Accentism: English LX users of migrant background in Australia

Dryden, Stephanie; Dovchin, Sender

doi:10.1080/01434632.2021.1980573

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“…Even though Brazil is a multilingual country, educational systems reinforce an "unquestionable truth" (e.g., the monolingual Brazil with a prestigious Portuguese) in its practices and policies from a very early age, thus excluding various populations that compose the country. A similar point was also described by Dryden and Dovchin (2021) in their work on accentism in Australia, as they explain educational settings and media broadcasting end up contributing to structural forms of racism via the insistent propagation of dominant English-speaking forms as the norm. For these reasons, to think of a just internationalisation involves tackling the fact that the university, with its practices and curriculum, is a place that reinforces the coloniality of knowledge, here specifically manifesting itself through a monoculture of languages.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…It is worth pointing out that language has not been widely discussed as an object of racialization when it comes to affirmative policies in universities. Likewise, we cannot forget that language is intertwined with other identity markers, such as gender, ethnicity, social class (DRYDEN;DOVCHIN, 2021). What we see above in the situation depicted by Eduardo is exactly the way his body and language are racialised, especially when he quotes his friends by saying it's wrong, Eduardo, you are Japanese.…”

Section: Befriending Brazilians Around the Universitymentioning

confidence: 95%

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Tensions Among Portugueses in Metacommentaries From East Asian International Students in Brazil

Frazatto

Bizon

2022

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The aims of this paper are to analyse how East Asian international students narrate tensions in Portuguese language, or Portugueses, through metacommentary, and to foster reflections on the counter-hegemonic potential that language learning comprises, particularly when thinking of the internationalisation agenda implemented by a Brazilian public university. To pursue that, we depart from audio-recorded semi-structured interviews, later manually transcribed, with a Korean and a Japanese undergraduate student during their sojourn. We observed that these tensions in Portugueses arose as students’ communicative repertoires were put to the test, either by them or their interlocutors, in different spaces. Our discussion foregrounds how students, when engaging in various social practices on campus and off-campus, manoeuvre sociolinguistic scales in comments made by themselves or by their interlocutors about ways of speaking Portuguese. We considered that, overall, students resort to ecological factors when doing scales, whilst indexing dominant language ideologies. Moreover, it was also possible to conceive that metacommentary from their interlocutors, particularly from Brazilians, impact (negatively) on students’ perception about their language learning and linguistic practices. To tackle these tensions, we advocate for an internationalisation agenda that envisages language education not only to international students, but also to home students and staff in order to promote different degrees of language and social justice awareness.

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Section: Befriending Brazilians Around the Universitymentioning

confidence: 95%

Tensions Among Portugueses in Metacommentaries From East Asian International Students in Brazil

Frazatto

Bizon

2022

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“…Education, media, and law are perceived to be the three powerful leaders of standard language ideology (Lippi‐Green, 2012), because these contexts represent powerful arenas where standard language is prestigious and proper form is promoted and requested from everyone who speaks English. In our published findings, Eastern and Southeastern European and Asian female students reported everyday lived experiences of translingual discrimination, as well as other sorts of language‐based discrimination—linguistic racism (De Costa, 2020; Tankosić & Dovchin, 2023), linguistic subordination (Tankosić et al., 2021), perpetual foreigner stereotyping (Tankosić, 2020), and accentism (Dryden & Dovchin, 2021; Roessel et al., 2020). Women in these studies were chronically bullied for their accents, ascribed as “ethnic” by the local dominant society (cf.…”

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“Women are capable too!” Exploring intersectionality and challenging CaLD gender stereotypes at Australian universities

Tankosić,

Dovchin

2024

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With a focus on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) women, this article will discuss the underlying gender inequalities and stereotypes these women experience in Australian tertiary institutions through reflections of translingual discrimination. Translingual discrimination refers to the ideologies and practices that produce unequal linguistic power relationships between CaLD communities and dominant communities of the host society, focusing on the central role that language plays in the enduring relevance of discrimination disparity. Because of CaLD women's translingual identities, these groups experience such aspects of translingual discrimination as accentism, naming practices, linguistic subordination, deskilling, and stereotyping, which eventually affect their well‐being and economic security. CaLD women need a linguistically and culturally “safe space” where they will be supported and appreciated based on their capabilities and skills and not subjected to objectification, femininity evaluations, and derogatory actions. Opportunities for women should persist because, unfortunately, in men‐dominated fields, these opportunities are still necessary to support and include women.

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“…Dito de outro modo, ainda que as comunidades indígenas, surdas e de imigrantes utilizem cerca de 200 línguas diferentes no Brasil e mesmo que haja muito mais línguas que países no mundo, curiosamente o monolinguismo é naturalizado como o "padrão" das interações, como "régua" com a qual se medem cenários sociolinguisticamente complexos, no Brasil e além dele (ver Dovchin, Pennycook & Sultana, 2018;Dryden & Dovchin, 2021;Gramling, 2016;Lee, 2017;. Atenta às conotações políticas dessa invisibilidade, Cavalcanti explica ainda que os contextos bilíngues de minorias (como os indígenas, de imigrantes, de comunidades de fronteira e surdos) convivem paralelamente com línguas ou variedades "estigmatizadas".…”

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Pensando com Marilda Cavalcanti: Reinvenção da linguística aplicada, grupos minoritarizados e complexidade sociolinguística

Silva

Bizon

2022

DELTA

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RESUMO Este texto apresenta o número especial de DELTA “Pensando com Marilda Cavalcanti: Reinvenção da linguística aplicada, grupos minoritarizados e complexidade sociolinguística”. Em particular, o texto revisita a produção acadêmica e política de Marilda Cavalcanti, docente e pesquisadora que, ao longo de sua carreira no Departamento de Linguística Aplicada da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, colaborativamente participou da produção de conceitos (e.g., educação linguística ampliada, Cavalcanti, 2013), metáforas (e.g., “línguas como caleidoscópios de recursos”, César & Cavalcanti, 2007; Cavalcanti & Maher, 2018), campos de pesquisa (e.g., educação indígena, práticas de linguagem em cenários sociolinguisticamente complexos) e instituições (e.g., a Associação de Linguística Aplicada do Brasil (ALAB), o Departamento de Linguística Aplicada do Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL) da Unicamp), os quais, historicamente, ajudaram a firmar o campo aplicado como área vibrante e promissora de produção de conhecimento sobre a linguagem em sociedade. Além desse panorama histórico, o texto detalha as contribuições ao número especial: dezesseis artigos de pesquisa que não apenas homenageiam o trabalho de Marilda Cavalcanti, mas também ajudam a ampliar o seu legado.

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Accentism: English LX users of migrant background in Australia

Cited by 19 publications

References 33 publications

Tensions Among Portugueses in Metacommentaries From East Asian International Students in Brazil

Tensions Among Portugueses in Metacommentaries From East Asian International Students in Brazil

“Women are capable too!” Exploring intersectionality and challenging CaLD gender stereotypes at Australian universities

Pensando com Marilda Cavalcanti: Reinvenção da linguística aplicada, grupos minoritarizados e complexidade sociolinguística

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