Consequences of perceived accent discrimination for psychological adjustment and resilience effects

Freynet, Nathalie; Collins, Katherine A.; Clement, Richard W.

doi:10.1080/01434632.2019.1660355

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“…A ‘decent’ sounding actor may have led participants to express more positive attitudes towards the vignette. Research on accent discrimination has documented how minority or non-standard speakers can experience stigma (Freynet et al, 2020) and are perceived as threatening, whereas strong accents can be perceived as warmer (Birney et al, 2020). The accent of those recorded in audio methods may thus impact on the perceptions accessed by participants.…”

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Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

Kingston

2023

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Audio recording interviews, focus groups, and naturally occurring interactions have been utilised by social researchers for decades. Yet, the use of audio recordings as a tool to elicit participant responses has received less attention in social science research. This is despite heightened interest in non-traditional techniques such as the use of visual methodologies, and arts-based methods. In this article, I describe how I advanced a known method, vignettes, into an audio narrative to explore perceptions of sex work. This article reports on the methodological rationale for the novel use of audio vignettes, and the capacity they have for memory retrieval, eliciting reflections on lived experiences, and for providing richer attitudinal data. By drawing on ‘accessibility theory’, this article argues that audio vignettes are a powerful elicitor of attitudes. Furthermore, I claim that audio methods as I define them, can enhance the social scientists’ toolkit and that, what I term ‘audio sociology’ needs further development.

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Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

Kingston

2023

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“…Bouchard (2002) throws light on how prescriptive attitudes surrounding standard Quebecois French plays a key role in socialization processes in Quebec and outside Quebec. Freynet et al (2020) have studied the psychosocial consequences of accent discrimination in minority Francophone communities, while Yulia Bosworth (2019), who examines the media criticism of Justin Trudeau's French, discusses how Quebec French has gone on to become a language with a rigid standard that is enforced with nationalist pride. In a similar vein, Wernicke (2016) highlights how the struggle to legitimize Canadian French varieties has engendered language subordination, linguistic purism and Eurocentrism in her work on Canadian French varieties.…”

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Discriminations : Combattre la Glottophobie. Philippe Blanchet. Limoges: Lambert Lucas. 2019. 150 pp. Pb (ISBN978‐2‐3593‐281‐8). 15 euros

Ravi

2021

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Important research by sociolinguists has shown us convincingly that those who speak in 'nonstandard' ways and those who speak a minority language are subjected to widespread discrimination. Notwithstanding this evidence, nonexpert populations do not adequately question the taken-forgranted status of language in everyday life. Unfortunately, discrimination based on language (often called by such terms as language subordination or linguicism) is an issue that does not garner the kind of attention that sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, etc., do in contemporary society. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas refers to linguicism as '[i]deologies, structures, and practices which are used to legitimate, effectuate, regulate, and reproduce social inequality on the basis of language' (Skutnabb- Kangas, 2000, p. 30). Rosina Lippi Green in her study on English 'with an accent' in America goes even further to define language subordination as 'taking away a basic human right ' (2011, p. 336). Many of these scholars have pointed out that there is a general 'reluctance to acknowledge language for the social construct that it is, and the repercussions of such resistance' (Lippi-Green, 2011, p. xxi). In the light of this observation, Philippe Blanchet's Discriminations : combattre la glottophobie (2019) is a powerful call to seek justice for those who suffer from this pervasive but much ignored form of social and political violence.Blanchet's Discriminations : combattre la glottophobie (2019) is an updated and revised version of a first edition published in 2016 (Paris, Textuel, coll. Petite Encyclopédie critique) which introduced the notion of 'glottophobie', Blanchet's term for this form of language-based violence, to a wide French readership (Blanchet & Conan, 2018). The author examines language discrimination within the specific context of French linguistic hegemony and nationalism. Indeed, for centuries, both spoken and written linguistic performances have been evaluated through the lens of the language spoken in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.The origins of linguistic nationalism can be found in the French Revolution of 1789, the aftermath of which created a political entity represented and unified by a culturally and linguistically homogeneous civic realm at the expense of several regional languages. It would be significant to note here that the first edition of Blanchet's book was followed by Je n'ai plus osé ouvrir la bouche… Témoignages de glottophobie vécue et moyens de se défendre -(I did not dare to open my mouth…Testimonies of lived language based violence and ways to defend oneself) -a collection of testimonies from those who have experienced 'glottophobie' in their personal and professional lives. This collection was published just before the famous 'affaire Mélenchon' (October 2018) provoked by the leader of the political party La France Insoumise who had publicly mocked a journalist for her regional (Toulouse) accent in an incident that was much mediatized, making 'glottophobie' a recognizable term in the public domain.

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Prejudice towards regional accents of Philippine English

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This study examines linguistic prejudice towards the accents of three regional varieties of Philippine English: Cebuano English, Ilocano English, and Tagalog English. Data were collected using a verbal-guise technique taken by 982 listener-judges, who were selected using a purposive sampling technique. Results showed an overall more favorable attitude towards Tagalog English. Cebuano English and Ilocano English speakers were judged as less socially attractive and less competent compared to their Tagalog English counterparts. In the multilingual Philippines, where languages in the periphery, i.e. languages other than English and Tagalog, face negative stereotypes, the results indicate potential linguistic prejudice towards accents that individuals view as deviating from the standard, i.e. the Tagalog English accent as ‘the’ standard of Philippine English. The findings are discussed in light of the ongoing observation of the development of Philippine English in the Schneiderian model of postcolonial Englishes.

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Consequences of perceived accent discrimination for psychological adjustment and resilience effects

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Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

Discriminations : Combattre la Glottophobie. Philippe Blanchet. Limoges: Lambert Lucas. 2019. 150 pp. Pb (ISBN978‐2‐3593‐281‐8). 15 euros

Prejudice towards regional accents of Philippine English

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