Americans' Attitudes toward Foreign Accents: Evaluative Hierarchies and Underlying Processes

Autor/inn/en	Dragojevic, Marko; Goatley-Soan, Sean
Titel	Americans' Attitudes toward Foreign Accents: Evaluative Hierarchies and Underlying Processes
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 43 (2022) 2, S.167-181 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dragojevic, Marko)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2020.1735402
Schlagwörter	North Americans; Language Attitudes; Standard Spoken Usage; Pronunciation; Language Variation; Vietnamese; Semitic Languages; Indo European Languages; German; Spanish; Mandarin Chinese; Russian; Native Language; Correlation; Classification; Foreign Countries; Language Processing; Intelligibility; Social Status; English (Second Language); North American English; French + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverhalten; Gesprochene Sprache; Umgangssprache; Aussprache; Sprachenvielfalt; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Indoeuropäisch; Deutscher; Spanisch; Russisch; Korrelation; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Ausland; Sprachverarbeitung; Sozialer Status; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Amerikanisches Englisch; Französisch
Abstract	This study examined Americans' attitudes toward standard American English (SAE) and nine, non-Anglo foreign accents: Arabic, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Hispanic, Mandarin, Russian, and Vietnamese. Compared to SAE speakers, all foreign-accented speakers were rated as harder to understand, more likely to be categorised as foreign (rather than American), and attributed less status and solidarity. However, not all foreign accents were equally denigrated on status and solidarity traits. Instead, an evaluative hierarchy emerged, with speakers of some varieties (e.g. French, German) consistently rated more favourably than speakers of others (e.g. Arabic, Farsi, Vietnamese). This variation in language attitudes was associated with variation in social categorisation -- i.e. the higher the percentage of nonstigmatized foreign categorizations (i.e. Anglosphere, Western Europe) for a given foreign variety, the more favourably speakers of that variety were rated -- and listeners' processing fluency -- i.e. the easier speakers of a given foreign variety were to understand, the more favourably they were rated. (As Provided).
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