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In this volume my policy is to use those labels that people choose for themselves.^5 In the case of Spanish-speaking Americans, ...

slur over the inconvenient ambiguities that are inherent in the term. Sometimes it is used to denote the variety of English pres ...

There are a few minor differences between standard usage in England and the United States, but these differences do not signific ...

to present a consistent and persuasive set of principles and perspectives on [SAE]” (Coupland 2000: 623). See also Milroy (2004a ...

Publishers. Wolfram, W. and Schilling-Estes, N. (2006) Dialects, Standards and Vernaculars. In American English: Dialects and Va ...

Language Subordination 5 The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative socia ...

You were a successful engineer in the Ukraine, sure, but why can’t you speak real English? If you just didn’t sound so corn-pone ...

In the wake of ever tighter antidiscrimination laws, language and accent have become an acceptable excuse to publicly turn away, ...

which names as its model the written language, but which is drawn primarily from the spoken language of the upper middle class.^ ...

large-scale sociopolitical in nature or more subtle, whether the approach is coercion or consent, there are two sides to this pr ...

who are criticizing her, in spite of their complaints. The things they say about her language and her social allegiances make he ...

varieties are well established, and so accepted that they are often quite openly used. Before we look at specific instances of t ...

Figure 5.1 The language subordination model Mystification is a basic tool in the application of any ideology but the fact is tha ...

It’s something I’ve not mastered – the language or the grammar – and that’s caused a problem for me. It goes back to the educati ...

Figure 5.2 Ideology as the bridge or Filter Between Language Change and Social Structures Before moving on, it will be useful to ...

rarely completely neutral. Think of the people you talked to today. Each time you begin an exchange, a complex series of calcula ...

will examine, those who classify themselves as SAE speakers) feel perfectly empowered to reject their responsibility, and to dem ...

is to negative social evaluation of the accent in question, and a rejection of the communicative burden. When we are confronted ...

Figure 5.3 Accepting or Rejecting the Communicative Burden ...

Each of us would group the accents we come across in different configurations. For the majority of Americans, French accents are ...