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This matched-guise study provides data on attitudes toward Mandarin Chinese-accented English by eliciting both Angloand Asian Americans'reactions to a male speaker. Study 1 discovered that in the context ofan employment interview, a speaker of Chinese-accented English was treated no differently than a standard American-accented English counterpart was and thatAsian American listeners were less evaluatively generous when it came to estimations of the speaker's attractiveness than their Anglo-American counterparts were. Study 2 explored the results further and found that the same Chinese-accented speaker was deemed less attractive than the standard American-accented speaker in the context of a college classroom. Tbgether, these studies demonstrate a need to understand better the role played by context in shaping attitudes toward varieties of language.

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This "matched-guise" study provides data regarding attitudes toward (Mandarin) Chinese speakers by eliciting non-Asian Americans' reactions to Chinese speaker using 2 varieties of English (standard American and Mandarin Chineseaccented) and introduced in the context of an employment interview with either an Anglo-American or ethnic Chinese name. Results indicate that speakers in all conditions were rated equally suitable for 3 types of employment. Despite the fact that language attitudes research has consistently demonstrated that individuals with nonstandard accents are judged to be less suitable for highstatus jobs and more suitable for low-status jobs, the present results contradict this generalization.