English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States
By E. Laurence. 2014
The inherent versatility exhibited in the various writing genres of talented linguist, Rosina Lippi-Green, is as remarkable as her seemingly random interest in quilting. Her ability to make connections with many things, in addition to fabric, is neither coincidental nor haphazard. It is far from surprising, therefore, that this independent scholar claiming “mixed European ancestry” utilizes three authorial guises: two for penning historical fiction and a third for academic writing endeavors, the most recent being English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States.Extensive documentation and factual data are but two persuasive means of support she utilizes to focus on and convince readers that the power of language upon social structures, especially in the discrimination and subordination of others, remains more strongly embedded than most people realize.
Subfields: Linguistics, Social Sciences & Humanities
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- Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, neutral): “…point for reorienting work analyzing “bias” in NLP systems around this question, we 3Language ideologies encompass much more than this; see, e.g., Lippi-Green (2012), Alim et al. (2016), Rosa and Flores (2017), Rosa and Burdick (2017), and Charity Hudley (2017). provide the following concrete…”
- Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users (2015, background): “According to Lippi-Green (1997), evaluations of language competence may be more than a function of shared negative attitudes towards the ethnicity of the accented speaker rather than actual intelligibility.”