When You Sound Different on the Phone

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This is a skit about a mother and daughter who are Cuban-Americans and each have a different voice when talking on the phone. This is an example of a linguistic repertoire- the mother and daughter are pulling on different resources. It also shows the speaker shifting in speech towards the audience, and the mother and daughter each chose (subconsciously) to use a different accent when on the phone to index things different to what their natural accents would index.

Posted by Yesim Yilmaz on April 23, 2019

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Accommodation;
Code-switching;
Indexicality

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