ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis of short stories and citizen sociolinguistic data regarding the stereotypes linked to each of the three school types (lyceum, technical institute, and vocational school). These data come from internet sources and from group interviews with student participants over the course of the academic year. In this chapter, I consider how circulating discourses about the types of schools and the people who attend them have the potential to impact the decisions that prospective students make about which school to enroll in. In doing so, this chapter compares the interview data collected in Cittadina with the more widely circulating internet-based data and examines how they intersect with the development of figures of personhood associated with each type of school.
