Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males<sup>1</sup>

Lawson, Robert

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00477.x

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“…This involved observing students during lessons and break times in order to understand the social structure of the adolescent peer community in the school (see Eckert 2000;Mendoza-Denton 2008;Moore 2010;Lawson 2011;Wagner 2013 amongst others for a similar approach). Out of this process, I identified a number of communities of practice that characterised the peer structure of the year group.…”

Section: T H E S T U D Ymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Kirkham

2015

Lang. Soc.

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A B S T R A C TThis article examines how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class, and social practice. I focus on the realisation of the HAPPY vowel in Sheffield English, which is reported to be a lax variant [ɛ] amongst working-class speakers but is undergoing change towards a tense variant [i] amongst middle-class speakers. I analyse the acoustic realisation of this vowel across four female communities of practice in a multiethnic secondary school and find that the variable's community-wide associations of social class are projected onto the ethnographic category of school orientation, which I suggest is a more local interpretation of class relations. Ethnographic evidence and discourse analysis reveal that local meanings of the HAPPY vowel vary further within distinctive community of practice styles, which is the result of how ethnicity and social class intersect in structuring local social practices. (Intersectionality, indexicality, social meaning, identity, ethnicity, social class)*

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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Kirkham

2015

Lang. Soc.

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“…Johnston 1984). Lawson's (2011) analysis of communities of practice in a Working Class all-boys school in Glasgow found variation in CAT height, with the anti-institutional 'Neds' group showing a significantly lower vowel than the pro-institutional 'Schoolie' group. This point to a recursivity of social meaning (Irvine & Gal 2000), whereby a lower Scottish CAT vowel indexes some quality shared between a macro-social Working Class identity (Macaulay 1977) Linguistic Variation and Political Identity 10 and a micro-social anti-institutional stance (Lawson 2011).…”

Section: The Scottish and Rp Low Front Vowelsmentioning

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“…Lawson's (2011) analysis of communities of practice in a Working Class all-boys school in Glasgow found variation in CAT height, with the anti-institutional 'Neds' group showing a significantly lower vowel than the pro-institutional 'Schoolie' group. This point to a recursivity of social meaning (Irvine & Gal 2000), whereby a lower Scottish CAT vowel indexes some quality shared between a macro-social Working Class identity (Macaulay 1977) Linguistic Variation and Political Identity 10 and a micro-social anti-institutional stance (Lawson 2011). In contrast, a raised CAT vowel is associated in urban Scotland with older, Middle Class speakers, such as the now rare but highly stereotyped Morningside English (Johnston 1984;Romaine 1985), which has been a feature of Scottish varieties since the early 20 th century (Grant 1914, cited in Romaine 1985.…”

Section: The Scottish and Rp Low Front Vowelsmentioning

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“…In part because of this complexity, the Wells lexical sets considered in studies of the CAT vowel are often limited to TRAP and BATH (Lawson 2011;Macaulay 1977  A typical Scots speaker has been described as not distinguishing phonemically or allophonically between TRAP/BATH/PALM/START (Chirrey 1999;Macafee 2004 (Shuken 1984: 162), although 'both vowels have a wide range of variation in the front-back parameter', and on the Isle of Lewis, the contrast is realized in terms of duration rather than anteriority. PALM might also differ from START (Fabricius 2007: 296).…”

Section: The Scottish and Rp Low Front Vowelsmentioning

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Accommodation or political identity: Scottish members of the UK Parliament

2017

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“…Pronunciation and intonation variants have a straightforward role in the construction of a social identity for individuals, and particularly so for the youngest generations (e.g., Lawson, 2011;Mendoza-Denton, 2008).…”

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The sociophonetics of rhotic variation in Sicilian dialects and Sicilian Italian: corpus, methodology and first results

Celata

Meluzzi

Ricci

2016

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Citation / Cómo citar este artículo: Celata, C., Meluzzi, C. and Ricci, I. (2016 ABSTRACT: SoPhISM (The SocioPhonetics of verbal Interaction: Sicilian Multimodal corpus) is an acoustic and articulatory sociophonetic corpus focused on whithin-speaker variation as a function of stylistic/communicative factors. The corpus is particularly intended for the study of rhotics as a sociolinguistic variable in the production of Sicilian speakers. Rhotics are analyzed according to the distinction between single-phase and multiple-phase rhotics along with the presence of constriction and aperture articulatory phases. Based on these parameters, the annotation protocol seeks to classify rhotic variants within a sufficiently granular, but internally consistent, phonetic perspective. The proposed descriptive parameters allow for the discussion of atypical realizations in terms of phonetic derivations (or simplifications) of typical closure-aperture sequences. The distribution of fricative variants in the speech repertoire of one speaker and his interlocutors shows the potential provided by SoPhISM for sociophonetic variation to be studied at the 'micro' level of individual speaker's idiolects.Keywords: rhotics; articulatory sociophonetics; phonetic annotation; coda /r/; Sicilian. RESUMEN: Sociofonética de la variación de las róticas en los dialectos sicilianos y en el italiano deSicilia: corpus, metodología y primeros resultados.-SoPhISM (SocioPhonetics of verbal Interaction: Sicilian Multimodal corpus) es un corpus sociofonético acústico y articulatorio centrado en la variación individual en función de la variedad de la lengua y de los factores estilísticos y comunicativos del habla. El corpus está concebido particularmente para el estudio de /r/ en cuanto variable sociolingüística en el habla italiana y dialectal de locutores sicilianos. Las róticas se analizan teniendo en cuenta la distinción entre monofásicas y multifásicas, y la presencia de fases de constricción y abertura. Sobre la base de estos parámetros, el protocolo de anotación intenta clasificar las variantes dentro de una perspectiva fonética suficientemente minuciosa y, al mismo tiempo, internamente coherente. Los parámetros descriptivos propuestos permiten discutir ciertas realizaciones atípicas como derivaciones fonéticas (o simplificaciones) de secuencias típicas de cierre-apertura. La distribución de las variantes fricativas en el repertorio de un hablante y de sus interlocutores muestra el potencial proporcionado por SoPhISM para el estudio de la variación sociofonética en el nivel "micro" de los idiolectos.Palabras clave: róticas; sociofonética articulatoria; anotación fonética; /r/ en coda; siciliano.

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Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males¹

Abstract: NutzungsbedingungenFor review only. Confidential. Should not be cited. Journal of SociolinguisticsTitle: Patterns of Linguistic Variation among Glaswegian Adolescent Males

Cited by 38 publications

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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Accommodation or political identity: Scottish members of the UK Parliament

The sociophonetics of rhotic variation in Sicilian dialects and Sicilian Italian: corpus, methodology and first results

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Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males1

Abstract: NutzungsbedingungenFor review only. Confidential. Should not be cited. Journal of SociolinguisticsTitle: Patterns of Linguistic Variation among Glaswegian Adolescent Males

Cited by 38 publications

References 29 publications

Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Accommodation or political identity: Scottish members of the UK Parliament

The sociophonetics of rhotic variation in Sicilian dialects and Sicilian Italian: corpus, methodology and first results

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