This is the book I have always wanted to write, and is about how the way you speak represents you as a person. It mainly focuses on English English, and there are chapters about accents and accentism, male and female speaker differences, voice quality, professional voice users (singers, speakers, broadcasters and voice coaches), forensic phonetics, transgender voice and synthetic voices, and global English voices.
Here's a lovely promo video - including an endorsement from David Crystal!
I've also had a super review from Lynne Murphy on her blog, Separated by a Common Language, and several supportive tweets (including from former students). It seems to be making it on to Christmas wish lists!
You can also watch a video of me giving a talk about the book at Google London here:
OK so this post is basically a blatant bit of self-promotion ... but if I don't do it, who will, eh? Well, Oxford University Press, in fact, who have been getting me all sorts of interesting gigs. Thank you!
I hope you enjoy the videos and links. If nothing else, it's definitely worth looking at Lynne's blog.
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That's incredible ohmyposh ! Releasing a book is such a major achievement. You must be so proud of all the hard work and creativity that went into it. What’s the title, and how are you feeling now that it’s finally out in the world?
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