{"id":2288,"date":"2012-09-11T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2012-09-05T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:00:43","slug":"style-shifting-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Style-shifting in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Style-shifting in public: <\/strong>New perspectives on stylistic variation. Ed. by <strong>Juan Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez-Campoy<\/strong> and <strong>Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa<\/strong>. (Studies in language variation 9.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. vii, 231. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/style-shifting-in-public-new-perspectives-on-stylistic-variation\/oclc\/765882113&amp;referer=brief_results\">ISBN 9789027234896<\/a>. $149 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p align=\"right\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=29502\">Richard W. Hallett<\/a><\/strong>, <em>Northeastern Illinois University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Containing an overview of current developments and perspectives in studies of stylistic variation and their applications, this book begins with <strong>Juan Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez-Campoy<\/strong> and <strong>Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Introduction: Style-shifting revisited\u2019 (1\u201318). This beginning chapter provides a brief overview of stylistic variation research and an outline of the chapters to follow. The remainder of the book is divided into two sections: \u2018Style and sociolinguistic variation in political discourse\u2019 and \u2018Style and sociolinguistic variation in media interaction\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Four chapters comprise Part 1. In \u2018Speaker design strategies in political contexts of a dialectal community\u2019 (21\u201343), Juan Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa offer a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the speech of the former president of Murcia (Spain). In \u2018Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress: The foreign (a) vowel in \u201cIraq(i)\u201d\u2019 (45\u201363),<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Hall-Lew<\/strong>, <strong>Rebecca L. Starr<\/strong>, and <strong>Elizabeth Coppock<\/strong> investigate the \/a\/-\/\u00e6\/variation in the second vowel in \u2018Iraq(i)\u2019 by members of the United States House of Representatives. <strong>Robert J. Podesva<\/strong>, Lauren Hall-Lew, <strong>Jason Brenier<\/strong>, Rebecca Starr, and <strong>Stacy Lewis<\/strong> investigate the Southerner, Westerner, African American, conservative, and careful dimensions of United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice\u2019s linguistic features in \u2018Condoleeza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identity\u2019 (65\u201380).<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting \u2018the importance of methodological interdisciplinarity in modern studies of stylistic variation\u2019 (82), <strong>Barbara Soukup<\/strong> focuses on shifts from Austrian Standard German to Bavarian-Austrian dialect in \u2018Speaker design in Austrian TV political discussions\u2019 (81\u201399). To show how style is phonologically structured, Robert J. Podesva, <strong>Patrick Callier<\/strong>, and <strong>Jermay Jamsu<\/strong> analyze the word final (-t) in the speeches of six prominent United States politicians: George W. Bush, Hillary R. Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Condoleeza Rice, in \u2018Recency, resonance, and the structuring of phonological style in political speeches\u2019 (101\u201317).<\/p>\n<p>The five remaining chapters constitute Part 2. Arguing that parody is important for investigating stylistic variables, <strong>Jennifer Sclafani<\/strong> examines parodies of Martha Stewart and Newt Gingrich, two well-known American personalities, in \u2018Parodic performances as indexical negatives of style\u2019 (121\u201337). In \u2018Popular music singing as referee design\u2019 (139\u201364), <strong>Andy Gibson<\/strong> and <strong>Allan Bell<\/strong> address the following research question: \u2018are New Zealand singers putting on an American accent when they sing, or do they actually find it difficult to \u201ctake off\u201d in the singing context?\u2019 (164).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Marie Trester<\/strong> examines the style of dialect performance in \u2018Performing style: Improvisation and the linguistic (re)production of cultural knowledge\u2019 (165\u201384). In \u2018Dialect as style in Norwegian mass media\u2019 (185\u2013203), <strong>Thea R. Strand<\/strong> discusses her findings from her ethnographic fieldwork in rural Norway. Lastly, by analyzing a weekly Mandarin Chinese lifestyle-shopping program in \u2018\u201cCarry shopping through to the end\u201d: Linguistic innovation in a Chinese television program\u2019 (205\u201324), <strong>Qing Zhang<\/strong> discusses \u2018newly available stylistic resources that can be employed to effect new social dimensions\u2019 (222).<\/p>\n<p>This book will appeal to any linguist interested in stylistics, especially those working in political discourse and media studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Style-shifting in public: New perspectives on stylistic variation. Ed. by Juan Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa. (Studies in language variation 9.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. vii, 231. ISBN 9789027234896. $149 (Hb). Reviewed by Richard W. 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