Publications

Publication details [#61664]

Moore, Emma and Sam Kirkham. 2016. Constructing social meaning in political discourse: Phonetic variation and verb processes in Ed Miliband's speeches. Language in Society 45 (1) : 87–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience design | meaning, production of | phonetics | political speech | verb

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

In two political speeches of the old UK Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband (ED), verb processes, phonetic variation, and subject types are shown to co-act to enable ED to form a political persona reactive to ideological contrasts between distinct audiences.