english language
TITLE: Youse wanna work with me?
AUTHOR: Fiona Smith
SOURCE Australian financial review
DOP: 14 august 2007
The article talks about our accents, and how we are perceived by others. The characteristics of our speech send out lots of signs to the listener on who we are, building and creating our identity on just how we speak. The articulation of vowel sounds, usage of High rising terminals, accents, articulation of words, or particular usage of non-standard variants can aid the other to determine your education and social status, even if you are completely the opposite. You might by highly educated, yet sound like an ignorant teenager and the latter is what is perceived of you since the way you speak is your first impression to the listener.
Our manner of speech portrays to others our identity as described in the text and in this case our accents can be associated with our levels of education and socioeconomic status, which in the business industry is crucial. Variations in language therefore cause many social attitudes to arise and be utilised to discriminate others just on the way we speak which is what is occurring in the business world at the moment. Firms tend to hire people who speak in the same expected manner since ‘it is all about hiring ‘people like us’’, which further outlines one of the functions of language to separate ‘us’ from ‘them’
COURSE RELEVANCE:
#accents
#social attitudes to accents
#Identity (physical)
#constructing identity
#attitudes to language variation
#standard vs. Non standard
#group membership and identity
They say it is about language, but really, it is about race The Australian accent may charm Americans, who think it is cute, but it can derail business negotiations
AUTHOR: Fiona Smith
SOURCE Australian financial review
DOP: 14 august 2007
The article talks about our accents, and how we are perceived by others. The characteristics of our speech send out lots of signs to the listener on who we are, building and creating our identity on just how we speak. The articulation of vowel sounds, usage of High rising terminals, accents, articulation of words, or particular usage of non-standard variants can aid the other to determine your education and social status, even if you are completely the opposite. You might by highly educated, yet sound like an ignorant teenager and the latter is what is perceived of you since the way you speak is your first impression to the listener.
Our manner of speech portrays to others our identity as described in the text and in this case our accents can be associated with our levels of education and socioeconomic status, which in the business industry is crucial. Variations in language therefore cause many social attitudes to arise and be utilised to discriminate others just on the way we speak which is what is occurring in the business world at the moment. Firms tend to hire people who speak in the same expected manner since ‘it is all about hiring ‘people like us’’, which further outlines one of the functions of language to separate ‘us’ from ‘them’
COURSE RELEVANCE:
#accents
#social attitudes to accents
#Identity (physical)
#constructing identity
#attitudes to language variation
#standard vs. Non standard
#group membership and identity
They say it is about language, but really, it is about race The Australian accent may charm Americans, who think it is cute, but it can derail business negotiations