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Publication details [#66861]

Rotter, Christoph E. 2019. Cognitive categorisations of language: how EFL students’ (mis-)identifications of three British accents engender stereotypic attributions. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (9) : 801–817.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
accent1 | categorization | evaluation | foreign language acquisition | language attitude | language variety | speaker | stereotype | student | university
Language as a subject
English, British
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Language attitudes involve two sequential cognitive processes: categorisation and stereotyping. This inquiry exposes the impact of self-reported accent identifications on speaker evaluations. It explored attributions to three L1 varieties of British English among Austrian university students (n?=?268) who are learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL).