scholarly journals Disambiguating language attitudes held towards sociodemographic groups and geographic areas in South East England

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Amanda Cole
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Primary Factor ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Factor Conditioning ◽  
South East England

Abstract Using a novel, digitized method, this paper investigates the language attitudes of 18- to 33-year-olds in South East England. More broadly, this paper demonstrates that disambiguating the language attitudes held towards sociodemographic groups and geographic areas is paramount to understanding the configuration of language attitudes in an area, particularly for areas with high cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. A total of 194 respondents evaluated the speech of 102 other south-eastern speakers. Results reveal an imperfect mapping between language attitudes held towards geographic areas and speakers from these areas. Although East London and Essex are the most negatively evaluated areas, speakers’ demographic and identity data is the primary factor conditioning language attitudes. Across South East England, working-class and/or ethnic minority speakers, as well as those who identify their accent in geographically marked terms, are evaluated most negatively, which is compounded if they are from East London or Essex.

scholarly journals Minor harassments: Ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries and their perceptions of the police

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mie Birk Haller ◽  
Randi Solhjell ◽  
Elsa Saarikkomäki ◽  
Torsten Kolind ◽  
Geoffrey Hunt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Police Interactions ◽  
Police Practices

As different social groups are directly and indirectly confronted with diverse forms of police practices, different sectors of the population accumulate different experiences and respond differently to the police. This study focuses on the everyday experiences of the police among ethnic minority young people in the Nordic countries. The data for the article are based on semi-structured interviews with 121 young people in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. In these interviews, many of the participants refer to experiences of “minor harassments” – police interactions characterized by low-level reciprocal intimidations and subtle provocations, exhibited in specific forms of body language, attitudes and a range of expressions to convey derogatory views. We argue that “minor harassments” can be viewed as a mode of conflictual communication which is inscribed in everyday involuntary interactions between the police and ethnic minority youth and which, over time, can develop an almost ritualized character. Consequently, minority youth are more likely to hold shared experiences that influence their perceptions of procedural justice, notions of legitimacy and the extent to which they comply with law enforcement representatives.

The Official National Language and Language Attitudes of Three Ethnic Minority Groups in China

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minglang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
National Language ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups

La oficiala lingvo kaj lingvaj sintenoj ĉe tri minoritataj grupoj en Cinio Rezulte de lingvoplanado, duono de la cent milionoj da etnominoritatanoj (EMN) en Ĉinio parolas iun version de Putonghua (PTH) kiel sian unuan aŭ duan lingvon. La nuna studo, utiligante sintenan/motivan enketaron kaj "pare maskitan" procedon, ekzamenis la taskojn fare de anoj de kazaka, ujgura kaj jia minoritatoj pri PTH kaj EMN-aj lingvoj, kaj dekdu varieblojn pri lernado kaj uzado de PTH. Analizoj de la rezultoj pere de unudirekta "ANOVA" kaj parspecimena testo t montras, ke a) integra orientigo kaj impreso de pekina-noj estas la plej bonaj manieroj antaŭdiri la instrumentan orientigon, intense-con kaj deziron de EMN pri la lernado kaj utiligo de PTH; b) la longeco de la lernperiodo de PTH sola suficas por determini kiom komforte EMN sentas en sia utiligo de PTH; c) niveloj de kontakto kun la hana minoritato para-lelas iliajn pritaksojn de PTH kaj de EMN-lingvoj; kaj c) bona impreso de pekinanoj korelaciigas kun pli altaj taksoj de PTH. La eltrovoj de la studo donas al la farantoj de lingvopolitiko kaj al esplorantoj tra la tuta mondo utilajn perspektivojn pri la rilato inter lingvaj sintenoj kaj etnaj rilatoj.

Study of Ethnic Minority's Attitudes toward Home-Language and English of Their Children in British Schools

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surinder M. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Children's Home ◽  
Minority Parents

The aim of the present study was to explore attitudes of ethnic minority parents towards their children's home-language and English in the British schools. Data were responses of fathers in 59 families originating from the Indian sub-continent who were settled in U.K. They expressed an overwhelming support for maintenance of home-language in their children's schools and their attitudes were not differentiated along instrumental and integrative dimensions of motivations. However, such differentiations persisted in their attitudes towards English. The paper also outlines a procedure for the study of language attitudes of ethnic minority parents.

ON FUTURE PEOPLE

Think ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (29) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Rupert Read
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Future People ◽  
Minority People

It is no longer socially-acceptable to exhibit prejudice against ethnic minority people on grounds of their ethnicity, women on grounds of their gender, or working-class people on grounds of their class. The last bastions of discrimination are being overcome: such as prejudice against gay and lesbian people, and against disabled people. …Or, is there one more, crucial bastion of discrimination still strongly in place?

Urban chaos and the imagined other: remaking middle-class hegemony

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Kulz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Conveyor Belt ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Minority Parents ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Class Hegemony ◽  
Potential Weight ◽  
Sixth Form

This chapter examines parental orientations to Dreamfields, as responses to the urban chaos discourse show how parents and students conceptualise their positions within this imagined Urbanderry landscape. Discourses of pathology shape the relationships developed between parents and teachers, impacting upon how students and parents are perceived and treated by the school. The urban chaos discourse powerfully reiterates the inequitable positions of the watcher and the watched, the judger and the judged. The white middle-class parent occupies an invisible, normative space, while working-class and ethnic minority parents feel the potential weight of discipline's reformative hand. Rather than students being measured as data, the continued use of types, categories and subjective judgements becomes evident as students are weeded off Dreamfields’ conveyor belt as it progresses from the compulsory lower school to sixth form college.

Research frameworks: historical representations and formations of race and class meet neoliberal governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Kulz
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Urban Child ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Historical Representations ◽  
To Come ◽  
Research Frameworks

Dreamfields describes how its disciplinarian structures liberate and transform its cohort of ‘urban children’. These children are assumed to come from unstructured, unhappy homes, where working class parenting, not ethnicity, is described as the problem. However this ‘urban child’ is inherently racialised due to the majority of students coming from ethnic minority backgrounds. The chapter shows how race and class were mutually created through historical representations rooted in the development of industrial capitalism, classificatory mechanisms and empire before showing how these historical trajectories are evident within Dreamfields’ current approach. Theoretically, the chapter discusses how processes of subjectification work to cultivate docile bodies so that ‘appropriate’ capitals can be grafted on.

scholarly journals FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN ETHNIC MINORITY AREAS OF VIETNAM: ETHNIC MINORITIES’ LANGUAGE ATTITUDES TOWARDS FOREIGN LANGUAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Khang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Language Attitude

When speaking of languages in ethnic minority areas of Vietnam, people often refer to ethnic minority languages and Vietnamese. Accordingly, domestic and international linguistics has mainly focused on these languages. However, along with socioeconomic development, ethnic minorities in Vietnam have witnessed significant changes in not only material and spiritual life but also people’s awareness. From the linguistic perspective, one of the most significant changes in ethnic minorities’ awareness is their outlook on foreign languages (this is called "language attitude" in sociolinguistics). This article is part of our investigations into "the situation of languages used in ethnic minorities of Vietnam". The study has revealed some major ethnic minorities’ language attitudes towards foreign languages, including the needs to know foreign languages, the necessary foreign languages to be known and the reasons for knowing foreign languages. Therefore, the article will, hopefully, make contributions to laying scientific foundations for policy-making on foreign language education in Vietnam, in general and in ethnic minorities, in particular.

Perceptions of T-glottalling among adolescents in South East England

English Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Roy Alderton
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Working Class ◽  
British English ◽  
Regional Dialect ◽  
Creaky Voice ◽  
South East England ◽  
The Uk

Sociolinguistic research has established that glottal realisations of the voiceless alveolar stop /t/ have become increasingly common in accents of British English. The phenomenon, known as T-glottalling, encompasses the production of word-final and word-medial /t/ using glottal articulations, including creaky voice, pre-glottalisation [ʔt] and glottal replacement [ʔ] (Straw & Patrick, 2007), so that words such as but [bʌt] and butter [bʌtə] may become [bʌʔ] and [bʌʔə] respectively. The change has been documented for some time in Scotland (Macafee, 1997) and Norfolk (Trudgill, 1999) but has since been reported in numerous locations across the UK (see Smith & Holmes–Elliott, 2018 for a recent review). Studies of regional dialect levelling (Kerswill, 2003) have argued that T-glottalling has spread from working-class London speech into neighbouring varieties of South East England and beyond as a form of geographical diffusion (Altendorf & Watt, 2004). Together with other variables showing similar sociolinguistic patterns, such as TH-fronting and L vocalisation, it has been identified as part of a set of ‘youth norms’ used by young people in many urban centres to index a trendy, youthful identity (Williams & Kerswill, 1999; Milroy, 2007; though see Watson, 2006 for an exception in Liverpool), which have elsewhere been referred to as ‘Estuary English’ (Rosewarne, 1984; Altendorf, 2017). In terms of perception, T-glottalling is described as highly salient and stigmatised, frequently attracting comments from lay speakers to the effect that it should be avoided (Wells, 1982; Bennett, 2012), to the extent that mainstream journalistic publications can identify and criticise its use by ‘educated’ speakers such as politicians (e.g. Littlejohn, 2011).

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