. After acoustic phonetic analysis, rates of these variants’ use were correlated to participants’ attitudes towards IG and SG to determine if those with more favorable attitudes toward IG were more likely to produce [ɫ], which many
participants described as a defining characteristic of the dialect. Analysis suggests that while language ideologies demonstrate trends, identity ideologies are potentially more predicative of linguistic variation. This study also adds to the literature to what extent members of minority communities align with their ethnic identity via phonetic variation.
Book Reviews by Matthew John Hadodo
Language in Society, 2019
Language in Society, 2017
Thesis Chapters by Matthew John Hadodo
The Istanbul Greek (IG) community is an indigenous minority group totaling ~2000 members. Due to ... more The Istanbul Greek (IG) community is an indigenous minority group totaling ~2000 members. Due to their specific geopolitical and sociohistorical context, the IG dialect has unique contact-induced linguistic features from Turkish, French, and other languages, in addition to archaisms and innovations. Because the IG community encompasses multilingual individuals who are ethnically Greek but nationally Turkish, they provide a unique opportunity to observe how identity is represented and circulated with language.
This dissertation presents an ethnographic and variationist sociolinguistic analysis of the IG community and their speech. Six months of ethnographic observation over 2016 and 2018 resulted in interviews with over 80 IG speakers of various demographic backgrounds. Sociolinguistic interviews elicited a range of dialectal variants from a range of task types. I acoustically measured phonetic features of IG that differ from Standard Modern Greek (SMG) from wordlist data and ran mixed-effects models along conventional linguistic and social factors. The results from these analyses show that a salient dialectal feature (velarized laterals) patterns as expected with traditional variationist research, but only with young females. Meanwhile a less salient dialectal feature (postalveolar affricates) does not pattern as expected regardless of demographics. Factors such as social networks and language ideologies do not reliably account for how these and other variables pattern.
These results are triangulated with metapragmatic commentary of IG speakers discussing their language. Metapragmatic discourse reveals specific social meaning attributed to these dialectal features and to IG holistically. Speakers appeal to chronotopic relationships with their language use and IG identity, which represents cosmopolitanism and urban sophistication that contrasts with SMG. IG speakers’ awareness of dialectal differences and qualities associated with such differences are then used to form characterological figures that reinforce an IG identity in opposition with SMG. Laterals serve as an index of IG identity for all IGs, whereas postalveolar affricates do not have the same social meaning, which aligns with how these features pattern in the community. As a result, the variation seen in IG cannot be explained by traditional methods alone. Knowledge of the specific IG sociohistorical context is important because social meaning is crucially what drives language change.
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and sexuality. We consider these three constructs by examining diminutives as an index of gay sexuality in Madrid Spanish across two tasks. Although phonetic cues have received great attention, morphological features (e.g. diminutives) may also index gayness (Mendes 2014). Moreover, despite frequent usage across Spanish-speaking varieties, diminutives are primarily restricted to women and children in north-central Spain (Haensch 2002). In a diminutive reaction task, 53 Madrid residents indicated whether men, women, adults, or children were likely to have uttered diminutivized sentences. Mixed-effects models indicated that the number of diminutives and sentence theme significantly affected perception, and participants’ evaluations in a free response task corroborated that men using diminutives were considered effeminate, gay, and childish. Thus, even with sociophonetic cues removed, morphological phenomena create a gay percept. This study demonstrates how age ideologies inform indexicalization processes related to gender and sexuality.
Keywords: diminutives, sexuality, gender, age, masculinity, indexicality,
Madrid Spanish
(July 20-August 11, 2014)
Conference Presentations by Matthew John Hadodo
IG is a contact variety of Greek as spoken by the few remaining IG speakers indigenous to Istanbul. Little descriptive research has been done on the dialect, but some literature describes aspects of the linguistic structure including phonetics and phonology (Papadopulos, 1975) and the lexicon (Zahariadis, 2014) as having incorporated more elements from Katharevousa than contemporary Standard Modern Greek (SMG). At the same time, IG has undergone its own internal changes absent in SMG, while also having been influenced by other languages and undergoing significant contact-induced change. Elements of IG have contributed to the historic development of SMG (Mackridge, 1985; Ralli, 2012). However, IG also has been influenced by other languages’ structures, including Turkish, French and other minoritized community languages of Istanbul, while also undergoing other internal change absent in SMG. As a result, IG contains many borrowings and influences from other languages in addition to certain archaisms and elements of Katharevousa.
Consequently, IG speakers attend to different types of dialectal features when evaluating their variety. Interviews with over 100 members of the IG community show that speakers attending to ideologies of linguistic purity reference contact-related features as having denigrated the variety, whereas those who positively evaluate cosmopolitanism use the same features to reinforce IG sophistication. On the other hand, IGs may invoke their maintenance of perceived archaisms and Katharevousa to appeal to IG being more “correct” than SMG. Similarly, IGs have both positive and negative attitudes toward SMG depending on what sort of ideological frameworks they attend to. Perhaps most interestingly is that despite more attested Katharevousa forms in IG, many IG speakers’ metapragmatic discourse reveal attitudes of SMG as being more “Katharevousa-like” due to the absence of specific contact-induced change. These, among other aspects of the historical development of IG, yield contrasting and occasionally conflicting language ideologies that showcase how language production does not necessarily directly correspond to attitudes of language use.
variation within an endangered dialect corresponds to linguistic identity and ideologies. Due to long-standing geopolitical tensions between Greece and Turkey, indigenous Istanbul Greeks represent a group with a unique cosmopolitan identity that is often viewed as existing between the two nation-states. One typical feature found in IG is the velarization of /l/
before back vowels. This study examines to what extent speakers with positive attitudes toward IG produce the allophone [ɫ], as opposed to those with more positive stances toward Standard Modern Greek (SMG), which does not have the allophone.
An ethnographic study was conducted in Istanbul with 46 adult IG speakers. The study directly investigated attitudes that IG speakers have toward their language as compared to other varieties of Modern Greek, particularly SG. Tokens of [l] and [ɫ] were recorded from word lists containing /l/ in different vocalic positions, as well as distractors. After acoustic phonetic analysis, rates of these variants’ use were correlated to participants’ attitudes towards IG and SG to determine if those with more favorable attitudes toward IG were more likely to produce [ɫ], which many
participants described as a defining characteristic of the dialect. Analysis suggests that while language ideologies demonstrate trends, identity ideologies are potentially more predicative of linguistic variation. This study also adds to the literature to what extent members of minority communities align with their ethnic identity via phonetic variation.
Book Reviews by Matthew John Hadodo
Thesis Chapters by Matthew John Hadodo
This dissertation presents an ethnographic and variationist sociolinguistic analysis of the IG community and their speech. Six months of ethnographic observation over 2016 and 2018 resulted in interviews with over 80 IG speakers of various demographic backgrounds. Sociolinguistic interviews elicited a range of dialectal variants from a range of task types. I acoustically measured phonetic features of IG that differ from Standard Modern Greek (SMG) from wordlist data and ran mixed-effects models along conventional linguistic and social factors. The results from these analyses show that a salient dialectal feature (velarized laterals) patterns as expected with traditional variationist research, but only with young females. Meanwhile a less salient dialectal feature (postalveolar affricates) does not pattern as expected regardless of demographics. Factors such as social networks and language ideologies do not reliably account for how these and other variables pattern.
These results are triangulated with metapragmatic commentary of IG speakers discussing their language. Metapragmatic discourse reveals specific social meaning attributed to these dialectal features and to IG holistically. Speakers appeal to chronotopic relationships with their language use and IG identity, which represents cosmopolitanism and urban sophistication that contrasts with SMG. IG speakers’ awareness of dialectal differences and qualities associated with such differences are then used to form characterological figures that reinforce an IG identity in opposition with SMG. Laterals serve as an index of IG identity for all IGs, whereas postalveolar affricates do not have the same social meaning, which aligns with how these features pattern in the community. As a result, the variation seen in IG cannot be explained by traditional methods alone. Knowledge of the specific IG sociohistorical context is important because social meaning is crucially what drives language change.
and sexuality. We consider these three constructs by examining diminutives as an index of gay sexuality in Madrid Spanish across two tasks. Although phonetic cues have received great attention, morphological features (e.g. diminutives) may also index gayness (Mendes 2014). Moreover, despite frequent usage across Spanish-speaking varieties, diminutives are primarily restricted to women and children in north-central Spain (Haensch 2002). In a diminutive reaction task, 53 Madrid residents indicated whether men, women, adults, or children were likely to have uttered diminutivized sentences. Mixed-effects models indicated that the number of diminutives and sentence theme significantly affected perception, and participants’ evaluations in a free response task corroborated that men using diminutives were considered effeminate, gay, and childish. Thus, even with sociophonetic cues removed, morphological phenomena create a gay percept. This study demonstrates how age ideologies inform indexicalization processes related to gender and sexuality.
Keywords: diminutives, sexuality, gender, age, masculinity, indexicality,
Madrid Spanish
(July 20-August 11, 2014)
IG is a contact variety of Greek as spoken by the few remaining IG speakers indigenous to Istanbul. Little descriptive research has been done on the dialect, but some literature describes aspects of the linguistic structure including phonetics and phonology (Papadopulos, 1975) and the lexicon (Zahariadis, 2014) as having incorporated more elements from Katharevousa than contemporary Standard Modern Greek (SMG). At the same time, IG has undergone its own internal changes absent in SMG, while also having been influenced by other languages and undergoing significant contact-induced change. Elements of IG have contributed to the historic development of SMG (Mackridge, 1985; Ralli, 2012). However, IG also has been influenced by other languages’ structures, including Turkish, French and other minoritized community languages of Istanbul, while also undergoing other internal change absent in SMG. As a result, IG contains many borrowings and influences from other languages in addition to certain archaisms and elements of Katharevousa.
Consequently, IG speakers attend to different types of dialectal features when evaluating their variety. Interviews with over 100 members of the IG community show that speakers attending to ideologies of linguistic purity reference contact-related features as having denigrated the variety, whereas those who positively evaluate cosmopolitanism use the same features to reinforce IG sophistication. On the other hand, IGs may invoke their maintenance of perceived archaisms and Katharevousa to appeal to IG being more “correct” than SMG. Similarly, IGs have both positive and negative attitudes toward SMG depending on what sort of ideological frameworks they attend to. Perhaps most interestingly is that despite more attested Katharevousa forms in IG, many IG speakers’ metapragmatic discourse reveal attitudes of SMG as being more “Katharevousa-like” due to the absence of specific contact-induced change. These, among other aspects of the historical development of IG, yield contrasting and occasionally conflicting language ideologies that showcase how language production does not necessarily directly correspond to attitudes of language use.
variation within an endangered dialect corresponds to linguistic identity and ideologies. Due to long-standing geopolitical tensions between Greece and Turkey, indigenous Istanbul Greeks represent a group with a unique cosmopolitan identity that is often viewed as existing between the two nation-states. One typical feature found in IG is the velarization of /l/
before back vowels. This study examines to what extent speakers with positive attitudes toward IG produce the allophone [ɫ], as opposed to those with more positive stances toward Standard Modern Greek (SMG), which does not have the allophone.
An ethnographic study was conducted in Istanbul with 46 adult IG speakers. The study directly investigated attitudes that IG speakers have toward their language as compared to other varieties of Modern Greek, particularly SG. Tokens of [l] and [ɫ] were recorded from word lists containing /l/ in different vocalic positions, as well as distractors. After acoustic phonetic analysis, rates of these variants’ use were correlated to participants’ attitudes towards IG and SG to determine if those with more favorable attitudes toward IG were more likely to produce [ɫ], which many
participants described as a defining characteristic of the dialect. Analysis suggests that while language ideologies demonstrate trends, identity ideologies are potentially more predicative of linguistic variation. This study also adds to the literature to what extent members of minority communities align with their ethnic identity via phonetic variation.
This dissertation presents an ethnographic and variationist sociolinguistic analysis of the IG community and their speech. Six months of ethnographic observation over 2016 and 2018 resulted in interviews with over 80 IG speakers of various demographic backgrounds. Sociolinguistic interviews elicited a range of dialectal variants from a range of task types. I acoustically measured phonetic features of IG that differ from Standard Modern Greek (SMG) from wordlist data and ran mixed-effects models along conventional linguistic and social factors. The results from these analyses show that a salient dialectal feature (velarized laterals) patterns as expected with traditional variationist research, but only with young females. Meanwhile a less salient dialectal feature (postalveolar affricates) does not pattern as expected regardless of demographics. Factors such as social networks and language ideologies do not reliably account for how these and other variables pattern.
These results are triangulated with metapragmatic commentary of IG speakers discussing their language. Metapragmatic discourse reveals specific social meaning attributed to these dialectal features and to IG holistically. Speakers appeal to chronotopic relationships with their language use and IG identity, which represents cosmopolitanism and urban sophistication that contrasts with SMG. IG speakers’ awareness of dialectal differences and qualities associated with such differences are then used to form characterological figures that reinforce an IG identity in opposition with SMG. Laterals serve as an index of IG identity for all IGs, whereas postalveolar affricates do not have the same social meaning, which aligns with how these features pattern in the community. As a result, the variation seen in IG cannot be explained by traditional methods alone. Knowledge of the specific IG sociohistorical context is important because social meaning is crucially what drives language change.