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"Valley Girl" and identity creation
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"Valley Girl" and identity creation
Further discussion- the valley girl stereotype
- Stereotype of the valley girl- dumb, airhead, vain, vapid teenage girl
- Changed slightly over time but the general stigma still remains
- These preconceived notions have been applied to the practice of uptalk as well
- Uptalk/valspeak seen as 'feminine', 'uncertain', 'incompetent'
- Similar to vocal fry, judges women based on their vocal patterns (often which are inherent and natural)
The proliferation of uptalk
- Born out of the Valley Girl image
- Now used across the country and globe
- Marked by specific intonations, rising pitch towards the end of the sentence
Valley Girl- a localized culture
Data
- Study on uptalk by Amanda Pritchart, from University of California at San Diego found that uptalk has now spread to persons of all genders and backgrounds in southern California
- “We found use of uptalk in all of our speakers, despite their diverse backgrounds in socioeconomic status, ethnicity, bilungualism, and gender.”
- Observed in speeches across the world, including Irish, Australian, and British speech patterns
- Uptalk, while tied to a perception of ditziness and insecurity, is actually 'nuanced' and an indicator of well articulated speech and intelligence
- Creation of valley girl trope in popular movies and television
- The Galleria
- Consumerism of the 1980s: malls as entertainment/hangout for teens
- Valley girl trope: airhead, ditzy, bubbly fashion-obsessed teenage girl
- Uptalk/high rise terminals (HRT)
Claim
The popular 80s song "Valley Girl" not only helped to create and define a specific identity, drawn from the affluent suburban white middle class of southern California, but would help disseminate a pattern of speech that would become an integral part of American common linguistic practices, and even appear in many English-speaking countries across the globe.
"Valley Girl"
Background
"Valley Girl" by Frank Zappa, 1982 (collaboration with daughter Moon Unit)
From the album "Ship Arriving Too Late to
Save A Drowning Witch"
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