{"title":"Coda /s/ and intervocalic /d/ elision in Andalusia: The formation of Susana Díaz's regional identity in political discourse","authors":"Matthew Pollock, Jamelyn Wheeler","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.08.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Politicians construct identity, reach supporters, and show their stance toward issues and colleagues through language. This study examines intervocalic /d/ and coda /s/ elision in the speech of the former Andalusian president, Susana Díaz, comparing her tendencies with those of others to determine how she navigates peninsular indexical fields in scripted and unscripted speeches over four years.</p><p>Díaz's rate of elision increased in scripted speeches late in her presidency, unlike her peers. These changes result in part from the indexical meaning of regional variants, changing identity goals, and her intended audience. Her regional variant use both reinforces her solidarity with her region and supporters, and reflects behavior demonstrated by other peninsular politicians.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530922000623","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Politicians construct identity, reach supporters, and show their stance toward issues and colleagues through language. This study examines intervocalic /d/ and coda /s/ elision in the speech of the former Andalusian president, Susana Díaz, comparing her tendencies with those of others to determine how she navigates peninsular indexical fields in scripted and unscripted speeches over four years.
Díaz's rate of elision increased in scripted speeches late in her presidency, unlike her peers. These changes result in part from the indexical meaning of regional variants, changing identity goals, and her intended audience. Her regional variant use both reinforces her solidarity with her region and supporters, and reflects behavior demonstrated by other peninsular politicians.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.
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