Senior Lecturer in English Language at University of Chester, alumnus of Edge Hill University, formerly teaching at Edge Hill and the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester.
Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2019
This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex... more 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 Brit...
A study of adjectives in Northern Sotho, which considers their nature as a recognisable distinct ... more A study of adjectives in Northern Sotho, which considers their nature as a recognisable distinct lexical category, and compares the ordering of stacked adjectives to that of English, and other languages.
PhD Thesis documenting a study of adjective order in English noun phrases, and providing typologi... more PhD Thesis documenting a study of adjective order in English noun phrases, and providing typological comparison with Welsh, Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog, Northern Sotho and Polish.
This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex... more This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner in his songs over a thirteen-year period. The analysis adapts Simpson's (1999) USA-5 model for studying accent in vocal performance, and focuses upon 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, subsequent 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.
Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2019
This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex... more 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 Brit...
A study of adjectives in Northern Sotho, which considers their nature as a recognisable distinct ... more A study of adjectives in Northern Sotho, which considers their nature as a recognisable distinct lexical category, and compares the ordering of stacked adjectives to that of English, and other languages.
PhD Thesis documenting a study of adjective order in English noun phrases, and providing typologi... more PhD Thesis documenting a study of adjective order in English noun phrases, and providing typological comparison with Welsh, Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog, Northern Sotho and Polish.
This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex... more This paper reports on a diachronic study of the language employed by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner in his songs over a thirteen-year period. The analysis adapts Simpson's (1999) USA-5 model for studying accent in vocal performance, and focuses upon 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, subsequent 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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