Celebrity Accents and Public Identity Construction: Analyzing Geordie Stylizations - Paperback

by Emilia Di Martino (Author)

This book builds on the renovated interest on the nexus between accent-identity-prestige-prejudice, offering an analysis of celebrities' accents which will be of interest both to scholars and to students in linguistics and related disciplines to access the topic of language variation from a different, enjoyable perspective.

Author Biography

Emilia Di Martino is Associate Professor of English linguistics at Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Italy. She is interested in a wide variety of topics, mostly focusing on the nexus amongst identity, language and power. She has published extensively, is a regular reviewer and sits on the advisory panel for a series of national and international journals.