Upspeak in British English

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

doi:10.1017/s0266078400009810

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“…This was a predicted pattern for the men (assuming an analysis of HRT as an affective device), and one that is consistent with previous research (e.g. Bradford ). What is surprising, however, is the stark difference in the types of new information HRT appears with.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Building on Britain's () analysis of HRT as a positive politeness device, Bradford argues that HRT serves two functions among young women in London. First, it acts affectively as what she describes as a ‘bonding technique to promote a sense of solidarity and empathy between speakers and hearers’ (Bradford : 34). In addition, Bradford argues that it also serves a referential function, working to emphasise new or important information in discourse.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender, interaction and intonational variation: The discourse functions of High Rising Terminals in London

Levon

2016

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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In this paper, I examine the different conversational and interactional functions that High Rising Terminals (HRT) fulfil among young, White, middle‐class speakers of London English. Data are drawn from sixteen small‐group interviews with forty‐two individuals (28 women and 14 men) aged 18–25. From this corpus, 7351 declarative Intonation Phrases were extracted, and auditorily coded for the presence/absence of HRT as well as for a variety of social, interactional and pragmatic factors. I combine quantitative and qualitative methods to demonstrate that while all of the speakers investigated use HRT to accomplish relational work in conversation, the specific interactional strategies that the feature is recruited to perform differ markedly across genders. I consider the ramifications of this finding for our understanding of ‘politeness’ as a gendered practice, and illustrate the importance of examining a variable like HRT in its discourse‐functional context.

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Gender, interaction and intonational variation: The discourse functions of High Rising Terminals in London

Levon

2016

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…The other displays do not carry an overt verbalization like this, but simply the statement with the raised rising tone to indicate the simultaneous provision of information and the verification of the addressee's comprehension. Bradford's display (see Figure 14) shows the very same feature (Bradford 1997). There is no drop in pitch between the intonation units; in fact, in this case, there is a very noticeable step up in pitch from the fall of prints to the head of the following pretonic like an elephant; the tonic highway rises from this raised pitch.…”

Section: The Semogenesis Of the High Rising Terminal/tonementioning

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“…It has been the subject of much investigation and debate since Ching (1982) and Guy & Vonwiller (1984), who describe the development of this intonational pattern in USA and Australia respectively. It has been reported in New Zealand (Allen 1990;Britain 1992;Britain & Newman 1992), Canada (James et al 1988;Watt 1994) and England (Bradford 1996(Bradford , 1997. It was also reported by Coupland (1988) in Wales, but not as HRT.…”

Section: The Semogenesis Of the High Rising Terminal/tonementioning

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Processes of semogenesis in English intonation

Tench

2003

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Semogenesis, the creation of meaning, has been promoted by Halliday & Matthiessen (1999) as a 'guiding principle' in their presentation of a systemic functional theory of language -that language has within itself the resources by which people can create new meanings. Halliday & Matthiessen illustrated three processes of semogenesis and used an example of English intonation to illustrate one of the processes, deconstruction. This paper proposes two other processes, blending and reconstitution, to account for three other developments in English intonation: the falling-rising tone, the so-called high rising terminal/tone (HRT) and the mid level tone for routine listing.

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“…A discussion of upspeak in Britain can be found in Barbara Bradford's article 'Upspeak in British English' (Bradford, 1997), in which she casts doubt on the popular theory that its increased use by Britons in the 1990s was due to certain Australian television soap operas. In the early 1970s, for example, some Britons in the public eye began pronouncing involve as if it were spelled invove.…”

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W(h)ither the /r/ in Britain?

Bulley¹

2014

English Today

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In sound recordings of British English from the first part of the last century we can hear some speakers whose pronunciation of the letter r, in words such as ring, bread and around, sounded just like a /w/. We know, too, from literary texts, that it goes back further. This article is about another, newer, pronunciation of /r/ in British English, close to /w/, but distinct from it, that has increased in frequency and prominence in the last decade. In it, the lips are less pursed than for a /w/ and you sense there is less muscular tension than for what we might call the ‘traditional’ /r/ of speakers of standard English. In ambiguous contexts it could still cause confusion, as between real and wheel, or crack and quack. It may occur less in Scottish, Welsh and Irish accents than in ones from England.

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Upspeak in British English

Abstract: An examination of a novel UK rising tone, with reference to its use in some other Anglophone countries

Cited by 39 publications

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Gender, interaction and intonational variation: The discourse functions of High Rising Terminals in London

Gender, interaction and intonational variation: The discourse functions of High Rising Terminals in London

Processes of semogenesis in English intonation

W(h)ither the /r/ in Britain?

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