Hi Dave,
I haven't done anything exactly in the area you mention, but I have certainly done work with regard to accent perception and subsequently, speaker perception. Happy to share, but I realise what you're looking for is perhaps more along the lines of the same speech, but with different accents. I totally agree though that a change of accent can change our perceptions and regard for the person and take them more/less seriously
Alex
Dr. Alex Baratta, PhD
Manchester Institute of Education
The University of Manchester
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/alex.baratta/
New publications
Link to my upcoming book chapter (2018): http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319729190
Baratta, A. (2018). Accent and teacher identity in Britain: Linguistic favouritism and imposed identities. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/accent-and-teacher-identity-in-britain-9781350054929/
Baratta, A. (2017). Accent and linguistic prejudice in British teacher training. Journal of Language, Identity and Education. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/cIN5BnuJj7MPfVaxgxbf/full
Personal sites and blogs
http://www.accentpride.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-baratta-5a78196a/
http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2017/06/putting-an-accent-on-things-the-need-to-clarify-speech-expectations-for-british-teachers/
https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/clarifying-accent-standards-for-british-teachers
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1. perceptual studies re-recording standard voices in nonstandard accents (3)
2. Linguistic Landscape homework assignment? (5)
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:04:18 +0100
From: Dave Sayers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: perceptual studies re-recording standard voices in nonstandard accents
Hi folks,
I'm a hopeless addict of political programmes, and on a recent edition of The Daily
Politics I heard Jacob Rees-Mogg (deliciously nicknamed 'Minister for the Eighteenth
Century' on account of his singularly antiquated RP accent, among other relic
behaviours) describe the issue of the post-Brexit Irish border as "really easy", with
a breezy light-heartedness that rendered any actual evidence superfluous. Well,
that's that then, it's really easy! Who knew?
I got to thinking a not very original thought: what if his cut glass RP were instead
a distinctive nonstandard accent? What if the Twitterati could latch on to his
hilarious yawning vowels and missing consonants to deride his argument, as they do
with the likes of Angela Rayner? How persuasive would he (and his silver-spooned ilk)
be then? Standard sociolinguistic speculation for a midweek afternoon. But then my
train of thought trundled along to the next station: has something like that actually
been done in experimental conditions? Have there been re-recordings of persuasive
language, originally delivered in a standard accent, rendered into one or more
nonstandard varieties, in order to test how persuasive people find each one? It seems
like a reasonably straightforward verbal guise experiment to set up. And it could be
done in any language with any kind of vernacular prestige hierarchy.
Does anyone know of anything along these lines? I'd love to use it in teaching about
accent and inequality.
Thanks,
Dave
--
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Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
Communications Secretary, BAAL Language Policy group | www.langpol.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:02:21 +0000
From: "Kuha, Mai" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: perceptual studies re-recording standard voices in nonstandard accents
More or less related:
Luhman, Reid. "Appalachian English stereotypes: language attitudes in Kentucky." Language in Society 19.3 (1990): 331-348.
Dailey©\O'Cain, Jennifer. "The sociolinguistic distribution of and attitudes toward focuser like and quotative like." Journal of Sociolinguistics 4.1 (2000): 60-80.
Aalberg, Toril, and Anders Todal Jenssen. "Gender stereotyping of political candidates." Nordicom Review 28.1 (2007): 17-32.
Mai
--
Mai Kuha
Department of English
Ball State University
On 4/16/18, 6:05 AM, "Teaching Linguistics on behalf of Dave Sayers" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> on behalf of [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm a hopeless addict of political programmes, and on a recent edition of The Daily Politics I heard Jacob Rees-Mogg (deliciously nicknamed 'Minister for the Eighteenth Century' on account of his singularly antiquated RP accent, among other relic behaviours) describe the issue of the post-Brexit Irish border as "really easy", with a breezy light-heartedness that rendered any actual evidence superfluous. Well, that's that then, it's really easy! Who knew?
I got to thinking a not very original thought: what if his cut glass RP were instead a distinctive nonstandard accent? What if the Twitterati could latch on to his hilarious yawning vowels and missing consonants to deride his argument, as they do with the likes of Angela Rayner? How persuasive would he (and his silver-spooned ilk) be then? Standard sociolinguistic speculation for a midweek afternoon. But then my train of thought trundled along to the next station: has something like that actually been done in experimental conditions? Have there been re-recordings of persuasive language, originally delivered in a standard accent, rendered into one or more nonstandard varieties, in order to test how persuasive people find each one? It seems like a reasonably straightforward verbal guise experiment to set up. And it could be done in any language with any kind of vernacular prestige hierarchy.
Does anyone know of anything along these lines? I'd love to use it in teaching about accent and inequality.
Thanks,
Dave
--
Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shu.ac.uk&data=02%7C01%7Cmkuha%40BSU.EDU%7Cd6c42f475f3243297bab08d5a3819283%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C636594699264452607&sdata=jmeCLDqK9Wsj1%2BI3uXmfGNMrE22I3EypFXSZ%2B0yujFY%3D&reserved=0>
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:13:27 -0500
From: Jim Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: perceptual studies re-recording standard voices in nonstandard accents
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:10:02 +0000
From: Christine Mallinson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Linguistic Landscape homework assignment?
Hello TeachLingers,
For the first time I am going to assign a few linguistic landscape articles
in an upcoming class. I'd like to pair a homework assignment with it --
ideally one in which the students go out into their own environments and do
a linguistic landscape analysis.
Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have any instructions for such an
assignment that you'd be willing to share?
Thanks in advance!
Christine
--
Christine Mallinson, PhD <http://christinemallinson.com/>
Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture <http://llc.umbc.edu/>
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) <http://umbc.edu/>
Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools
<https://charityhudleymallinson.com/book/>
Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, 2e
<http://sociolinguisticdatacollection.com/>
We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English
Classroom <https://charityhudleymallinson.com/wdl/>
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:23:53 +0000
From: Joe Salmons <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Linguistic Landscape homework assignment?
Thanks for raising this question. I¡¯ve tried something like that on a very small scale. We aren¡¯t reading linguistic landscape literature, but I do a class on language and immigration in Wisconsin and have students find stuff in Madison or other places. This is a writing intensive course, so it¡¯s one of a big set of homeworks, ca. 1000 words. Assignment below, without the set of example pics I give them. So, I¡¯m really hoping other people have ideas and formulations I can steal!
Joe
=====
This assignment asks you to look around you for languages other than English that are being used and to think about how and why they are being used.
The assignment is simple:
¡¤ Find examples of languages other than English being used either in Madison or elsewhere in the state (some of that can be done online). 3-5 pictures would easily be enough, but two or even one can work if they are rich enough. You can do this with literal signs but you can also draw on other kinds of public presence of languages ¡ª radio broadcasting, things engraved on buildings, and so on. You can even look at places where languages are used, like this project: https://languagecapitalproject.wordpress.com/ . This stuff is everywhere and I¡¯ve given a couple of examples on the next page.
¡¤ Describe the examples you have, in terms of where they are (context), what they say (content, if you know or can find out) and who you think the intended audience is.
Explain what the purposes of these examples are, as far as you can tell. In some cases they are historical signs that have endured (e.g. churches with German or Norwegian engraved in stone), sometimes they serve real communication (e.g. bus instructions (below) or warnings about eating fish from local lakes written in Spanish and Hmong, see p. 144 of Wisconsin Talk), and sometimes they are for commercial or tourist purposes (German in the Rathskeller, Swiss German signs in New Glarus, Norwegian signs in Westby, example below). Some may be more complex, like our sign from St. Vincent De Paul on Willy St, with English, Spanish, Hmong and Ho-Chunk. Some are just weird, like the picture about ¡®thinkers¡¯ on the next page ¡ I know three of the languages (besides English) on that door and they all have serious mistakes.
======
> On Apr 16, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Christine Mallinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello TeachLingers,
>
> For the first time I am going to assign a few linguistic landscape articles in an upcoming class. I'd like to pair a homework assignment with it -- ideally one in which the students go out into their own environments and do a linguistic landscape analysis.
>
> Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have any instructions for such an assignment that you'd be willing to share?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Christine
>
> --
> Christine Mallinson, PhD
> Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
> Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools
> Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, 2e
> We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:52:01 +0000
From: Eric Henry <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Linguistic Landscape homework assignment?
Christine,
I teach a 3rd-year course called Language Issues in Canada, and included a linguistic landscape exercise as a methodological component. I¡¯ve had trouble locating a short, approachable article to the idea of linguistic landscapes, so if you have suggestions please share.
For their assignments, students are asked to locate and photograph at least three instances of non-English, or non-standard English, signage in our city (which is, along with our campus, fairly multilingual, so it isn¡¯t a great challenge to find examples). I then create a customized google map (https://www.google.com/mymaps) and send students the link so that they can upload the images and tag them to locations. Then everyone can see all of the examples collected by members of the class. Each image has a marker associated with it, and by clicking on the markers, students can view the image and associated contextual information. Their written assignment is then as follows: ¡°In a 3-4 page paper, choose a selection of relevant images from the dataset and discuss their history, audience, and meaning: what do they say, who are they meant for and what do they mean in the context of Canadian multilingualism?¡± I also include links to census data from Statistics Canada (which can be searched by neighbourhood) to get a sense of where populations of non-native English speakers live in the city.
I am still tweaking the assignment for next year, but I hope that gives some ideas about how to proceed.
Regards,
Eric Henry
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Saint Mary¡¯s University
Halifax, NS Canada
From: Teaching Linguistics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christine Mallinson
Sent: April-16-18 12:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Linguistic Landscape homework assignment?
Hello TeachLingers,
For the first time I am going to assign a few linguistic landscape articles in an upcoming class. I'd like to pair a homework assignment with it -- ideally one in which the students go out into their own environments and do a linguistic landscape analysis.
Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have any instructions for such an assignment that you'd be willing to share?
Thanks in advance!
Christine
--
Christine Mallinson, PhD<http://christinemallinson.com/>
Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture<http://llc.umbc.edu/>
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)<http://umbc.edu/>
Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools<https://charityhudleymallinson.com/book/>
Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, 2e<http://sociolinguisticdatacollection.com/>
We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom<https://charityhudleymallinson.com/wdl/>
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:53:41 -0400
From: Gareth Price <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Linguistic Landscape homework assignment?
Hi all,
Google Street View can be a really useful way of doing LL work in contexts
that are richly multilingual, but to which you don't necessarily have
access. For a really "thick" description, actually "being there" is
important as well, but sometimes that's not practical.
Best,
Gareth
___________________________________________
Dr Gareth Price
Visiting Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Linguistics Program
Duke University
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Joe Salmons <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for raising this question. I¡¯ve tried something like that on a very
> small scale. We aren¡¯t reading linguistic landscape literature, but I do a
> class on language and immigration in Wisconsin and have students find stuff
> in Madison or other places. This is a writing intensive course, so it¡¯s one
> of a big set of homeworks, ca. 1000 words. Assignment below, without the
> set of example pics I give them. So, I¡¯m really hoping other people have
> ideas and formulations I can steal!
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> =====
>
> This assignment asks you to look around you for languages other than
> English that are being used and to think about how and why they are being
> used.
>
>
>
> The assignment is simple:
>
>
>
> ¡¤ Find examples of languages other than English being used either in
> Madison or elsewhere in the state (some of that can be done online). 3-5
> pictures would easily be enough, but two or even one can work if they are
> rich enough. You can do this with literal signs but you can also draw on
> other kinds of public presence of languages ¡ª radio broadcasting, things
> engraved on buildings, and so on. You can even look at places where
> languages are used, like this project: https://urldefense.proofpoint.
> com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languagecapitalproject.wordpress.com_&d=DwIGaQ&c=
> imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=
> biffGJZ3NMrFQauTpwD2ccgjy0cIKgCTW6yPouAANfY&m=
> AzNIwzAdBfZb87ebrifE8VAYhB9pu7c-lU7R6_Y5jCE&s=92tAl5McJBCFV6mCGGnE_
> dEHYBUsHh9rijPEqAmU3Z4&e= . This stuff is everywhere and I¡¯ve given a
> couple of examples on the next page.
>
>
>
> ¡¤ Describe the examples you have, in terms of where they are
> (context), what they say (content, if you know or can find out) and who you
> think the intended audience is.
>
>
>
> Explain what the purposes of these examples are, as far as you can tell.
> In some cases they are historical signs that have endured (e.g. churches
> with German or Norwegian engraved in stone), sometimes they serve real
> communication (e.g. bus instructions (below) or warnings about eating fish
> from local lakes written in Spanish and Hmong, see p. 144 of Wisconsin
> Talk), and sometimes they are for commercial or tourist purposes (German in
> the Rathskeller, Swiss German signs in New Glarus, Norwegian signs in
> Westby, example below). Some may be more complex, like our sign from St.
> Vincent De Paul on Willy St, with English, Spanish, Hmong and Ho-Chunk.
> Some are just weird, like the picture about ¡®thinkers¡¯ on the next page ¡ I
> know three of the languages (besides English) on that door and they all
> have serious mistakes.
>
> ======
>
>
>
> > On Apr 16, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Christine Mallinson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > Hello TeachLingers,
>
> >
>
> > For the first time I am going to assign a few linguistic landscape
> articles in an upcoming class. I'd like to pair a homework assignment with
> it -- ideally one in which the students go out into their own environments
> and do a linguistic landscape analysis.
>
> >
>
> > Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have any instructions for such
> an assignment that you'd be willing to share?
>
> >
>
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> > Christine
>
> >
>
> > --
>
> > Christine Mallinson, PhD
>
> > Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture
>
> > University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
>
> > Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools
>
> > Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, 2e
>
> > We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English
> Classroom
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:09:09 +0000
From: Kathryn Remlinger <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Linguistic Landscape homework assignment?
To add to Gareth's comment about Google Street, using social media also is a way to view multimodal linguistic landscapes. For example, a student in my World Englishes class conducted a study of "Chinglish" in the linguistic landscape of Xian by using images she found online. She augmented this with her experience from living in Xian. In my sociolinguistics class, students use Pinterest to examine the linguistic landscapes of various cities. This assignment is based on one about enregisterment that Suzanne Evans Wanger published in American Speech several years ago. I'll send related assignment descriptions later.
Kate
Kathryn Remlinger, PhD
Professor of English: Linguistics
243 Lake Huron Hall
Department of English<http://www.gvsu.edu/english><http://www.gvsu.edu>
Grand Valley State University<http://www.gvsu.edu>
Allendale, MI 49401 USA
tel: 1-616-331-3122
fax: 1-616-331-3430
________________________________
From: Teaching Linguistics [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Gareth Price [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 12:53 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Linguistic Landscape homework assignment?
Hi all,
Google Street View can be a really useful way of doing LL work in contexts that are richly multilingual, but to which you don't necessarily have access. For a really "thick" description, actually "being there" is important as well, but sometimes that's not practical.
Best,
Gareth
___________________________________________
Dr Gareth Price
Visiting Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Linguistics Program
Duke University
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Joe Salmons <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Thanks for raising this question. I¡¯ve tried something like that on a very small scale. We aren¡¯t reading linguistic landscape literature, but I do a class on language and immigration in Wisconsin and have students find stuff in Madison or other places. This is a writing intensive course, so it¡¯s one of a big set of homeworks, ca. 1000 words. Assignment below, without the set of example pics I give them. So, I¡¯m really hoping other people have ideas and formulations I can steal!
Joe
=====
This assignment asks you to look around you for languages other than English that are being used and to think about how and why they are being used.
The assignment is simple:
¡¤ Find examples of languages other than English being used either in Madison or elsewhere in the state (some of that can be done online). 3-5 pictures would easily be enough, but two or even one can work if they are rich enough. You can do this with literal signs but you can also draw on other kinds of public presence of languages ¡ª radio broadcasting, things engraved on buildings, and so on. You can even look at places where languages are used, like this project: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languagecapitalproject.wordpress.com_&d=DwIGaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=biffGJZ3NMrFQauTpwD2ccgjy0cIKgCTW6yPouAANfY&m=AzNIwzAdBfZb87ebrifE8VAYhB9pu7c-lU7R6_Y5jCE&s=92tAl5McJBCFV6mCGGnE_dEHYBUsHh9rijPEqAmU3Z4&e= . This stuff is everywhere and I¡¯ve given a couple of examples on the next page.
¡¤ Describe the examples you have, in terms of where they are (context), what they say (content, if you know or can find out) and who you think the intended audience is.
Explain what the purposes of these examples are, as far as you can tell. In some cases they are historical signs that have endured (e.g. churches with German or Norwegian engraved in stone), sometimes they serve real communication (e.g. bus instructions (below) or warnings about eating fish from local lakes written in Spanish and Hmong, see p. 144 of Wisconsin Talk), and sometimes they are for commercial or tourist purposes (German in the Rathskeller, Swiss German signs in New Glarus, Norwegian signs in Westby, example below). Some may be more complex, like our sign from St. Vincent De Paul on Willy St, with English, Spanish, Hmong and Ho-Chunk. Some are just weird, like the picture about ¡®thinkers¡¯ on the next page ¡ I know three of the languages (besides English) on that door and they all have serious mistakes.
======
> On Apr 16, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Christine Mallinson <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Hello TeachLingers,
>
> For the first time I am going to assign a few linguistic landscape articles in an upcoming class. I'd like to pair a homework assignment with it -- ideally one in which the students go out into their own environments and do a linguistic landscape analysis.
>
> Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have any instructions for such an assignment that you'd be willing to share?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Christine
>
> --
> Christine Mallinson, PhD
> Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
> Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools
> Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, 2e
> We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom
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