Rey's English Accent in Star Wars VII

A look at Rey's accent in "The Force Awakens" as a clue to her identity and parentage. Includes a discussion of style-shifting in the Star Wars universe as being representative of intersentential Code-Switching, as well as a discussion of what different codes are (generally) used to index. [Published on 12-23-2015]

Posted by Erika Enge on April 27, 2016

Tags:
Code-switching;
Indexicality;
British English;
American English

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