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{"title":"Pop Song English as a supralocal norm","authors":"Andy Gibson","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000131","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 An American-influenced singing accent, referred to here as Pop Song English (PSE), is common in popular music throughout (and beyond) the Anglophone world. This article presents an analysis of the sung pronunciation of two variables (bath and nonprevocalic /r/) that distinguish New Zealand English (NZE) from American Englishes (AmE). The Phonetics of Popular Song (PoPS) corpus includes 154 performers, structured according to country of origin (NZ and the US) and musical genre (pop and hip hop). An auditory analysis was conducted for each variable, distinguishing between the NZE and PSE/AmE variants. Almost all New Zealand performers adopt the PSE variants at least some of the time, with greater adherence to the American model in pop than in hip hop. In the US, region determines hip hop, but not pop, artists’ degree of rhoticity. PSE represents a supralocal norm for pop music, while hip hop artists tend to use their ‘own accent’. (Pop Song English, singing accent, rap accent, supralocal norm, nonprevocalic /r/, trap–bath split, intentionality, language performance, pop music, hip hop, responsive style, initiative style)*","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49119888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, Mihai Dragnea, Thede Kahl, Blagovest Njagulov, Donald L. Dyer, & Angelo Costanzo, The Romance-speaking Balkans: Language and the politics of identity. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiv, 260. Hb. €110.","authors":"J. Patrick","doi":"10.1017/S0047404523000088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"350 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49595875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carmen Fought & Karen Eisenhauer, Language and gender in children's animated films: Exploring Disney and Pixar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. Pb. $30.","authors":"Yumin Chen, Rongji Zhang","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"349 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45964806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nicholas Q. Emlen, Language, coffee, and migration on an Andean-Amazonian frontier. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. Pp. 272. Hb. $60.","authors":"Molly Hamm‐Rodríguez","doi":"10.1017/S0047404523000106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000106","url":null,"abstract":"meeting with the coach, the researchers show him video clips from the match and ask follow-up questions. Matters arising from the multilingual setting when the pressure is high are discussed here. Lastly, Act IV takes us back to the sports hall and begins with pretraining small talk between one of the researchers and some players (scene 1), before moving to coach talk with the players during practice (scene 2). The final scenes (3–5) are taken from a match day and illustrate how the coach designs the team’s strategy and how actively the players are involved in this by contributing to the plan or by encouraging their teammates.","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"353 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42124642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Zannie Bock & Christopher Stroud (eds.), Language and decoloniality in higher education: Reclaiming voices from the South. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 221. Pb. £26.09.","authors":"Ayse Gur Geden","doi":"10.1017/S0047404522000793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404522000793","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"345 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47266296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abhimanyu Sharma, Reconceptualising power in language policy: Evidence from comparative cases. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. 285. Hb. €120.","authors":"Yanyu Wang","doi":"10.1017/S004740452200080X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S004740452200080X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"346 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48483617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"LSY volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":" ","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48269080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paul Kockelman, The anthropology of intensity: Language, culture, and environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 402. Pb. £23","authors":"Sean P. Smith","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"348 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46630194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adrian Blackledge & Angela Creese, Volleyball: An ethnographic drama. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2021. Pp. 80. Pb. $21.95.","authors":"Anastasia Stavridou","doi":"10.1017/S004740452300009X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S004740452300009X","url":null,"abstract":"Approaching the field of ethnography with its various ethical considerations and limitations can be a daunting prospect. The co-authored book Volleyball: An ethnographic drama byAdrian Blackledge andAngela Creese aim to provide a vivid representation of ethnographic research methods intertwined with issues of communication in the world of sport. While the authors study how the communication process unfolds among the coach and players of a UK volleyball team, they also present metaphorically their unsuccessful interactions with government officials (Act I). Thus, they synthesise both a research report and a performative piece, which results in an alternative way of portraying the complexities of social interaction in multilingual settings. Adopting the principles of ethnographic research in combination with those of drama (for instance, dancing, rhythmic discourse, or simultaneous talk and movement), the authors allegorically illustrate mundane issues of social life in their attempt to move away from the traditional ways of conducting ethnographic research. Hence, their perspective opens new avenues for the future of ethnography. Inspired by plays, the book is divided into ‘acts’ and ‘scenes’ instead of chapters and sections. Act I extends through three scenes that take place in the same meeting room in the House of Commons among the various stakeholders involved in the project apart from the research team, such as the club coach, the Minister for Sport, Tourism, and Heritage, her Assistant Private Secretary, and a staff from Exercise UK. The three scenes recount the researchers’ attempt to outline the key findings of their project. However, their discursive choices prompt further discussions with the rest of the stakeholders in the room, thus, making the ‘drama’ more evident. Act II takes the readers back to the field, six months prior to the meeting presented in the previous act. Throughout these scenes, the readers are exposed to interactions recorded during trainings (scenes 1–4), as well as a match day (scene 5), and the complexities surrounding effective decision-making and the team’s strategic planning. The researchers are also actively involved in the script, thus, illustrating the participatory role that researchers often adopt when conducting ethnographic studies. Act II, a single scene act, occurs in a meeting room of the researchers’ host institution between them and the club coach. This way, the audience familiarises with","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"352 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42967033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"LSY volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43884225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}