| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Studies in language variation,
1872-9592 ;
vol. 9
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Studies in language variation ; v. 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: style-shifting revisited / J.M. Hernández-Campoy & J.A. Cutillas-Espinosa -- Part I. Style and Scoiolinguistic Variation in Political Discours: Speaker design strategies in political contexts of a dialectal community / J.M. Hernández-Campoy & J.A. Cutillas-Espinosa; Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress: the foreign (a) vowel in "Iraq(i)" / Lauren Hall-Lew, Rebecca L. Starr & Elizabeth Coppock; Condoleezza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identity / Robert J. Podeson; Speaker design in Austrian TV political discussions / Barbara Soukup; Recency, resonance, and the structuring of phonological style in political speeches / Robert J. Podseva, Patrick Callier & Jermay Jamsu -- Part II. Style and Sociolinguistic Variation in Media Interaction: Parodic performances as indexical negatives of style / Jennifer Sclafani; Popular music singing as referee design / Andy Gibson & Allan Bell; Performing style: improvisation and the linguistic (re)production of cultural knowledge / Anna Marie Trester; Dialect as style in Norwegian mass media / Thea R. Strand / "Carry shopping through to the end": linguistic innovation in a Chinese television program / Qing Zhang. |
| Summary |
Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical stance-taking and identity projection. Traditional variationist conceptualizations of style-shifting as a primarily responsive phenomenon seem unable to account for all stylistic choices. In contrast, more recent formulations see stylistic variation as initiative, creative and strategic in personal and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
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Discourse analysis -- Political aspects.
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Mass media and language.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hernández Campoy, Juan Manuel.
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Cutillas-Espinosa, Juan Antonio.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Style-shifting in public. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2012 9789027234896 (DLC) 2011049142 (OCoLC)765882113 |
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Print version: Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel. Style-Shifting in Public : New Perspectives on Stylistic Variation. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2012 9789027234896 |
| ISBN |
9789027274878 (electronic bk.) |
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9027274878 (electronic bk.) |
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9789027234896 (Hb ; alk. paper) |
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9027234892 (Hb ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613469304 |
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