Pragmatics of Accents
Editors
| Simon Fraser University, Canada
| Simon Fraser University, Canada
What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power relationships are at work when we speak with what those around us perceive as an 'accent'? In the 12 chapters of this volume, an international group of sociolinguists, applied linguists, anthropologists, and scholars in media studies, develop an innovative approach that we describe as the ‘pragmatics of accents’. In this volume, we present a variety of languages and go beyond the traditional structural description of accents. From ideologies in national contexts, to L2 education, to accent discrimination in the media and the workplace, this volume embraces a new perspective that focuses on the use of accents as symbolic resources, and emphasizes the importance of context in the human experience of accents.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 327] 2021. vii, 266 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
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The pragmatics of accents: Making meanings in interactionGaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak | pp. 1–16
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Part 1. Ideologies of accents in national contexts
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Attitudes to accentsAlexei Prikhodkine | pp. 19–40
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Urban youth accents in France: Can a slight palatalization of /t/ and /d/ challenge French sociophonetics?Cyril Trimaille and Maria Candea | pp. 41–62
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Encountering accented others – and selves – in provincial JapanEdwin K. Everhart | pp. 63–84
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‘Could I have an appointment for a viewing?’: Language-based discrimination and apartment searches with different accents in GermanyInke Du Bois | pp. 85–114
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Part 2. Accents in second language education teaching and learning
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The pragmatic force of second language accent in educationJohn Levis and Shannon McCrocklin | pp. 117–140
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A lack of phonological inherentness: Perceptions of accents in UK educationAlex Baratta | pp. 141–162
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English-language attitudes and identities in Spain: Accent variation and the negotiation of possible selvesErin Carrie | pp. 163–186
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Part 3. Accents in the media and the workplace
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From I’m the One That I Want to Kim’s Convenience : The paradoxes and perils of implicit in-group “yellowvoicing”Hye Seung Chung | pp. 189–204
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Divine intervention: Multimodal pragmatics and unconventional opposition in performed character speech in Dragon Age: InquisitionEmily Villanueva and Astrid Ensslin | pp. 205–228
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In the ear of the beholder: How ethnicity of raters affects the perception of a foreign accentAlexandra Besoi Setzer, Elena Nicoladis and C. Lorelei Baquiran | pp. 229–244
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Concluding remarks
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From sound to social meaning: Investigating the pragmatic dimensions of accentsAnnette Boudreau and Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus | pp. 247–262
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Index | pp. 263–266
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics