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Erez Levon

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ID743863
NAMEErez Levon
GIVEN NAMESErez
FAMILY NAMELevon
SIGNATURELEVON E
AFFILIATIONSQueen Mary University of London
ORCID0000-0003-1060-7060
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS332
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX11
  • Theorizing checkpoints of desire

    Open Access•Tommaso M Milani, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2024

    In this article, we explore how people in conflict-affected societies use language to navigate the affective constraints that political conflicts impose. Specifically, we consider the role of multilingualism in enabling sexual and romantic intimacy between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis in Israel/Palestine. Our data are drawn from a close examination of the speech of Fadi Daeem, one of the protagonists in the 2015 documentary Oriented. Building …

  • Voices, Bodies, and the Cultural Organization of Meaning

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Sophie Holmes-Elliott•ARTICLE•Signs and Society•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    This article examines how the “arbitrary content of culture” (Bourdieu 1977) comes to be inscribed onto patterns of sociolinguistic variation. Specifically, we consider the role of iconicity in this process. Studies of iconicity and variation to date have tended to focus on the iconic properties of the speech signal itself (e.g., an association between higher-frequency sounds and smallness). We bring these ideas about sound symbolism into dialogu…

  • The jet set

    Open Access•Sophie Holmes-Elliott, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2024•References: 9

    While the loss of regional distinctiveness across the southeastern UK is well studied and largely undisputed, there is less consensus about class-based divisions. This paper investigates this question through an updated analysis of the variety emblematic of Britain’s upper class: Received Pronunciation (RP). While previous studies have suggested levelling in RP to a broader standard southeastern norm, our findings indicate that the most recent ad…

  • Years of British accent bias

    Open Access•Devyani Sharma, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•English World-Wide A Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 30

    Do accent biases observed half a century ago ( Giles 1970 ) and 15 years ago ( Coupland and Bishop 2007 ) still hold in Britain today? We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and extending previous studies. Mean ratings and relative rankings of 38 accents for prestige and pleasantness by a large representative sample of the British population ( N = 821) attest to a remarkably stable, long-standing hiera…

  • Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning

    Open Access•Elisa Passoni, Edith De Leeuw et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Speech•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 57

    We investigated whether expression of social meaning operationalized as individual gender identitity and politeness moderated pitch range in the two languages of female and male Japanese-English sequential bilinguals. The bilinguals were resident in either London (UK) or Tokyo (Japan) and read sentences to imagined addressees who varied in formality and sex. Results indicated significant differences in the pitch range of the two languages of the …

  • Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody

    Open Access•Meghan E Armstrong, Meghan Armstrong et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Speech•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 26

    As in many linguistics subfields, studies of prosody have mainly focused on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of this Special Issue is to diversify prosody research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The Special Issue brings together prosody researchers and researchers exploring sociological varia…

  • Sociolinguistics + Art

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2022

    One of the most widespread developments in sociolinguistics over the past 20 years has been the claim that meaning is contingent. Pushing back against a belief in language as a stable reflection of social structure, research across the field has focused on the diverse ways that meanings emerge in context, the processes through which such meanings are regimented and evaluated by competing ideological systems, and the strategic creativity of indivi…

  • Dynamic sociolinguistic processing

    Erez Levon, Devyani Sharma et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2022•Cited by: 3

    Social category information plays a central role in speech perception and processing. To date, research on this topic has struggled to model how social category perceptions evolve over the time course of an interaction. In this article, we build on recent methodological developments to investigate trajectories of listener perceptions, focusing on how impressions change as linguistic, social, and contextual details emerge. We base our arguments on…

  • Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Devyani Sharma et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of English Linguistics•2021

    Unequal outcomes in professional hiring for individuals from less privileged backgrounds have been widely reported in England. Although accent is one of the most salient signals of such a background, its role in unequal professional outcomes remains underexamined. This paper reports on a large-scale study of contemporary attitudes to accents in England. A large representative sample ( N = 848) of the population in England judged the interview per…

  • Introduction to the Theme Series 'Decentring the Anglosphere

    Open Access•Monica Heller, Pedro De Moraes Garcez et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2021•Cited by: 2

  • When the Checkpoint Becomes a Counterpoint

    Open Access•Tommaso M Milani, Muzna Awayed-Bishara et al.•ARTICLE•Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada•2020

    This article was born out of a sense of discomfort with the privilege accorded to movement and mobility in critical scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities, including critical work on the relationship between language, sexuality and space. It is our contention in this article that stasis can be deployed as a radical practice of defiance, and therefore can be queer too. In order to argue that stillness can be a form of social action …

  • Language, indexicality and gender ideologies

    Erez Levon, Yang Ye•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    It is well established that listeners’ attitudes to variability in language are affected by context. One speaker’s use of a particular form will not necessarily be evaluated in the same way as another’s use of that same form, and the pragmatic meanings listeners associate with speech depend on the specific social setting in which that speech occurs. In this article, we explore how this contextual sensitivity of sociolinguistic perception interact…

  • Language, (in)security, and sexuality

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 35

  • Closing questions

    Open Access•Ben Rampton, Constadina Charalambous et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 19

  • Parodies of whiteness

    Open Access•Ian Bekker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 66

    The dramatic reconfiguration of the social, political, and ideological order in South Africa since 1990/1994 has demanded a concomitant reconceptualization of (white) Afrikaner notions of self and belonging in the (new) nation. In this article, we draw on recent developments in the study of varidirectional voicing (polyphony), performance, and mediatization to examine how the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord makes use of parody and metap…

  • This is not Europe”

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Roey J Gafter•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 24

  • Crossing boundaries

    Tommaso M Milani, Tommaso Milani et al.•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2019•Cited by: 7

    The main argument of this article is that Israel seeks to govern its expat citizens not so much through the mobilisation of their ‘rational capacities to evaluate truth claims but through affects’ (Isin, 2004:225). Such viscerality of Israeli nationalism can be seen in the ways in which speci?c emotions – mourning, shame, guilt and fear of loss – are activated through particular semiotic choices. These affective resources, in turn, are marshalled…

  • Methods for the study of accent bias and access to elite professions

    Devyani Sharma, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and…•2019•Cited by: 4

    Fair access to employment is vital for improving social mobility in Britain today. As language is not explicitly protected by the Equality Act 2010, accent can become a proxy for other forms of discrimination at key junctures for social mobility such as recruiting to elite professions. The Accent Bias and Fair Access in Britain project (www.accentbiasbritain.org) aims to assess prevailing attitudes to accents in Britain and to assess the extent t…

  • Navigating normativities

    Open Access•Kira Hall, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2019•Cited by: 20•References: 26

    This special issue was born out of a conversation initiated at a panel organized by two of us at the ninth biannual meeting of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), held at City University of Hong Kong in May 2016. The principal goal of the panel was to stimulate an academic discussion on the role of normativity and antinormativity in language, gender, and sexuality research in response to a series of critical interventions i…

  • Israel as homotopia

    Open Access•Tommaso M Milani, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 24

    Israel has recently succeeded in presenting itself as an attractive haven for LGBT constituencies. In this article, we investigate how this affective traction operates in practice, along with the ambiguous entanglement of normativity and antinormativity as expressed in the agency of some gay Palestinian Israelis vis-à-vis the Israeli homonationalist project. For this purpose, we analyze the documentaryOriented(2015), produced by the British direc…

  • Tel Aviv as a space of affirmation versus transformation

    Tommaso M Milani, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistic Landscape An…•2018

    In this article we investigate the spatial politics of sexuality in Israel by focusing on two different but related data sets: (1) the official video for Tel Aviv Pride 2013 produced by the Mizrahi Jewish music group Arisa ; and (2) a protest against the Occupation of Palestine performed at Tel Aviv Pride in 2017. We analyze these examples with the help of a theoretical framework that offers a dynamic conceptualization of citizenship and its semi…

  • The topography of masculine normativities in South Africa

    Erez Levon, Tommaso M Milani et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    In this paper, we examine representations of masculinity in the English-language South African print media. Using both quantitative and qualitative techniques to interrogate a large corpus (18 million words) of English-language newspaper articles on masculinity that appeared in South Africa between 2008 and 2014, we investigate the ways in which different South African masculine types are positioned with respect to one another in the media and ex…

  • Introduction

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Marie Maegaard et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•References: 29

    This paper provides an introduction to the papers in this special issue on the sociophonetics of /s/. We begin by reviewing some of the principal findings on variation in the production and perception of /s/, summarizing studies in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and laboratory phonology. We go on to identify similarities in the meanings associated with /s/ variation cross-linguistically, and briefly describe how theories of sound symbo…

  • The embedded indexical value of /s/-fronting in Afrikaans and South African English

    Open Access•Ian Bekker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 24

    This paper examines the indexical value of /s/-fronting in White Afrikaans and in White South African English (WSAfE). Prior research on this feature has shown that fronted articulations of /s/ in WSAfE serve as a regional and social indicator of the wealthy northern suburbs of Johannesburg, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the feature carries a similar meaning in White Afrikaans. This study therefore aims to examine whether the variable carr…

  • The substance of style

    Open Access•Sophie Holmes-Elliott, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 23

    This paper proposes an empirical method for the quantitative analysis of stance-taking in interaction. Building on recent conceptualizations of stance as the primary building-block of variation in language style, we describe how to implement an analysis of stance within a variationist framework via an examination of the particular speech activities within which stances are embedded combined with a consideration of the specific interactional goals…

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  • Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2014•Cited by: 36•References: 43

    This article examines how social stereotypes influence listeners' perceptions of indexical language. Building on recent developments in linguistics and social psychology, I investigate the extent to which stereotypical attitudes and beliefs about categories of speakers serve to enable the association of linguistic features with particular social meanings while simultaneously blocking others. My arguments are based on an analysis of listener perce…

  • Integrating Intersectionality in Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language and Linguistics Compass•2015•Cited by: 30•References: 91

    In this paper, I argue for the need to integrate intersectionality theory more fully in language, gender, and sexuality research. I outline the basic principles of what an intersectional approach to identity and identity-linked speech entails, focusing particularly on the belief that an adequate description of lived experience, and hence social practice, requires us to consider the ways in which multiple systems of social categorization (e.g., ge…

  • Hearing “Gay

    Erez Levon•ARTICLE•American Speech•2006•Cited by: 30•References: 20

    This article describes a controlled experiment designed to determine what people listen to specifically when judging a speaker's sexuality. Four experimental stimuli were produced by digitally shortening the syllable duration and narrowing the pitch of one male speaker reading a passage. Listeners rated various combinations of the four stimuli on 10 affective scales, including straight/gay and effeminate/masculine. Altering the two variables was …

  • Sexuality in context

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2007•Cited by: 29•References: 17

    This article illustrates the use of an empirical method for examining the perceptual identification of gayness in male speakers. It demonstrates how, by digitally manipulating the speech of isolated individuals, it is possible to obtain reliable evidence that pitch range and sibilant duration may act as indexical of a gay male identity. Further scrutiny of this result, however, illustrates that linguistic indexicality is not as straightforward as…

  • Navigating normativities

    Open Access•Kira Hall, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2019•Cited by: 20•References: 26

    This special issue was born out of a conversation initiated at a panel organized by two of us at the ninth biannual meeting of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), held at City University of Hong Kong in May 2016. The principal goal of the panel was to stimulate an academic discussion on the role of normativity and antinormativity in language, gender, and sexuality research in response to a series of critical interventions i…

  • Sexing diversity

    Open Access•Tommaso M Milani, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language & Communication•2016•Cited by: 18•References: 23

  • Perception, cognition, and linguistic structure

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Isabelle Buchstaller•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2015•Cited by: 18•References: 18

    The Interface Principle posits that morphosyntactic variation does not elicit the same kinds of perceptual reactions as phonetic variables because “members of the speech community evaluate the surface form of language but not more abstract structural features” (Labov, 1993:4). This article examines the effect of linguistic modularity on listeners' social evaluations. Our point of departure is the sociolinguistic monitor, a hypothesized cognitive …

  • That’s what I call a man’

    P Baker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2016•Cited by: 17

    According to Connell (1995), “being a man” involves actively positioning one’s self in relation to culturally dominant images of masculinity. Yet, crucially, these images change depending on the social and historical context. In this paper, we examine contemporary discourses of masculinity as they are represented in the British press. In particular, we focus on the ways in which masculine representations are both racialized and classed, and how t…

  • Teasing Apart to Bring Together

    Erez Levon•ARTICLE•American Speech•2011•Cited by: 16•References: 26

    Sociolinguistics has long recognized the crucial interconnection between gender and sexuality. This article situates sociolinguists' concern with this topic within a larger discussion of intersectionality as a framework for theorizing identity. It argues that variationist methods provide a mechanism for redressing certain shortcomings of intersectional analysis that have been highlighted by scholars in other disciplines. To illustrate these point…

  • Gender, interaction and intonational variation

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 46

    In this paper, I examine the different conversational and interactional functions that High Rising Terminals ( HRT ) fulfil among young, White, middle‐class speakers of London English. Data are drawn from sixteen small‐group interviews with forty‐two individuals (28 women and 14 men) aged 18–25. From this corpus, 7351 declarative Intonation Phrases were extracted, and auditorily coded for the presence/absence of HRT as well as for a variety of so…

  • Israel as homotopia

    Open Access•Tommaso M Milani, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 24

    Israel has recently succeeded in presenting itself as an attractive haven for LGBT constituencies. In this article, we investigate how this affective traction operates in practice, along with the ambiguous entanglement of normativity and antinormativity as expressed in the agency of some gay Palestinian Israelis vis-à-vis the Israeli homonationalist project. For this purpose, we analyze the documentaryOriented(2015), produced by the British direc…

  • Dimensions of style

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2009•Cited by: 10•References: 51

    Sociolinguistic research has traditionally examined stylistic variation as a way of understanding how speakers may use language indexically. Quantitatively, research has sought to correlate observed patterns of variation across such external parameters as context or topic with the ways in which speakers linguistically orient themselves to their immediate surroundings or to some other socially-salient reference group. Recently, this approach has b…

  • The voice of others

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 32

    This article presents an analysis of a slang variety, calledoxtšit, as it is described and used by a cohort of gay men in Israel. Unlike many previous analyses of gay slang, I argue that the men described do not use the variety to help construct and affirm an alternative gay identity, but rather that they use it as a form of in-group mockery through which normative and nonnormative articulations of Israeli gay male sexuality are delineated. It is…

  • Mosaic identity and style

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 15

    Scholars of American Judaism have argued that American Jews are losing their sense of a distinctive Jewish identity, and the cultural practices concomitant with that identity. This general attrition has resulted in what many label the mosaic identity of American Jews, whereby multiple group affiliations exist in tandem and in conflict. Utilizing a reworked framework of language style (based on Bell 1984 , 2001 ), I demonstrate how the claim that …

  • Crossing boundaries

    Tommaso M Milani, Tommaso Milani et al.•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2019•Cited by: 7

    The main argument of this article is that Israel seeks to govern its expat citizens not so much through the mobilisation of their ‘rational capacities to evaluate truth claims but through affects’ (Isin, 2004:225). Such viscerality of Israeli nationalism can be seen in the ways in which speci?c emotions – mourning, shame, guilt and fear of loss – are activated through particular semiotic choices. These affective resources, in turn, are marshalled…

  • The embedded indexical value of /s/-fronting in Afrikaans and South African English

    Open Access•Ian Bekker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 24

    This paper examines the indexical value of /s/-fronting in White Afrikaans and in White South African English (WSAfE). Prior research on this feature has shown that fronted articulations of /s/ in WSAfE serve as a regional and social indicator of the wealthy northern suburbs of Johannesburg, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the feature carries a similar meaning in White Afrikaans. This study therefore aims to examine whether the variable carr…

  • Situating sociolinguistics

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 64

    I attended a conference recently in a small town in the US, and after the sessions one evening a group of us went out for a meal at a local microbrewery.The place was crowded, with people sitting either at long communal tables in a makeshift hangar or in small groups around the large fire pit outside.I was standing chatting with a group of five or six fellow linguists, when a man came over from a nearby group and, in a friendly American way, aske…

  • Language, (in)security, and sexuality

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 35

  • The topography of masculine normativities in South Africa

    Erez Levon, Tommaso M Milani et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    In this paper, we examine representations of masculinity in the English-language South African print media. Using both quantitative and qualitative techniques to interrogate a large corpus (18 million words) of English-language newspaper articles on masculinity that appeared in South Africa between 2008 and 2014, we investigate the ways in which different South African masculine types are positioned with respect to one another in the media and ex…

  • The substance of style

    Open Access•Sophie Holmes-Elliott, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 23

    This paper proposes an empirical method for the quantitative analysis of stance-taking in interaction. Building on recent conceptualizations of stance as the primary building-block of variation in language style, we describe how to implement an analysis of stance within a variationist framework via an examination of the particular speech activities within which stances are embedded combined with a consideration of the specific interactional goals…

  • Language, indexicality and gender ideologies

    Erez Levon, Yang Ye•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    It is well established that listeners’ attitudes to variability in language are affected by context. One speaker’s use of a particular form will not necessarily be evaluated in the same way as another’s use of that same form, and the pragmatic meanings listeners associate with speech depend on the specific social setting in which that speech occurs. In this article, we explore how this contextual sensitivity of sociolinguistic perception interact…

  • Methods for the study of accent bias and access to elite professions

    Devyani Sharma, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and…•2019•Cited by: 4

    Fair access to employment is vital for improving social mobility in Britain today. As language is not explicitly protected by the Equality Act 2010, accent can become a proxy for other forms of discrimination at key junctures for social mobility such as recruiting to elite professions. The Accent Bias and Fair Access in Britain project (www.accentbiasbritain.org) aims to assess prevailing attitudes to accents in Britain and to assess the extent t…

  • Years of British accent bias

    Open Access•Devyani Sharma, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•English World-Wide A Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 30

    Do accent biases observed half a century ago ( Giles 1970 ) and 15 years ago ( Coupland and Bishop 2007 ) still hold in Britain today? We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and extending previous studies. Mean ratings and relative rankings of 38 accents for prestige and pleasantness by a large representative sample of the British population ( N = 821) attest to a remarkably stable, long-standing hiera…

  • Dynamic sociolinguistic processing

    Erez Levon, Devyani Sharma et al.•ARTICLE•Language•2022•Cited by: 3

    Social category information plays a central role in speech perception and processing. To date, research on this topic has struggled to model how social category perceptions evolve over the time course of an interaction. In this article, we build on recent methodological developments to investigate trajectories of listener perceptions, focusing on how impressions change as linguistic, social, and contextual details emerge. We base our arguments on…

  • Parodies of whiteness

    Open Access•Ian Bekker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 66

    The dramatic reconfiguration of the social, political, and ideological order in South Africa since 1990/1994 has demanded a concomitant reconceptualization of (white) Afrikaner notions of self and belonging in the (new) nation. In this article, we draw on recent developments in the study of varidirectional voicing (polyphony), performance, and mediatization to examine how the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord makes use of parody and metap…

  • Mosaic identity and style

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 15

    Scholars of American Judaism have argued that American Jews are losing their sense of a distinctive Jewish identity, and the cultural practices concomitant with that identity. This general attrition has resulted in what many label the mosaic identity of American Jews, whereby multiple group affiliations exist in tandem and in conflict. Utilizing a reworked framework of language style (based on Bell 1984 , 2001 ), I demonstrate how the claim that …

  • Hearing “Gay

    Erez Levon•ARTICLE•American Speech•2006•Cited by: 30•References: 20

    This article describes a controlled experiment designed to determine what people listen to specifically when judging a speaker's sexuality. Four experimental stimuli were produced by digitally shortening the syllable duration and narrowing the pitch of one male speaker reading a passage. Listeners rated various combinations of the four stimuli on 10 affective scales, including straight/gay and effeminate/masculine. Altering the two variables was …

  • Sexuality in context

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2007•Cited by: 29•References: 17

    This article illustrates the use of an empirical method for examining the perceptual identification of gayness in male speakers. It demonstrates how, by digitally manipulating the speech of isolated individuals, it is possible to obtain reliable evidence that pitch range and sibilant duration may act as indexical of a gay male identity. Further scrutiny of this result, however, illustrates that linguistic indexicality is not as straightforward as…

  • John Myhill

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language Policy•2008

  • Dimensions of style

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2009•Cited by: 10•References: 51

    Sociolinguistic research has traditionally examined stylistic variation as a way of understanding how speakers may use language indexically. Quantitatively, research has sought to correlate observed patterns of variation across such external parameters as context or topic with the ways in which speakers linguistically orient themselves to their immediate surroundings or to some other socially-salient reference group. Recently, this approach has b…

  • Teasing Apart to Bring Together

    Erez Levon•ARTICLE•American Speech•2011•Cited by: 16•References: 26

    Sociolinguistics has long recognized the crucial interconnection between gender and sexuality. This article situates sociolinguists' concern with this topic within a larger discussion of intersectionality as a framework for theorizing identity. It argues that variationist methods provide a mechanism for redressing certain shortcomings of intersectional analysis that have been highlighted by scholars in other disciplines. To illustrate these point…

  • Gender, prescriptivism, and language change

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2012•References: 9

    Beliefs about a language rarely correspond to how it is used. This is especially true for Hebrew, a language that has been subject to continued ideological “preservation” efforts ever since its (re)vernacularization in the early 20th century. Recently, attention has turned to the maintenance of Hebrew gender morphology, which is perceived in both scholarly and popular opinion as threatened by a process of leveling to gender syncretized forms acro…

  • The voice of others

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 32

    This article presents an analysis of a slang variety, calledoxtšit, as it is described and used by a cohort of gay men in Israel. Unlike many previous analyses of gay slang, I argue that the men described do not use the variety to help construct and affirm an alternative gay identity, but rather that they use it as a form of in-group mockery through which normative and nonnormative articulations of Israeli gay male sexuality are delineated. It is…

  • Social Salience and the Sociolinguistic Monitor

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Sue Fox•ARTICLE•Journal of English Linguistics•2014

    This article examines the role of social salience, or the relative ability of a linguistic variable to evoke social meaning, in structuring listeners’ perceptions of quantitative sociolinguistic distributions. Building on the foundational work of Labov et al. (2006, 2011) on the “sociolinguistic monitor” (a proposed cognitive mechanism responsible for sociolinguistic perception), we examine whether listeners’ evaluative judgments of speech change…

  • Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language in Society•2014•Cited by: 36•References: 43

    This article examines how social stereotypes influence listeners' perceptions of indexical language. Building on recent developments in linguistics and social psychology, I investigate the extent to which stereotypical attitudes and beliefs about categories of speakers serve to enable the association of linguistic features with particular social meanings while simultaneously blocking others. My arguments are based on an analysis of listener perce…

  • Picking the right cherries? A comparison of corpus-based and qualitative analyses of news articles about masculinity

    Open Access•Paul Baker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Discourse & Communication•2015

    As a way of comparing qualitative and quantitative approaches to critical discourse analysis (CDA), two analysts independently examined similar datasets of newspaper articles in order to address the research question ‘How are different types of men represented in the British press?’. One analyst used a 41.5 million word corpus of articles, while the other focused on a down-sampled set of 51 articles from the same corpus. The two ensuing research …

  • That’s what I call a man’

    Paul Baker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2015•Cited by: 2

    According to Connell (1995), "being a man" involves actively positioning one's self in relation to culturally dominant images of masculinity. Yet, crucially, these images change depending on the social and historical context. In this paper, we examine contemporary discourses of masculinity as they are represented in the British press. In particular, we focus on the ways in which masculine representations are both racialized and classed, and how t…

  • Perception, cognition, and linguistic structure

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Isabelle Buchstaller•ARTICLE•Language Variation and Change•2015•Cited by: 18•References: 18

    The Interface Principle posits that morphosyntactic variation does not elicit the same kinds of perceptual reactions as phonetic variables because “members of the speech community evaluate the surface form of language but not more abstract structural features” (Labov, 1993:4). This article examines the effect of linguistic modularity on listeners' social evaluations. Our point of departure is the sociolinguistic monitor, a hypothesized cognitive …

  • Integrating Intersectionality in Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language and Linguistics Compass•2015•Cited by: 30•References: 91

    In this paper, I argue for the need to integrate intersectionality theory more fully in language, gender, and sexuality research. I outline the basic principles of what an intersectional approach to identity and identity-linked speech entails, focusing particularly on the belief that an adequate description of lived experience, and hence social practice, requires us to consider the ways in which multiple systems of social categorization (e.g., ge…

  • That’s what I call a man’

    P Baker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2016•Cited by: 17

    According to Connell (1995), “being a man” involves actively positioning one’s self in relation to culturally dominant images of masculinity. Yet, crucially, these images change depending on the social and historical context. In this paper, we examine contemporary discourses of masculinity as they are represented in the British press. In particular, we focus on the ways in which masculine representations are both racialized and classed, and how t…

  • Gender, interaction and intonational variation

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 46

    In this paper, I examine the different conversational and interactional functions that High Rising Terminals ( HRT ) fulfil among young, White, middle‐class speakers of London English. Data are drawn from sixteen small‐group interviews with forty‐two individuals (28 women and 14 men) aged 18–25. From this corpus, 7351 declarative Intonation Phrases were extracted, and auditorily coded for the presence/absence of HRT as well as for a variety of so…

  • Sexing diversity

    Open Access•Tommaso M Milani, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Language & Communication•2016•Cited by: 18•References: 23

  • The topography of masculine normativities in South Africa

    Erez Levon, Tommaso M Milani et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    In this paper, we examine representations of masculinity in the English-language South African print media. Using both quantitative and qualitative techniques to interrogate a large corpus (18 million words) of English-language newspaper articles on masculinity that appeared in South Africa between 2008 and 2014, we investigate the ways in which different South African masculine types are positioned with respect to one another in the media and ex…

  • Introduction

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Marie Maegaard et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•References: 29

    This paper provides an introduction to the papers in this special issue on the sociophonetics of /s/. We begin by reviewing some of the principal findings on variation in the production and perception of /s/, summarizing studies in sociolinguistics, experimental phonetics, and laboratory phonology. We go on to identify similarities in the meanings associated with /s/ variation cross-linguistically, and briefly describe how theories of sound symbo…

  • The embedded indexical value of /s/-fronting in Afrikaans and South African English

    Open Access•Ian Bekker, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 24

    This paper examines the indexical value of /s/-fronting in White Afrikaans and in White South African English (WSAfE). Prior research on this feature has shown that fronted articulations of /s/ in WSAfE serve as a regional and social indicator of the wealthy northern suburbs of Johannesburg, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the feature carries a similar meaning in White Afrikaans. This study therefore aims to examine whether the variable carr…

  • The substance of style

    Open Access•Sophie Holmes-Elliott, Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 23

    This paper proposes an empirical method for the quantitative analysis of stance-taking in interaction. Building on recent conceptualizations of stance as the primary building-block of variation in language style, we describe how to implement an analysis of stance within a variationist framework via an examination of the particular speech activities within which stances are embedded combined with a consideration of the specific interactional goals…

  • Situating sociolinguistics

    Open Access•Erez Levon•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 64

    I attended a conference recently in a small town in the US, and after the sessions one evening a group of us went out for a meal at a local microbrewery.The place was crowded, with people sitting either at long communal tables in a makeshift hangar or in small groups around the large fire pit outside.I was standing chatting with a group of five or six fellow linguists, when a man came over from a nearby group and, in a friendly American way, aske…

  • Tel Aviv as a space of affirmation versus transformation

    Tommaso M Milani, Erez Levon et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistic Landscape An…•2018

    In this article we investigate the spatial politics of sexuality in Israel by focusing on two different but related data sets: (1) the official video for Tel Aviv Pride 2013 produced by the Mizrahi Jewish music group Arisa ; and (2) a protest against the Occupation of Palestine performed at Tel Aviv Pride in 2017. We analyze these examples with the help of a theoretical framework that offers a dynamic conceptualization of citizenship and its semi…

  • This is not Europe”

    Open Access•Erez Levon, Roey J Gafter•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 24

  • Crossing boundaries

    Tommaso M Milani, Tommaso Milani et al.•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2019•Cited by: 7

    The main argument of this article is that Israel seeks to govern its expat citizens not so much through the mobilisation of their ‘rational capacities to evaluate truth claims but through affects’ (Isin, 2004:225). Such viscerality of Israeli nationalism can be seen in the ways in which speci?c emotions – mourning, shame, guilt and fear of loss – are activated through particular semiotic choices. These affective resources, in turn, are marshalled…

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