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Pragmatics of Accents / ed. by Livia Poljak, Gaëlle Planchenault.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
- Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; 327
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accents and accentuation.
- Pragmatics.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 volume, 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.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- The pragmatics of accents
- Part 1. Ideologies of accents in national contexts
- Attitudes to accents
- Urban youth accents in France
- Encountering accented others – and selves – in provincial Japan
- ‘Could I have an appointment for a viewing?’
- Part 2. Accents in second language education teaching and learning
- The pragmatic force of second language accent in education
- A lack of phonological inherentness
- English-language attitudes and identities in Spain
- Part 3. Accents in the media and the workplace
- From I’m the One That I Want to Kim’s Convenience
- Divine intervention
- In the ear of the beholder
- Concluding remarks
- From sound to social meaning
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 1262692269
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