The Fricative Manoeuvre: Dialect Style-Shifting between Castilian and Mexican Spanish in YouTube Interviews with Musician Paul Banks
Keywords:
style shifting, intraspeaker variation, sociophonetics, Spanish
Abstract
This study examines style-shifting in the case of Paul Banks, lead singer of the indie rock band Interpol, who spent a substantial amount of time during his adolescence in Spain and Mexico and therefore has access to their corresponding dialects. Our results show that Banks uses the dialect of the viewers during interviews. We see this as a strategy to index locality and solidarity in both Spanish-speaking regions and to convey aspects of his past and identity in order to win over viewers and fans.
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Navarro Tomás, Tomás (1961). Manual de Pronunciación Española. Madrid: CSIC.
Rickford, John R., and Faye McNair-Knox. 1994. Addressee and topic-influenced style shift: A quantitative sociolinguistic study. In Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register, ed. D. Biber and E. Finegan, 235–276. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rolling Stone Colombia. 2015. Interpol/Paul Banks—entrevista Rolling Stone. Accessed, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkyInmjFBxE
Schilling-Estes, Natalie. 1998. Investigating “self-conscious” speech: The performance register in Ocracoke English. Language in Society 27(1):53–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500019722
Schilling-Estes, Natalie. (2002). American English social dialect variation and gender. Journal of English Linguistics. 30(1). 122-137. DOI: 10.1177/007242030002003
Sharma, Devyani. 2011. Style repertoire and social change in British Asian English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(4):464–492. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00503.x
Silverstein, Michael. 1981. The limits of awareness. Sociolinguistic Working Paper Number 84. Accessed, https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED250941
Van Herk, Gerard. 2012. What is Sociolinguistics? New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons.
Vaquero de Ramírez, Maria. 1998. El Español de América I: Pronunciación. Madrid: Arco Libros.
Published
01-Jun-2017
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Magued Mina, M., and J. Kerla. “The Fricative Manoeuvre: Dialect Style-Shifting Between Castilian and Mexican Spanish in YouTube Interviews With Musician Paul Banks”. Lifespans and Styles, Vol. 3, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 13-19, doi:10.2218/ls.v3i2.2017.1863.
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