LANGUAGE PREJUDICE: Are you being judged by the way you speak?

Judge by the way you talk? Understand how prejudice against people's languages ​​is formed

This video was created by Wendy Wei undergraduate of Creole and Caribbean Identity in my class (Spring of 2016).

Dr. John Baugh is studying how to judge people based on so-called language analysis, or what they say. Are you surprised to say that African-Americans and Chicano English are different from mainstream English users on the phone? Do you think it is possible to judge people's ethnic and socio-economic status based solely on people's way of speaking? "Black and white people often think that African-Americans speak English terribly or lazily, indeed, the English of the black is deeply rooted and the grammar is Scotish, Irish, other English and It is consistent. "Grammar is as consistent as he is referring. . . Other English "

Lingual prejudice is a strong but ignored form of cultural racial discrimination related to discrimination against people who do not speak the national official language. Lingual prejudice was derived from human political linguistics with the premise that languages, dialects and accents are structures that classify races with respect to skin color, nationality, race and family relationship (Urciuoli, 1996 ; Lippi-Green, 1997). . As with other observable differences, differences in languages ​​between outsiders can be seen by insiders of the same kind as a threat to our 'lifestyle'

When people are exposed to prejudice of the words, they are judged to be communicative. Understanding of their language form is considered insufficient and contaminated: it is said that the rules are broken, the borders are crossed, the words mix, and it is difficult to understand the accent "(Urciuoli , 1996, p. 2). People whose "languages' value" or countries with less appreciated languages, those whose primary languages ​​are not English are easily represented in moral languages ​​by experienced English users. '' And its accent 'heavy' are in contrast to '' good '' English. Good English is a clearly defined object (Urciuoli, 1996, p. 2).

We live in a world where people judge by how they see them, how to talk, or by connecting groups. People who speak accent deeply may be judged to be "different". Language is a good thing. This is what we use to communicate with others. Each country has a different kind of language and different accent. Communication is used throughout the world. Everyone is always communicating. But communication is more than just speaking and listening.