"What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power relationships are at work when we speak with what those around us perceive as an "accent"? In the 12 chapters of this volume, an international group of sociolinguists, applied linguists, anthropologists, and scholars in media studies, develop an innovative approach that we describe as the 'pragmatics of accents'. In this edition, we present a variety of languages and go beyond the traditional structural description of accents. From ideologies in national contexts, to L2 education, to accent discrimination in the media and the workplace, this volume embraces a new perspective that focuses on the use of accents as symbolic resources, and emphasizes the importance of context in the human experience of accents"--.

• Pragmatics of Accents
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• The pragmatics of accents: Making meanings in interaction
  • 1. To have/to take an accent: What does the context of interaction tell us
    • “Taking”/“faking” an accent
    • “Having”/ “losing” an accent
  • 2. What is the pragmatics of accents?
    • Defining accent
    • Defining pragmatics
    • Pragmatics of Accents: Making meaning in accented interactions
  • 3. A few key concepts from the Pragmatics of Accents’ toolbox
    • Ideology and attitudes
    • Perception and interpretation
    • Production and performance
  • 4. Overview of this volume
    • Part I: Ideologies of accents in national contexts
    • Part II: Prominence of accent ideologies in education and Second Language teaching and learning
    • Part III: The role of accents in media and the workplace contexts
  • References
• Part 1. Ideologies of accents in national contexts
• Attitudes to accents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The social background of language regard
  • 3. Study of language regard
    • 3.1 On the side of social determinism
    • 3.2 Context and social determinism
    • 3.3 Social constructionism
  • 4. Foreign accent and local accent: An impossible mixture?
    • 4.1 Context of the study
    • 4.2 Methods
    • 4.3 Some results
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Urban youth accents in France: Can a slight palatalization of /t/ and /d/ challenge French sociophonetics?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. “Banlieue” and “jeune de banlieue”: Controversial categories despite their increased recognition
  • 3. Features perceived/described as constitutive of the pronunciation style of young urban speakers in metropolitan France
  • 4. A pronunciation variant described in research as emblematic of the French “suburban youth accent”: The palatalization of /t/ and /d/ before /i/ and /y/
    • Two competing hypotheses
    • Production
    • Perception
  • 5. Final discussion and conclusion
  • References
• Encountering accented others – and selves – in provincial Japan
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Touhoku language and standardized Japanese
  • 3. Recent conditions
  • 4. Linguistic features
  • 5. Differentiating types of language
  • 6. Kumagai’s numbers
  • 7. Namattenee
  • 8. Zukku
  • 9. Performance, perception, and co-operation
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Funding
  • References
• ‘Could I have an appointment for a viewing?’: Language-based discrimination and apartment searches with different accents in Germany
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical background
    • Linguistic discrimination in social life and housing
    • Linguistic discrimination in housing
  • 3. Methodological background
    • Participants
    • Statistical procedure
    • The request for an apartment viewing and accent
    • Selected phonological features of Turkish accented Speech
    • Selected phonological features of US American accented German
  • 4. The German immigration context
    • Turkish migration in Germany
    • US American migration in Germany
    • Bremen demographic information
  • 5. Results
  • 6. Discussion
    • Analyses of applicant calls
    • Feedback with real estate agents
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• Part 2. Accents in second language education teaching and learning
• The pragmatic force of second language accent in education
  • 1. Ways of speaking and second language accent
  • 2. Data collection
  • 3. What is an accent?
  • 4. Influence of age in pronunciation learning
  • 5. The pragmatic force of second language accent
    • International teaching assistants in North American University classrooms
    • Accent and Second language teacher education
  • 6. Finding your voice and establishing an identity in the L2
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
• A lack of phonological inherentness: Perceptions of accents in UK education
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contextualisation of the study: Sociocultural attitudes to accents and a suggested trichotomy of UK accents
    • A lack of inherentness in accents
    • A trichotomy of UK accents
  • 3. Previous studies on accent reduction
    • Study one participants
    • Study two participants
    • Interviews
    • Study three participants
  • 4. Discussion of the results: Three cases of teachers’ accent reduction
    • The case of T1: A desire to retain one’s working-class roots through accent
    • The case of T7: Agreement on what constitutes a ‘professional’ accent in teaching
    • The case of T20: Linguistic pride
  • 5. Implications of the study for UK teaching
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendices
• English-language attitudes and identities in Spain: Accent variation and the negotiation of possible selves
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical background: Attitudes and identities in L2 learning
    • Attitude-behaviour relations in language
    • L2 learner identities
    • Language ideologies in Spain
  • 3. Methods and procedures
  • 4. Findings on attitude-behaviour relations in language
  • 5. Findings on identity and the negotiation of possible selves
    • Ana and Bernardo: The ought-to self and the search for authenticity
    • Carmen and Dani: Sounding well-polished, sounding like a native speaker
    • Enrique and Fernando: Normative conformity and the lack of a linguistic ideal self
  • 6. Conclusions and reflections
  • References
  • Appendix A. Summary of questionnaire items
  • Appendix B. Paired interview tasks
• Part 3. Accents in the media and the workplace
• From I’m the One That I Want to Kim’s Convenience: The paradoxes and perils of implicit in-group “yellowvoicing”
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. To do or not to do: Asian accents performed by native speakers
  • 3. Margaret Cho’s “Fresh-off-the-Boat” mom accent and the fluidity of the in-group
  • 4. Appa’s trade language and political incorrectness in Kim’s Convenience
  • 5. Immigrant vernacular and a standard language ideology
  • References
• Divine intervention: Multimodal pragmatics and unconventional opposition in performed character speech in Dragon Age: Inquisition
  • 1. Introduction: Language ideologies and performed accents in fantasy role-playing games
  • 2. Theoretical framework: Language ideologies in videogames and character opposition
  • 3. Dragon Age
    • The game
  • 4. Analysing characters’ accented speech and players’ comments
    • Data collection and analysis
    • Characters’ accents and multimodal analysis
    • Cassandra
    • Leliana
    • Written Discourse Analysis
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• In the ear of the beholder: How ethnicity of raters affects the perception of a foreign accent
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methods: Evaluating the perception of a Chinese accent in a medical environment
    • Participants
    • Materials
    • Procedure
    • Analysis
  • 3. Results: A main effect of ethnicity in rating intelligence
  • 4. Discussion: Effects of stereotypes and accents on out-groups
    • Limitations and future directions
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendices A. Scripts
    • Good news about cancer (no cancer diagnosis)
    • Bad news about cancer
    • Good news about cholesterol (normal cholesterol diagnosis)
    • Bad news about cholesterol
  • Appendix B. Questionnaire
• Concluding remarks
• From sound to social meaning: Investigating the pragmatic dimensions of accents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Accent: An undertheorized notion
  • 3. Accent, identity, norms and power
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Index