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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: Accents, Complex Identities, and Politics
Description: In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Nicole Holliday. Dr. Holliday is a sociophonetician and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkely in the United States. Today, Dr. Holliday discusses her 2023 paper âComplex Variation in the Construction of a Sociolinguistic Persona: the Case of Vice President Kamala Harrisâ in which Dr. Holliday analyses VP Harrisâ linguistic identity on the 2020 U.S. presidential election debate stage. In the paper, Dr. Holliday examines Harrisâ construction of identity through language features and discusses the overt and covert prestige that those features represent to dif...