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Pragmatics of Accents
Edited by Gaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 327] 2021
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Acknowledgments vii
The Pragmatics of accents: Making meanings in interaction 1
Part 1.Ideologies of accents in national contexts 17
Attitudes to accents 19
Urban youth accents in France: Can a slight palatalization of /t/ and /d/ challenge French sociophonetics? 41
Encountering accented others – and selves – in provincial Japan 63
“Could I have an appointment for a viewing?”: Language-based discrimination and apartment searches with different accents 85
Part 2.Accents in second language teaching and learning 115
The pragmatic force of L2 accents in education 117
A lack of phonological inherentness: Perceptions of accents in British education 141
English-language identities in Spain: Using accent variation to negotiate possible selves in the L2 163
Part 3.Accents in the media and the workplace 187
From I’m the One That I Want to Kim’s Convenience: The paradoxes and perils of implicit in-group “yellowvoicing” 189
Divine intervention: Multimodal pragmatics and unconventional opposition in performed character speech in Dragon Age: Inquisition 205
In the ear of the beholder: How ethnicity of raters affects the perception of a foreign accent 229
Concluding remarks 245
From sound to social meaning: Investigating the pragmatic dimensions of accents 247
Index 263


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