Publications

Publication details [#61663]

Giles, Howard, Dana E. Mastro, Marco Dragojevic and Alexander Sink. 2016. Silencing nonstandard speakers: A content analysis of accent portrayals on American primetime television. Language in Society 45 (1) : 59–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | language attitude | representational structure | stereotype | television

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Biased American media's accent portrayals (of Standard American (SA), Nonstandard American (NSA), Foreign-Anglo (FA), and Foreign-Other (FO)) render acute societal stereotypes. NSA and FO speakers' television appearance is rare, and they are less propitiously depicted as to status-linked traits and looks.