Babel: The Language Magazine is a fantastic magazine out of the UK for “lovers of language and linguistics.” I wrote this Feature about the phenomenon of “voicing” in D&D with Adam Axbey (game designer (Ubisoft) and veteran Dungeon Master).
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Speakers use a wide range of techniques to establish different voices for different personas in everyday conversation. They can use features of speech such as pitch, intonation, accent, and rhythm to invoke stock characters like ‘the valley girl’ or ‘the nerd’, or to parody the speech of a specific politician or celebrity. Shifts in voice can also be accomplished through the selection of specific words or syntax. My vocabulary as a father is very different to my vocabulary as a graduate student.
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Click here for a pre-print or head to Babel for full access to the magazine.