dc.contributor.author | Hall-Lew, Lauren | |
dc.contributor.author | Friskney, Ruth | |
dc.contributor.author | Scobbie, James M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-29T15:52:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-29T15:52:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11-24 | |
dc.identifier | ER4886 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hall-Lew, L., Friskney, R. & Scobbie, J. M. (2017) Accommodation or political identity: Scottish members of the UK Parliament. Language Variation & Change, 29 (3), pp. 341-363. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0954-3945 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-8021 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394517000175 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/4886 | |
dc.description | Item also deposited in University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh Research Explorer) repository, available at: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/accommodation-or-political-identity(b85753d3-9059-40c0-ae2c-8c5bcc9da890).html | |
dc.description.abstract | Phonetic variation among Scottish Members of the UK Parliament may be influenced by
convergence to Southern English norms (Carr & Brulard 2006) or political identity (e.g.,
Hall-Lew, Coppock & Starr 2010). Drawing on a year's worth of political speeches (2011-
2012) from ten Scottish Members of the UK Parliament (MPs), we find no acoustic evidence
for the adoption of a Southern English low vowel system; rather, we find that vowel height is
significantly correlated with political party: Scottish Labour Party MPs produce a higher
'CAT' vowel (Johnston 1997) than do Scottish National Party MPs. The results contradict
claims that Scottish MPs acquire 'Anglo-English' features while at UK Parliament. Rather,
we suggest that the variation indexes political meaning, with a subset of individuals drawing
on that indexicality in production. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by a British Academy Small Grant (SG130396), with funds from the Leverhulme Foundation, and also by a Small Grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. | |
dc.format.extent | 341-363 | |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Language Variation & Change | |
dc.rights | Copyright: © Cambridge University Press 2017 | |
dc.title | Accommodation or political identity: Scottish members of the UK Parliament | |
dc.type | article | |
dcterms.accessRights | public | |
dc.description.faculty | casl | |
dc.description.volume | 29 | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://10.1017/S0954394517000175 | |
dc.description.ispublished | pub | |
dc.description.eprintid | 4886 | |
rioxxterms.type | article | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | |
refterms.dateAccepted | 2017-05-17 | |
refterms.dateFCA | 2017-09-20 | |
refterms.dateFCD | 2017-09-20 | |
qmu.author | Scobbie, James M. | |
qmu.centre | CASL | |
qmu.centre | CASL | en |
dc.description.status | pub | |
dc.description.number | 3 | |
refterms.version | AM | |