"I'm a Bad Asian": Stance Acts and Stylistic Moves Among American-Born-Chinese Preadolescents in a New York City Neighborhood

Wong, Amy Wing-mei

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“…ASIAN AMERICAN SPEECH AND ETHNORACIAL PERCEPTION. Part of a long line of sociolinguistic research on ethnolects (i.e., constellations of shared norms for linguistic features in speech communities defined along ethnoracial lines; see Labov 1972a,b;Wolfram 1974;Eckert 2008b), a growing number of sociophonetic studies in recent years have examined speech and language variation in Asian American speech communities, including Chinese Americans and Korean Americans in different regions of the US (Wong 2007;Hall-Lew 2009;Hall-Lew & Starr 2010;Wong & Hall-Lew 2014;Cheng et al in press). Most of these studies have focused on one ethnicity (for a detailed review of this literature, see Cheng et al 2022), meaning that there is relatively little research that has considered multiple Asian American ethnicities within the same region simultaneously or, indeed, the possibility of an "Asian American" ethnolect.…”

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On the auditory identifiability of Asian American identity in speech: The role of listener background, sociolinguistic awareness, and language ideologies

Chang

Fraser

2023

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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The current study examined the auditory identifiability of Asian American ethnoracial identity, including the role of listener characteristics and ideologies. Results of an identification experiment showed that the overall accuracy of ethnoracial identification on (East and Southeast) Asian talkers was low, but not the lowest among talker groups and not significantly different from accuracy on Black talkers. There were also significant effects of listeners' ethnoracial identity, gender, and linguistic chauvinism (i.e., disfavoring linguistic diversity in the US). In particular, being Asian or a woman was associated with a higher likelihood of accuracy, whereas greater linguistic chauvinism was, to an extent, associated with a lower likelihood of accuracy. Results of a discrimination experiment additionally showed an effect of listeners' awareness of ethnoracially-based language variation: having this awareness was associated with a higher likelihood of accuracy on discrimination trials with one or more Asian talkers. Taken together, these findings converge with previous results showing an effect of the listener's background on ethnoracial perception and further implicate the listener's sociolinguistic awareness and ideologies.

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