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Like the rest of us, grammarians are able to recognise many prejudices in other people, but only some of their own. I am thinking of two in particular: first, the prejudice that one dialect is inherently better or worse than another.
Jan 29, 2024 · However, prejudices remain and nonstandard varieties were often negatively evaluated and deemed broken or incorrect. When people hold strong perceptions about language, those perceptions can feed into linguistic racism, or racism based on accent, dialect, and speech patterns.
Jun 3, 2021 · What happens when accent discrimination creeps in to our conscious and unconscious – and what do we do about our biases? Not everyone who speaks English is treated the same way.
As an introduction to the themed special volume on Language and Prejudice, this short editorial highlights aspects related to prejudice within , through, and towards language as well as how prejudice and stereotyping can affect our perception of language.
- Mats Deutschmann, Anders Steinvall
- 2020
- Flawed Argument
- Contemporary Prevalence
- Linguistic Prejudice
Pegging “ax” as a mark of laziness or ignorance presumes that saying “aks” is easier than saying “ask”. If this were the case, we would – and we never do – hear “desk”, “flask” and “pesky” pronounced “deks”, “flaks” and “peksy”. The “s” and “k” being interchanged in “aks” and “ask” is an instance of what linguists call metathesis – a process which ...
In North America, “aks” (or “ax”) was widely used in New England and the southern and middle states. In the late 19th century, however, it became stereotyped as exclusive to African American English, in which it remains prevalent. American linguist John McWhorter considers it an “integral part of being a black American”. Today, “aks” is also found ...
Accents or dialects have no logical or scientific claim to “correctness”. Instead, any prestige of which they might boast derives from being spoken by high-status groups. Many people now wag their finger at the word “ain’t” or at people dropping the “g”, rendering words like “running” as “runnin’”, and “jumping” as “jumpin’”. In, 2020, British home...
Mar 9, 2024 · In this paper, we present specific conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of linguistic discrimination, with a focus on linguistic discrimination resulting from implicit attitudes and the steadily growing research on biases and structural approaches to social injustice.
Aug 2, 2023 · Linguistic racism constitutes the intersection of language, race/ism, and in/equality, as seen in racialized discourses on the relative status of languages and bi/multilingual language use, particularly as these are directed toward non-dominant language speakers.
