Effects of phonological speech foreignness upon three dimensions of attitude of selected American listeners

Mulac, Anthony; Hanley, T. D.; Prigge, Diane Y.

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“…Although she did not make a distinction between reactions based on attitude construct, her recognition of a basic reaction based solely on foreignness is consistent with the implicit pro-US-accent bias found in the present study's lAT. Second, this basic distinction supports the language attitudes research that asserts that foreign accents are generally dispreferred (Bresnahan et al, 2002;Gudykunst & Ting-Toomey, 1990;Lippi-Green, 1994;Mulac et al, 1974). The present study's results clarify that the general downgrading of foreignaccented speech occurs immediately upon identifying the speech as non-native at approximately one and a quarter seconds after exposure.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Europeans (Mulac et al, 1974). In general, these studies confirm that 'nonstandard' accents are dispreferred (e.g., Lambert, 1967;Rubin & Smith, 1990), and that associations made based on foreign accent generally lead to the disfavoring ofthe speaker (Brennan & Brennan, 1981a;Brennan & Brennan, 1981b;Giles, 1971;Triandis, Loh & Levin, 1966), even to the point of disliking the speaker and discounting the speaker's message (Ryan, 1982).…”

Section: The Literature On Language Attitudes Toward Foreign-accentedmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…Language attitudes-reactions to another person's speech-influence a listener's attitudes toward the speaker and the speaker's message Mulac, Hanley & Prigge, 1974;Ryan, 1983). Foreign accent, in particular, has been shown potentially to have a powerful, negative effect on listener judgments and perceptions of speakers, even leading to prejudicial behaviors with adverse legal, social, educational, and economic consequences for foreign-accented speakers (Lippi-Green, 1994;Matsuda, 1991).…”

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2012

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“…Studies show that foreignaccentedness arouses spontaneous reactions in native listeners, often, though not always, evoking negative attitudes, judgments and biases (e.g. Mulac et al, 1974;Cargile, 1997;Frumkin, 2007). A non-native accent is a clear signal of out-group identity and a stimulus to evaluate the speaker less favourably (than a member of one's own group).…”

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Is there an interlanguage speech credibility benefit?

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Petráž

2016

Topics in Linguistics

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Some (though not all) previous studies have documented the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB), i.e. the greater intelligibility of non-native (relative to native) speech to non-native listeners as compared to native listeners. Moreover, some studies (again not all) found that native listeners consider foreign-accented statements as less truthful than native-sounding ones. We join these two lines of research, asking whether foreign-accented statements sound more credible to non-native than to native listeners and whether difficult-to-process (less comprehensible) utterances are less credible. In two experiments we measure the intelligibility, comprehensibility and credibility of native and foreign-accented statements for native listeners and non-native listeners matched or mismatched in L1 with non-native talkers. We find an ISIB in both matched and mismatched non-native listeners, and an analogous matched comprehensibility benefit. However, we obtain no evidence of an interlanguage speech credibility benefit. Instead, both matched and mismatched non-native listeners tend to trust native statements more (i.e. statements produced by their target-language models). For native listeners, we do not confirm the tendency to mistrust non-native statements, but we do find a moderate correlation between the comprehensibility and credibility of foreign-accented utterances, giving limited support to the hypothesis that decreased perceptual fluency leads to decreased credibility.

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“…These three dimensions can be further broken down into evaluations of the following: -Status: ambition, confidence, competence, education, intelligence, success, and social class; -Solidarity: attractiveness, benevolence, the speaker's similarity to the listener, and trustworthiness; -Dynamism: the speaker's level of activity, enthusiasm, liveliness and talkativeness (e.g. Giles & Billings, 2004;Mulac, Hanley & Prigge, 1974;Zahn & Hopper, 1985).…”

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How non-native English-speaking staff are evaluated in linguistically diverse organizations: A sociolinguistic perspective

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Johansson

2014

J Int Bus Stud

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The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of evaluations of non-native speaking staff's spoken English in international business settings. We adopt a sociolinguistic perspective on power and inequalities in linguistically diverse organizations in an Anglophone environment. The interpretive qualitative study draws on 54 interviews with non-native English speaking staff in 19 UK business schools. We analyze, along the dimensions of status, solidarity and dynamism, the ways in which nonnative speakers, on the basis of their spoken English, are evaluated by themselves and by listeners.We show how such evaluations refer to issues beyond the speaker's linguistic fluency, and have consequences for her or his actions. The study contributes to the literature on language and power in international business through offering fine-grained insights into and elucidating how the interconnected evaluative processes impact the formation and perpetuation of organizational power relations and inequalities. It also puts forward implications for managing the officially monolingual, yet linguistically diverse organizations.

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Effects of phonological speech foreignness upon three dimensions of attitude of selected American listeners

Cited by 51 publications

References 15 publications

Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Foreign Accented Speech

Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Foreign Accented Speech

Is there an interlanguage speech credibility benefit?

How non-native English-speaking staff are evaluated in linguistically diverse organizations: A sociolinguistic perspective

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