Warner 102: "You don't just mechanically repeat signature catchphrases. You perform through them your social placement."
You ideally seek "a differential stance toward the field of their circulation [...] performed stances can range from immersion to irony or aggresivity"
there is always some "affective charge: hipness, normalcy, hilarity, currency, quaintness, freakishness"
"What is called 'vernacular' performance is therefore in reality structured by a continually shifting field of artfulness in managing the reflexivity of mass circulation"
perhas "a folk or popular style in the 'appropriation' of mass culture," though Warner seems a bit suspicious of this take
"[T]he maintenance of this feedback circuit [...] often takes the form of humor," suggesting "that, as with all joking, there is a lively current of unease powering the wit"