Intra-Speaker Variation and Sociophonetic Identity Construction in Political Rhetoric - Silvan Wilsch

Examination Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: This study investigates the linguistic performances of two black politicians from the United States ¿ namely, Barack Obama and Ben Carson ¿ when addressing audiences of differing ethnic composition. Obama's use of vernacular speech at Hampton University was considered controversial due to the stigmatized nature of African American..