nam a22 c 4500 silv.9/730010292 nljbp 250625085242.6 cr ||||||||||| 241222s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011049142 9789027274878 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P301.5.P67 306.44 23 CFB bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Style-Shifting in Public New perspectives on stylistic variation Edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (vii, 231 pp. ) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Language Variation 1872-9592 9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction / Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa -- Speaker design strategies in political contexts of a dialectal community / Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa -- Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress / Lauren Hall-Lew, Rebecca Lurie Starr and Elizabeth Coppock -- Condoleezza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identity / Robert J. Podesva, Lauren Hall-Lew, Jason Brenier, Rebecca Lurie Starr and Stacy Lewis -- Speaker design in Austrian TV political discussions / Barbara Soukup -- Recency, resonance, and the structuring of phonological style in political speeches / Robert J. Podesva, Patrick Callier and Jermay Jamsu -- Parodic performances as indexical negatives of style / Jennifer Sclafani -- Popular music singing as referee design / Andy Gibson and Allan Bell -- Performing style / Anna Marie Trester -- Dialect as style in Norwegian mass media / Thea R. Strand -- “Carry shopping through to the end” / Qing Zhang 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 interpersonal identity construction and projection, making a significant contribution to our understanding of this aspect of sociolinguistic variation. In this volume social constructivist approaches to style-shifting are further developed 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. Therefore, there is a need, we collectively argue, to adopt permeable and flexible multidimensional, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to speaker agency that take into consideration not only reactive but also proactive motivations for stylistic variation, and where individuals – rather than groups – and their strategies are the main focus when examining style-shifting in public. This book will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the areas of sociolinguistics, dialectology, social psychology, anthropology and sociology. Provided by publisher. Discourse studies Pragmatics Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel editor Cutillas-Espinosa, Juan Antonio editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027234896 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.9 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274878