Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Style and sociolinguistic variation in political discourse
5. Speaker design strategies in political contexts of a dialectal community 21
6. Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress 45
7. Condoleezza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identity 65
8. Speaker design in Austrian TV political discussions 81
9. Recency, resonance, and the structuring of phonological style in political speeches 101
10. Part II. Style and sociolinguistic variation in media interaction
11. Parodic performances as indexical negatives of style 121
12. Popular music singing as referee design 139
13. Performing style 165
14. Dialect as style in Norwegian mass media 185
15. “Carry shopping through to the end” 205
16. Index 225