Language, Society and Power

Wareing, Shân

doi:10.4324/9780203426968

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“…" (1994: 348). Thomas (1999) also distinguished between accent and dialect; for her, accent refers to pronunciation; she considered speaking in a regional accent as pronouncing the words in a manner associated with a certain geographical area, whereas dialect refers to grammar and vocabulary.…”

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Native Speakers' Perception of Non - Native English Speech

Jaber¹,

Hussein²

2011

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This study is aimed at investigating the rating and intelligibility of different non-native varieties of English, namely French English, Japanese English and Jordanian English by native English speakers and their attitudes towards these foreign accents. To achieve the goals of this study, the researchers used a web-based questionnaire which targeted native speakers of English. The materials for this study were a questionnaire for respondents to fill out and tape recordings of six different short stories, each of which was recorded by a non native speaker of English. The first short story was tape-recorded by a male French speaker and the second by a female French speaker. Similarly, the other four short stories were tape-recorded by male and female Japanese and Jordanian speakers respectively. The respondents or raters consisted of 110 native speakers of English (78 females and 32 females); the majority of them from the USA, but there were others from Britain, Canada, and Australia. They were requested to surf the webpage www. englishforeignaccent .com, especially designed by the researchers, fill out the questionnaire and rate the non-native varieties under investigation, and four months later the number of respondents reached one hundred and ten which constituted the sample of the study.Data obtained indicated that the Jordanian accent was considered as the most intelligible, followed by the French then the Japanese English accent. The native speakers also showed significantly more positive attitudes towards Jordanian English than French and Japanese English. Finally, the positive attitude towards Jordanian English was affirmed by the respondents who assigned the Jordanian English speakers to the most prestigious professions such as medicine and teaching.

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Native Speakers' Perception of Non - Native English Speech

Jaber¹,

Hussein²

2011

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“…Accordingly, there is a consistent relation between language and power (ibid.). Similarly, Thomas (2004) states that language is a fundamental tool which may turn power into virtue, and conformity into obligation. However, CDA does not look at language as powerful in its own right.…”

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Russia Today’s In-group and Out-group Presentation in the Syrian Crisis News Reports

Atatfa¹,

Al-Mamoory²

2017

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This paper presents a critical discourse analysis (henceforth, CDA) of the news items which tackled the Syrian crisis in the English-speaking Russian TV channel Russia Today (henceforth, RT). It aims to show the channel's polarization into its in-group and out-group of the reports that focused on the Syrian crisis. To achieve its aim, the study hypothesizes that: 1) RT utilizes discursive strategies in order to positively present its in-group (Russia, the Syrian regime, and its allies) and negatively present the out-group (the USA, Europe, and their allies) and 2) Russia's military involvement in Syria affected the way RT reports its Syrian crisis news. In order to test the two hypotheses, the study analyzes six reports that tackle the Syrian crisis from RT: three reports before and three after the Russian military involvement. After presenting a theoretical background of the field of CDA, the study follows two models by van Dijk, namely, the Ideological Square (1998), and Ideological Discourse Analysis (1995b) to analyze the data.

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“…For the purpose of this article, sociolinguistic variables may include but are not limited to gender, age, and social class (e.g., Thomas et al, 2004). Sociocultural variables are defined as the social values, beliefs, and norms that define a speech community.…”

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