'Saying Things That You Can't Say Tomorrow Day': Accommodation Theory & Authenticity in Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys
This article investigates whether Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner’s use of northern English linguistic features decreased from the band’s first album Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not (WPS) (2006) to their fifth album AM (2013); whether this was because Turner began to acco...
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ftkbcopenhojs:oai:ojs.tidsskrift.dk:article/132074 2023-05-15T14:49:33+02:00 'Saying Things That You Can't Say Tomorrow Day': Accommodation Theory & Authenticity in Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys Ley, Malene 2022-03-22 application/pdf https://tidsskrift.dk/lev/article/view/132074 eng eng Department of English, Aarhus University https://tidsskrift.dk/lev/article/view/132074/177450 https://tidsskrift.dk/lev/article/view/132074 Copyright (c) 2022 Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English; No. 8 (2022); 31–44 Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English; Nr. 8 (2022); 31–44 2446-3981 Arctic Monkeys accommodation theory authenticity dialects and accents sociolinguistics English Linguistics 3: English in Its Social and Regional Settings info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 ftkbcopenhojs 2022-03-23T23:49:54Z This article investigates whether Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner’s use of northern English linguistic features decreased from the band’s first album Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not (WPS) (2006) to their fifth album AM (2013); whether this was because Turner began to accommodate to American audiences instead of British audiences. An auditory analysis of two songs from each album was conducted to see if Turner’s use of glottalisation and th-fronting, typical northern English variants, changed. The results showed a clear decline in Turner’s use of northern English linguistic features between the two albums. The article concludes that British youth was the intended audience in WPS, but it is unclear who the intended audience is in AM as Turner continued to use other non-standard features that index Turner’s British roots. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Tidsskrift.dk (The Royal Library, Denmark) Arctic |
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This article investigates whether Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner’s use of northern English linguistic features decreased from the band’s first album Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not (WPS) (2006) to their fifth album AM (2013); whether this was because Turner began to accommodate to American audiences instead of British audiences. An auditory analysis of two songs from each album was conducted to see if Turner’s use of glottalisation and th-fronting, typical northern English variants, changed. The results showed a clear decline in Turner’s use of northern English linguistic features between the two albums. The article concludes that British youth was the intended audience in WPS, but it is unclear who the intended audience is in AM as Turner continued to use other non-standard features that index Turner’s British roots. |
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'Saying Things That You Can't Say Tomorrow Day': Accommodation Theory & Authenticity in Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys |
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'Saying Things That You Can't Say Tomorrow Day': Accommodation Theory & Authenticity in Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys |
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'Saying Things That You Can't Say Tomorrow Day': Accommodation Theory & Authenticity in Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys |
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'saying things that you can't say tomorrow day': accommodation theory & authenticity in alex turner of arctic monkeys |
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Department of English, Aarhus University |
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