INDEXING POLITICAL Persuasion: VARIATION IN THEIRAQVOWELS

Lauren Hall‐Lew · Elizabeth Coppock · Rebecca Lurie Starr

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Linguistic Variation and Morphology Phonetics and Phonology Research Cultural and political discourse analysis

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To determine whether phonological variables are a potential resource for the expression of political identity, this article examines the second vowel of Iraq. In addition to being part of a politically significant place-name, Iraq is particularly well-suited to index political identity due in part to the ideological association between the “foreign (a)” variable with correctness and educatedness in U.S. English (Boberg 1997). Specifically, Iraq's second vowel appears to index political conservatism when produced as /æ/ and political liberalism when produced as /a:/. Results from an analysis of the U.S. House of Representatives show that Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats to use /æ/, even controlling for regional accent.

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