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Kalin, Rudolf and Donald Rayko. 1980. The social significance of speech in the job interview. In St.Clair, Robert N. and Howard Giles, eds. The social and psychological contexts of language. L. Erlbaum. pp. 39–50.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | communicative effect | dialect2 | ethnicity | job interview

Annotation

K. and R. try to determine the effects of the ethnicity of speakers, as revealed in accents, on judgments of suitability in job interviews, and to establish the relationship between listener attitudes and the evaluation of accented speech.