Broadcasting the skeptron: the upset of sociolinguistic closure in Swedish public service television
Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language
This article explores upset reactions to purportedly deviant language use in the newsroom of the Swedish public service television company SVT. Adopting a historical gaze to contemporary struggles, it focuses on the news anchor Dina Haddad (an alias selected by me for the sake of anonymity) and the injurious, bigoted complaints she receives from de...
