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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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4221020
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Year:
2021
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Language:
English
Pages:
274
ISBN 10:
902720988X
ISBN 13:
9789027209887
ISBN:
902720988X,9789027209887
Series:
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

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