Overview

Develops social constructivist approaches to style-shifting by bringing together research which suggests that people make stylistic choices aimed at conveying (and achieving) a particular social categorization, sociolinguistic meaning, and/or to project a specific positioning in society.

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Author:   Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy (University of Murcia) ,  Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (University of Murcia)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   9
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9789027234896

ISBN 10:   9027234892
Pages:   231
Publication Date:   07 February 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Style-shifting revisited (by Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel); 2. Part I. Style and sociolinguistic variation in political discourse; 3. Speaker design strategies in political contexts of a dialectal community (by Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel); 4. Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress: The foreign (a) vowel in Iraq(i) (by Hall-Lew, Lauren); 5. Condoleezza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identity (by Podesva, Robert J.); 6. Speaker design in Austrian TV political discussions (by Soukup, Barbara); 7. Recency, resonance, and the structuring of phonological style in political speeches (by Podesva, Robert J.); 8. Part II. Style and sociolinguistic variation in media interaction; 9. Parodic performances as indexical negatives of style (by Sclafani, Jennifer); 10. Popular music singing as referee design (by Gibson, Andy); 11. Performing style: Improvisation and the linguistic (re)production of cultural knowledge (by Trester, Anna Marie); 12. Dialect as style in Norwegian mass media (by Strand, Thea R.); 13. Carry shopping through to the end : Linguistic innovation in a Chinese television program (by Zhang, Qing); 14. Index

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