Style-Shifting in Public -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Styling and sociolinguistics -- 2. New perspectives in stylistic variation -- 3. Style-shifting in public -- References -- Part I Style and Sociolinguistic Variation in Political Discourse -- Speaker design strategies in political contexts of a dialectal community -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Objectives -- 3. Data: Speakers and variables -- 3.1 Speakers -- 3.2 Linguistic variables -- 3.3 Private interview -- 4. Results, analysis and interpretation -- 4.1 Quantitative approach -- 4.2 Qualitative approach -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Style-Shifting in the U.S. Congress -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results: Style-shifting in the house -- 4. Analysis: Variation over the time course -- 5. Analysis: Moment-to-moment style-shifting -- 6. Discussion: Presenting a public political style -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Condoleezza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Features -- 2.3 Analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Vowel features -- 3.2 Consonant features -- 3.3 Rhythm feature -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix -- Speaker design in Austrian TV political discussions -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Speaker design -- 1.2 Speaker agency vs. responsiveness -- 2. Language use in Austria -- 3. Introducing the data -- 4. Data analysis -- 4.1 Speaker design in reported speech -- 4.2 Speaker design in interjections -- 5. Summary, discussion and conclusion -- References -- Recency, resonance, and the structuring of phonological style in political speeches -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Recency And Realization -- 4. Resonance And Burst Duration -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

part II Style and sociolinguistic variation in media interaction -- Parodic performances as indexical negatives of style -- 1. Attributing meaning to style -- 2. The parodic speech genre -- 3. Martha Stewart: A good woman gone bad -- 4. Newt Gingrich: Multimodal strategies in the parody of a speech act -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Popular music singing as referee design -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Style in sociolinguistics -- 3. Sociolinguistics of popular singing -- 4. Design and methodology -- 4.1 Choice of participants and collection of recordings -- 4.2 Singer profiles -- 4.3 Methodology of data selection -- 5. Findings -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 Dylan -- 6.2 Andrew -- 6.3 John -- 7. Conclusions: American-Influenced singing as a responsive style -- References -- Performing style -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. The present study -- 3.1 Overall patterning -- 3.2 Framing -- 3.3 Socio-cultural framing -- 3.4 Generic framing -- 3.5 Interpersonal framing -- 4. Discussion: Style and dialect performance -- 5. Summary -- References -- Dialect as style in Norwegian mass media -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialect, register, and style -- 3. The Norwegian sociolinguistic setting (in brief) -- 4. Stylistic choices in Norwegian mass media -- 4.1 Nationally televised debates -- 4.2 Valdresmål in mass media -- 4.3 Media attention to Valdresmål -- 4.4 Local feedback -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Carry shopping through to the end -- 1. Introduction -- 2. S Information station: Leader in distinctive individualistic consumption -- 3. Innovative linguistic features -- 3.1 Lexical features -- 3.2 Codemixing -- 3.3 Innovative sound features -- 3.3.1 De-rhotacization -- 3.3.2 Full tone in a neutral tone environment -- 3.4 Effecting social distinction through an innovative cosmopolitan mandarin style -- 4. CONCLUSION -- References.

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