Metroethnicity

Metroethnicity is an ‘aesthetic’ or ‘lifestyle’ theory of language and ethnicity proposed by the British sociolinguist John C. Maher.

The theory of Metroethicity rejects cultural essentialism, and heroic ethnicity, in favour of a hybridized form of ethnicity that is utilised for aesthetic effect.

References

Maher, J. C. (2005) 'Metroethnicity, Language, and the Principle of Cool'. International Journal of Sociology of Language 175/176: 83-102.

Maher, J. (2010). 'Metroethnicities and Metrolanguages'. The Handbook of Language and Globalization: 575-591. Wiley-blackwell.

Ethnicity

Related concepts

Ethnology

Groups by region

Africa Europe Oceania	Arab League Europe Australian indigenous Indigenous Oceanian Europeans in Oceania

Americas	Indigenous Canada Mexico United States Central America South America

Asia	Central East Northern South Southeast West

Identity and
ethnogenesis

Multiethnic society

Ideology and
ethnic conflict

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