The everyday language of white racism

By JANE H. Hill. 2008

Subfields: Linguistics, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “…groups’ desire to “control both material and symbolic resources”—i.e., “the right to decide what words will mean and to control those meanings”—as was the case in some white speakers’ insistence on using offensive place names against the objections of Indigenous speakers (Hill, 2008, Chapter 3).”
How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “…in contexts that community members are aware of and understand’’ (Rahman, 2012, p. 146; see also Bauman and Briggs, 1990; Ochs, 1992; Coupland, 2001, 2007; Hill, 2008).8 For example, in ‘‘Intracultural Tact versus Intercultural Tact’’ Janney and Arndt (1992) suggest that ‘‘growing up to become a…”
Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective (2017, unknown): “This is found not only in sociolinguistic accounts of the features that compose categories such as ‘African American English’ (Green 2002) or ‘Chicano English’ (Fought 2003), but also popular stereotypes and modes of linguistic appropriation such as ‘Mock Spanish’ (Hill 2008), ‘Mock Asian’ (Chun 200”
Should ChatGPT be Biased? Challenges and Risks of Bias in Large Language Models (2023, background): “Separating useful patterns from these biases can be challenging, as they are often deeply ingrained in the way people express themselves and the structures of language itself [78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83].”
The Linguistic Ideologies of Deep Abusive Language Classification (2018, background): “(Hill, 2008) We argue that it will be essential for NLP researchers to recognize how our tools and techniques may, in part, be material embodiments of these ideologies, but also how one might partially escape those ideologies without abandoning the use of tools and techniques entirely.”
Why is it not Just a Joke? Analysis of Internet Memes Associated with Racism and Hidden Ideology of Colorblindness (2016, background): “Hill (2008) points out the danger of the linguistic ideology “personalism, which holds that the meanings of utterances are determined by the intentions of speakers” (p. 64).”
Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education (2015, unknown): “Inoue (2006) develops her theorization of the “listening subject” to analyze the ideological construction of “Japanese women’s language.”