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Investigating Attitudes towards an Emerging Standard of English: Evaluations of Newscasters' Accents in Trinidad
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Deuber, Dagmar; Leung, Glenda-Alicia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper addresses the issue of the emergence of new standards of English in the postcolonial world by means of a language attitude study conducted in the Caribbean island of Trinidad that involved rating the accents of newscasters. Accents represented in the clips played to respondents comprised various local as well as non-local ones. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language Variation, Foreign Countries