scholarly journals "Say What You Want To Say!": Teaching Literacy Autoethnography to Resist Linguistic Prejudice

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Amanda Sladek
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Prejudice

scholarly journals Proverbs and Patriarchy: Analysis of Linguistic Prejudice and Representation of Women in Traditional Akan Communities of Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Gyan ◽  
Eunice Abbey ◽  
Michael Baffoe
Keyword(s):  
Oral Traditions ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Phenomenological Interpretation ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context ◽  
Linguistic Prejudice ◽  
The Way

Discourses govern the phenomenological interpretation of our everyday existence and influence both our way of thinking and our relationship with one another in the world. Undoubtedly, popular sayings and proverbs mediate the way of being in African context. This paper examines the role of proverbs and wise sayings in the African culture. This paper attempts to analyze the representation of women in sampled Akan proverbs and the ways in which these proverbs institutionalize the position, identity, and roles of women in traditional Akan communities of Ghana. This paper suggests that oral traditions are used in the systematic perpetuation of patriarchal culture, gender inequities, and inequality. Therefore, it recommends the revolutionalization of oral traditions to assist in the deinstitutionalization of the prevailing patriarchal discourses and culture in traditional Akan communities of Ghana.

scholarly journals Diversidade linguística na universidade pública: um estudo desvelador de estratégias de dominação para a área de política linguística

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Marcus Vinícius Freitas Mussi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
University Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Condition ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Linguistic Prejudice

Previous research on Language Policy has been a growing target of discussion in the academic environment. In this context, I adopt belief and management dimensions from Spolsky model (2004; 2009, 2012) and the notion of policy devices from Shohamy´s (2006) perspective in order to analyse university students and professor´s discourse about linguistic diversity. The instruments used for data collection were exploratory study and participant observation for the researcher, interview with professors and survey with students. It is predominantly a qualitative research, whose main aim was to identify beliefs about linguistic diversity and possible discursive strategies of domination. The discourses revealed divisions about linguistic diversity and accent, although almost unanimously the participants answered that they have already suffered linguistic prejudice. However, the biggest contribution of this work was about the identification of discursive strategies of linguistic domination: the sarcasm, linguistic association to social condition of the region, and repetition.

scholarly journals Linguistic prejudice and discrimination in Brazilian Portuguese and beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-62
Author(s):  
Paul O'Neill ◽  
Gladis Massini-Cagliari
Keyword(s):  
Error Correction ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
International Laws ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
Linguistic Prejudice

In this article we make a distinction between the prejudice and discrimination towards (a) different languages and their speakers and (b) different non-standard varieties of the same language and their speakers, and argue that while the discrimination and prejudice towards (a) have been denounced by international institutions and both national and international laws are in place to guarantee the rights of speakers of different languages, the same protection has not been afforded to speakers of non-standard varieties of a language. We examine a specific case of this type of linguistic prejudice in Brazil. We discuss the effectiveness of efforts of linguists to combat linguistic prejudice based on the principle of error correction (Labov 1982) and, drawing on work by Cameron (2012) and Bourdieu (1986), suggest that linguistic prejudice cannot be disentangled from other types of prejudice and that linguists need to have a much deeper understanding of and engagement with the values attached to linguistic forms. We conclude with a number of suggestions and recommendations in order to effectively combat linguistic prejudice.

scholarly journals Quantitative research, Linguistic Discrimination and the graduation in Letters

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Joane Marieli Pereira Caetano ◽  
Sonia Maria da Fonseca Souza ◽  
Carlos Henrique Medeiros de Souza ◽  
Eliana Crispim França Luquetti ◽  
Dr. Fabrício Moraes de Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Linguistic Prejudice

This article presents the perceptions of undergraduate students about Linguistic Discrimination (LD). The main objective of this study is to analyze of quantitative research view of literary scholars confronted with situations related to the mythology of linguistic prejudice, that is, to the myths that, according to Bagno (1999), are constructors of discriminatory behaviors before certain linguistic varieties.

scholarly journals Sociolinguistic correlates of negative evaluation: Variable concord in Rio de Janeiro

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Marta Pereira Scherre ◽  
Anthony Julius Naro
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Trend Study ◽  
Statistical Effect ◽  
Social Distribution ◽  
Linguistic Prejudice

AbstractVariable agreement in Brazilian Portuguese is subject to social stigma. It was brought to the general public's attention in 2011 in a heated nationwide sociolinguistic debate triggered by TV Globo, the principal network. In order to isolate objective factors underlying this debate, we examine the variableeducationin a trend study of Rio de Janeiro speech. Relying on logistic modelrelative weightsand their correspondingranges, we usepolarizationto designate the magnitude of these ranges. Polarization of the education variable in 1980 was moderate, whereas in 2000, polarization becomes extreme in an increasingly uneven social distribution of standard marked forms. The increased effect of education is also reflected in a comparison with the statistical effect of mass media: in 1980, media contact had a stronger effect than education did, whereas in 2000, education exhibits a stronger effect. The results reveal objective correlates to speakers' subjective reactions, suggesting that public discussion of linguistic prejudice would be useful to the community, which can profit from results of sociolinguistic research in a humanistic and emancipatory way, as foreseen by Sankoff (1988a).

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