Koreans, Chinese or Indians? Attitudes and ideologies about non‐native English speakers in the United States

Lindemann, Stephanie

doi:10.1111/1467-9481.00228

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“…One of the actors is a native US-English speaker from the mid-Atlantic region, and the other is a native Korean speaker. 4 Korean was selected as an appropriate foreign accent for the present study 5 , based on previous research showing that Korean English accents are seldom (approximately eight percent of the time) correctly identified in the US (Lindemann, 2003). The mid-Atlantic US accent was chosen because of its status as a neutral prestige regional dialect in the US (Frumkin, 2000;Frumkin, 2007).…”

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“…These methodologies generally employ personal interviews and questionnaires (e.g., Cargile & Giles, 1997;Frumkin, 2007;Lindemann, 2003), 16 such as the self-assessments associated with matched-guise tests (Lambert, 1967), which traditionally have been, and continue to be, the most prevalent method of measuring language attitudes. Among the limitations to such methodologies requiring introspection, however, are their reliance on the willingness and self-awareness of the participant, and their susceptibility to confounds for strategic responding (e.g., participants might not be willing to admit socially unacceptable attitudes they possess, or they may attempt to create a persona through their answers).…”

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“…Lindemann (2003), Niedzielski (1999), and Preston (1989) have all shown, however, that listeners regularly misidentify speakers' countries or regions of origin. In fact, the general lack of skill among listeners in accurately identifying foreign accents led Lindemann (2003) to conclude that there appears to be a general 'foreign' category for the bias, and that the initial and crucial distinction made by listeners appears to be based on whether or not the speaker is a native speaker, and not on the speaker's national identity. The attribution of specific phonological traits of an accent to an identified nationality is thus not necessary for a biased reaction.…”

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“…Gluszek & Dovidio, 2010;Lindemann, 2003). In consequence, a non-native speaker who speaks English with, for example, a Greek accent is more likely to be perceived as someone who is not very well organized, competent and disciplined, compared to a speaker with German-accented speech, who, by contrast, is more likely to be evaluated as respectable, serious and hardworking.…”

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How non-native English-speaking staff are evaluated in linguistically diverse organizations: A sociolinguistic perspective

Śliwa

Johansson

2014

J Int Bus Stud

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The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of evaluations of non-native speaking staff's spoken English in international business settings. We adopt a sociolinguistic perspective on power and inequalities in linguistically diverse organizations in an Anglophone environment. The interpretive qualitative study draws on 54 interviews with non-native English speaking staff in 19 UK business schools. We analyze, along the dimensions of status, solidarity and dynamism, the ways in which nonnative speakers, on the basis of their spoken English, are evaluated by themselves and by listeners.We show how such evaluations refer to issues beyond the speaker's linguistic fluency, and have consequences for her or his actions. The study contributes to the literature on language and power in international business through offering fine-grained insights into and elucidating how the interconnected evaluative processes impact the formation and perpetuation of organizational power relations and inequalities. It also puts forward implications for managing the officially monolingual, yet linguistically diverse organizations.

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“…Because of the global spread of English and considerable immigration to English-speaking countries, the majority of such investigations focus on the perception of non-native English by native speakers of this language (e.g. Munro and Derwing 1995, Lippi-Green 1997, Bresnahan et al 2002, Lindemann 2003, Gonet and Pietroń 2004, Van den Doel 2006, Said 2006. Nevertheless, some foreign-accented versions of other languages have also come under scrutiny (e.g.…”

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Foreign Accents in Polish: Non-native Speakers’ and Native Listeners’ Views

Szpyra-Kozłowska¹,

Radomski²

2013

Research in Language

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Abstract As in recent years a growing number of foreigners have been settling in Poland and learning our language, Poles have found themselves in a fairly new situation of being increasingly exposed, both in direct contacts and through the media, to their mother tongue pronounced with a variety of foreign accents. In a series of studies (Szpyra- Kozłowska and Radomski 2012, in press, Szpyra-Kozłowska 2013b) we have undertaken an examination of how such accents are perceived and evaluated by Polish listeners. The issues that have come under scrutiny so far concerned identification of the speakers’ origin, evaluation of different accents in terms of their intelligibility, degree of accentedness and acceptance, establishing the major perceptual properties of several accents and examining their salience. In the present paper we focus on the participants of communication which involves accented Polish, i.e. non-native speakers and native listeners, and their views on this phenomenon. We examine them in two questionnaire studies, one administered to 40 foreign learners of Polish and the other one to 80 native listeners. Thus, our study sets itself the following goals: to examine what attitudes Poles take towards Polish-speaking foreigners and their accents in particular (Questionnaire 2); to juxtapose these opinions with foreign learners’ experience of Poles’ reactions to accented Polish (Questionnaire 1); to draw implications for the phonetic training of foreigners who undertake to learn Polish.

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Koreans, Chinese or Indians? Attitudes and ideologies about non‐native English speakers in the United States

Cited by 180 publications

References 16 publications

Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Foreign Accented Speech

Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Foreign Accented Speech

How non-native English-speaking staff are evaluated in linguistically diverse organizations: A sociolinguistic perspective

Foreign Accents in Polish: Non-native Speakers’ and Native Listeners’ Views

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