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Chakraborty, Rahul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper discusses the interrelations among accent-based biases, social identity and ethnocentrism. Construction of social identity creates a set of ethnocentric values within a person, which indirectly or directly plays a pivotal role in generating accent related biases. Starting with Tajfel's (1959) social identity theory and then the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Social Bias, Ethnocentrism, Speech Language Pathology
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Khojastehrad, Shadi; Sattarova, Madina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
With the rapid development of communication and transportation technology, globalization has brought people of diverse cultures, ethnicities, geographies, and religions together. English is now the primary lingua franca, which is used to communicate with speakers of different native languages throughout the world. However, today the world is faced…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries