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The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgements in Racially Diverse and Non-Diverse Groups
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Kutlu, Ethan; Tiv, Mehrgol; Wulff, Stefanie; Titone, Debra – Applied Linguistics, 2022
"Standard" varieties are often perceived as morally superior compared with "nonstandard" varieties (Hill 2008). Consequently, these differences lead to ideologies that racialize "nonstandard" varieties (Rosa 2016), and increase the negative stereotypes towards "nonstandard" varieties (Giles and Watson 2013).…
Descriptors: Race, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
The Soft Ideological Underbelly of the Notion of Intelligibility in Discussions about "World Englishes"
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Rajagopalan, Kanavillil – Applied Linguistics, 2010
The term "intelligibility" is widely viewed as denoting an ideologically neutral concept and therefore useful in speculating about the future of the English language, especially in the context of its expansion at the current exponential rate and the danger or otherwise of its breaking up into mutually incomprehensible languages, the way Latin did…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning
Semicommunication and Accommodation: Observations from the Linguistic Situation in Scandinavia.
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Braunmuller, Kurt – Applied Linguistics, 2002
Focuses on semicommunication and accommodation and discusses two longer extracts from a large corpus of authentic communication from Scandinavia. Various aspects of a comprehensive model of semicommunication are presented and discussed, showing code switching and accommodation are not considered antagonistic but rather as scalar phenomena covering…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Code Switching (Language), Computational Linguistics, Danish