‘A Certain Romance’: Style shifting in the language of Alex Turner in Arctic Monkeys songs 2006–2018
From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router History: epub 2019-03-15 This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner in his songs over a 13-year period. The analysis adapts Simpson’s (1999) USA-5 model for studying accent in vo...
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ftchesteruniv:oai:chesterrep.openrepository.com:10034/624101 2023-05-15T14:57:52+02:00 ‘A Certain Romance’: Style shifting in the language of Alex Turner in Arctic Monkeys songs 2006–2018 Flanagan, Paul J 2020-12-18T01:52:27Z http://hdl.handle.net/10034/624101 https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019827075 unknown SAGE Publications doi:10.1177/0963947019827075 Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, volume 28, issue 1, page 82-98 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/624101 pissn: 0963-9470 eissn: 1461-7293 Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory Language and Linguistics article 2020 ftchesteruniv https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019827075 2022-03-02T19:58:20Z From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router History: epub 2019-03-15 This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner in his songs over a 13-year period. The analysis adapts Simpson’s (1999) USA-5 model for studying accent in vocal performance, and focuses on the realisation of three phonological variables and two dialect variables in a 16,000-word corpus of 69 songs across all six albums released by the band. Hailing from High Green, Sheffield, Turner speaks with a vernacular Yorkshire accent, and the band’s early appeal (particularly in northern England) is often accredited partially to their authentic down-to-earth image, content and performance. Throughout their career, the band have evolved in terms of their musical genre and style, and, having recorded their first two albums in England, later albums were recorded and produced mostly in Los Angeles. Simpson’s model is modified in order to analyse trends in usage of five linguistic variables with non-standard variants iconic of northern British identity, with a view to analysing how Turner’s changing linguistic practice relates to his affiliation with vernacular and institutional norms, and thus his performance of different identities within songs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Chester: Chester Digital Repository Arctic Sheffield Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 28 1 82 98 |
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From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router History: epub 2019-03-15 This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner in his songs over a 13-year period. The analysis adapts Simpson’s (1999) USA-5 model for studying accent in vocal performance, and focuses on the realisation of three phonological variables and two dialect variables in a 16,000-word corpus of 69 songs across all six albums released by the band. Hailing from High Green, Sheffield, Turner speaks with a vernacular Yorkshire accent, and the band’s early appeal (particularly in northern England) is often accredited partially to their authentic down-to-earth image, content and performance. Throughout their career, the band have evolved in terms of their musical genre and style, and, having recorded their first two albums in England, later albums were recorded and produced mostly in Los Angeles. Simpson’s model is modified in order to analyse trends in usage of five linguistic variables with non-standard variants iconic of northern British identity, with a view to analysing how Turner’s changing linguistic practice relates to his affiliation with vernacular and institutional norms, and thus his performance of different identities within songs. |
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‘A Certain Romance’: Style shifting in the language of Alex Turner in Arctic Monkeys songs 2006–2018 |
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