Acculturating Intergroup Vitalities, Accommodation and Contact

Giles, Howard; Bonilla, Douglas; Speer, Rebecca B.

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“…For native English-speaking participants, hearing a person speaking with a Spanish accent might induce feelings of linguistic hierarchy wherein they are more attuned to mispronunciations, grammatical errors, or problems with comprehension and clarity. When considering ethnolinguistic vitality, the status of the linguistic group dictates expectations in interactions, and a member of the dominant group (i.e., a native English speaker) would expect members of other linguistic groups to converge to their communication style, not the other way around (Giles et al, 2012). Future research might explore the dynamic interplay between accent, social attributions of accent, perceived power status, vitality, and language accommodation from the perspectives of both the adjusting individuals and host nationals.…”

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“…In such situations, individuals tend to spontaneously or unconsciously generate biased judgments or attributions that are consistent with the negative social perception. This is especially true when intergroup differentiations are salient between high- and low-status groups, or between groups with varied levels of ethnolinguistic vitality (Giles, Bonilla, & Speer, 2012).…”

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“…Past research has demonstrated that adapting to and learning a new language is a convergent behavior, one that is often expected of immigrants and sojourners as part of the acculturation process (Giles et al, 2012; McKay-Semmler & Kim, 2014). More precisely, the positive relationship between English proficiency and psychological health (McKay-Semmler & Kim, 2014) suggests the accommodative, convergent behavior of learning a host language is seen as necessary for acculturative success.…”

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Intergroup Anxiety and Willingness to Accommodate: Exploring the Effects of Accent Stereotyping and Social Attraction

Montgomery

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2017

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Guided by communication accommodation theory, the current study examined the effects of accent stereotyping on native English speakers' (N = 243) perceptions of and willingness to communicate with the nonnative speaker and willingness to accommodate to Hispanic/Latino Americans in general. Accent stereotyping was manipulated through two experimental conditions: presence or absence of an explicit and negative stereotype in a written paragraph. After reading the paragraph, participants listened to a recording of an English speaker with a moderate, native-Spanish accent. Using PROCESS, results revealed participants in the stereotype condition rated the speaker as less socially attractive than the control condition, indicating accent stereotyping negatively affected perceptions of social attractiveness of the moderately accented speaker. Additionally, results indicated significant indirect effects of negative accent stereotyping on willingness to communicate with the speaker and willingness to accommodate to Hispanic/ Latino out-group members sequentially through perceived social attractiveness and communication anxiety.

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Intergroup Anxiety and Willingness to Accommodate: Exploring the Effects of Accent Stereotyping and Social Attraction

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Zhang

2017

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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“…Communicative behaviors and related attitudes are of particular importance for our own approach, which builds on the predictive power of ‘egocentric’ beliefs about ethnolinguistic vitality, but also measures language attitudes and language use [ 34 – 36 ]. Our approach has also been inspired by the proposed link between ELV and acculturation theory, refining the understanding of the former as the group’s ability to maintain language practices and ethnic identity while resisting assimilation, or, alternatively, fostering assimilation in cases of low ELV [ 37 ]. This corresponds well to a recent definition of ELV proposed by Ehala [ 38 ] as “a group’s ability to maintain and protect its existence in time as a collective entity”.…”

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From discouragement to self-empowerment. Insights from an ethnolinguistic vitality survey among the Kashubs in Poland

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The paper relates the results of an ethnolinguistic vitality (ELV) survey among the Kashubs in Poland. The results reveal two interrelated layers of ELV: (1) an individual ELV reflected in language use and shaped by personal experience, emotions, and language proficiency; (2) a more collective ELV associated with the perception of the group's language strength, its status and utility. The most surprising predictor of linguistic praxis in our study, in addition to language skills, was the positive impact of experienced discouragement on language use. This remained significant when controlling for proficiency. We argue that the correlation between experiencing discouragement and increased language use is best explained by the self-empowerment of speakers who, earlier in their lives, met with negative attitudes toward their heritage language. Rather than succumbing to this discouragement and assimilating to the dominant language, their response was to develop an emotional link to Kashubian and increase their use of this minority language as a conscious act of selfdetermination and engagement.

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“…The first of these factors, societal intergroup context variables, comprises ethnolinguistic vitality and state language policies, which work together to shape communication practices in multilingual contexts (Bourhis, Sioufi, & Sachdev, 2012;Giles, Bonilla, & Speer, 2012). Ethnolinguistic vitality, measured by economic status, geographic concentration, and political representation, reflects the likelihood for members of a particular group either to learn and maintain their language or accommodate to another (Reid & Giles, 2010).…”

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