Accent

African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. During Barbara Jordan's speech the listener can hear the accent, pace and repetition Barbara Jordan uses, while the reader can not. Reading a speech is different from listening to a speech because when listening one can…

Accent Discrimination Maria, a Spanish-speaking female, has been denied promotion in favor of Alex, A white male. Although Maria and Alex both have graduate degrees, Maria has more tenure with the company and is the more experienced employee. However, Alex has received higher evaluation scores than Maria. Maria has filed a discrimination complaint against the company alleging that her low evaluation scores were due to the built in bias of her white male supervisors. Furthermore, Maria…

In this article written by Lindsay Hanley she discusses what she considers to be something to worry about: trainee teachers, particularly from Northern England, are being asked to talk with a more neutral accent putting aside or modifying their regional accents so students can understand them better and becoming “role models” for the children. She bases her argument mainly in a research done by Dr Alexander Baratta on which he states that this “linguistic prejudice” is unhealthy for our culture…

Native Americans they see represented on-screen. Media representations of Natives are almost always inaccurate and exaggerated. Unfortunately, these false representations are what made led me away from parts of my own avowed cultural identity like my accent. Growing up, for some unknown reason, my father would watch old Hollywood westerns. Westerns were bar far his favorite genre of film the point that our family vacations were dedicated to touring old western filming locations like Monument…

intelligible as to them. Also, the idea of students prefers to have an accent of non-native speakers to sound like them which is makes me supersized, the non-native speaker 's view. In my opinion, I agree with these perspectives for several reasons and disagree with the idea of having native 's English speakers accent. First of all, like me as non-native speakers, I do not see that all native speakers are intelligible to sound like their accent. For…

English in the accent of his cultural background. The text read by him was taken from a book with the same title as his piece, Foe. The Book, Foe, was written by J. M. Coetzee, which is a sequel to Robinson Cruseo. “In this book, Friday (the savage) has been multilated; his tongue has been removed and he cannot speak.” Fernandes was trying to memorize the specific story where Cruose expained this to others. In the video, he read some of the sentences several times with a different accent from…

students that have a linguistic competence of English and have an accent or a dialect. Would this have any type of affect when doing procedures? Is there any research that shows that audiologists or SLPs with a “different” dialect or accent would affect those who need their treatment? “There is no research to support the belief that audiologists and speech-language pathologists who speak a nonstandard dialect or who speak with an accent are unable to make appropriate diagnostic decisions…”…

differences in our language occur for many reasons such colonisation, immigration or invasion and can affect the dialect or accent that someone may have. Dialect The main question that is asked often is: What is a dialect and how does this affect the way in which language can vary. Dialect is an umbrella term used for a variety of linguistics features one of which is an Accent. A dialect is a feature of speech which varies across England and is dependent on where an individual has resided their…

Conservative received pronunciation, upper-crust received pronunciation or simply U-RP is likely one of the most fascinating accents of English. According to Peter Trudgill's estimation in 1974 only 3% of British population were considered being true RP speakers. Received pronunciation is, in fact, a minority accent. Consequently, conservative RP, as its less used and more archaic variety, has even fewer speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to outline the concept of a social…

She makes it clear that accents indicate an individual’s ethnic group, background, socioeconomic status and more. Nguyen reinforces the fact that attitudes towards individuals (immigrants or international students) of Non-Standard English are often unfavourable. For this reason, individuals with accents have numerous informal and formal networks such as tutors and educational institutions in order to reduce the…