Chapter 15

Please note that the labels on each recording (for example, "Chicago English" or "Black English") were provided by the person who made the recording available for you to listen to. Other linguists or individuals may not agree on the description as it stands. The best example of this: you'll note that some recordings are marked "general" American, which is problematic for the same reasons the term "standard" English is problematic.

Audio Examples

Audio

Accent	Chapter	Page #	Online Example Title	URL
Hawai'ian creole	15	416	Language Varieties: Kent Sakoda speaks Hawai'i Creole English	http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/sounds/hcesound.html
Asian accent	15	421	International Dialects of English Archive: Dialects and Accents of Asia	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/asia
Standard American English	15	421	International Dialects of English Archive: General American	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/general-american
Filipino accent	15	422	International Dialects of English Archive: Dialects of The Philippines	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/philippines
Italian	15	423	International Dialects of English Archive: Dialects and Accents of Italy	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/italy
Norwegian	15	423	The Speech Accent Archive: Norwegian 1-6	http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=find&language=norwegian
Chinese accent	15	424	International Dialects of English Archive: Dialects of China	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/china
AAVE	15	431	International Dialects of English Archive: Alabama Four (African-American female, born 1928, Chambers County, AL) International Dialects of English Archive: Alabama Nine (African-American female, born 1942, Tuskeehee, AL) International Dialects of English Archive: Alabama Thirteen (African-American male, age 20, Montgomery, AL) International Dialects of English Archive: Illinois Four (African-American female, age 23, theater student) International Dialects of English Archive: Kentucky Four (African-American female age 19, Paducah, KY) International Dialects of English Archive: Louisiana One A (African-American male, born 1972, New Orleans, LA) International Dialects of English Archive: Louisiana Two (African-American female, born 1985, New Orleans, LA) International Dialects of English Archive: Louisiana Three (African-American female, born 1985, New Orleans, LA) International Dialects of English Archive: Michigan Nine (African-American male, born 1984, Detroit, MI, student) International Dialects of English Archive: Mississippi Three (African-American male, sixties, Grenada, MS) International Dialects of English Archive: North Carolina Five (African-American male, 30s, Winston-Salem, NC) International Dialects of English Archive: South Carolina Four (African-American female, born 1986, Florence, SC) International Dialects of English Archive: Texas Seventeen (African-American male, raised in Texas)	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/alabama-4 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/alabama-9 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/alabama-13 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/illinois-4 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/kentucky-4 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/Louisiana-1a http://www.dialectsarchive.com/louisiana-2 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/louisiana-3 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/michigan-9 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/mississippi-3 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/north-carolina-5 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/south-carolina-4 http://www.dialectsarchive.com/texas-17
Irish accent	15	436	International Dialects of English Archive: Dialects and Accents of Ireland	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/ireland
English accent	15	436	International Dialects of English Archive: Dialects and Accents of England	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/england
Vietnemese accent	15	440	International Dialects of English Archive: Dialects of Vietnam	http://www.dialectsarchive.com/vietnam

Discussion question

1. Listen to the samples of the accents mentioned in Chapter 15 and revisit the discussion of how university students react to teaching assistants with L2 accents. Have you ever heard fellow students complaining about a teaching assistant with any of these accents? Others? Why do you think some accents get complained about more than others?

Videos

“Rush Limbaugh Mocks Chinese President”
ABC News, 1/20/2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/rush-limbaugh-mocks-chinese-president-hu-jintao-12721187

This video clip provides material to discuss the mocking of Asian languages (specifically Chinese).

Discussion question

1. Compare and contrast this clip to Rosie O’Donnell’s use of fake Chinese on The View discussed in Chapter 15. What do the similarities and differences indicate about the language ideologies behind the fake Chinese both media personalities used?

Further Resources

Chun, E. (2004) Ideologies of Legitimate Mockery: Margaret Cho’s Revoicings of Mock Asian. Pragmatics 14(2–3): 263–290.

Huebner, T. and Uyechi, L. (2004) Asian American Voices: Languages in the Asian American Community. In E. Finegan and J. Rickford (Eds.) Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sue, D.W., Bucceri, J., Lin, A.I. Nadal, K. and Torino, G. (2007) Racial Microaggressions and the Asian American Experience. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 13(1): 72–81.

Images

A poster mocking [r] and [l] phoneme substitution
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uq2KcmM6MLM/TH5IMJn69RI/AAAAAAAAB8A/r-AiaCsTRKM/s1600/633507747147468646-raff-out-roud.jpg

Meme image using a written representation of a mock Asian accent
http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/memes-jay-z-have-problems.jpg

A comic book superhero who speaks with a mock Asian accent
http://geek.pikimal.com/files/2010/10/42.png

Links

Power of Prose: Asian Americans
Do You Speak American?
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/powerprose/asian/

“Rush Limbaugh mocks Hu Jintao with racist “ching-chong ching-chong” routine, stereotyped accent”
The Nikkei View: The Asian American Blog
http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2011/01/20/rush-limbaugh-mocks-hu-jintao-with-racist-ching-chong-ching-chong-routine-stereotyped-accent/

“Tall Tale?: Shaq says Yao comments were made in jest”
SportsIllustrated.com
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2003/01/10/shaq_yao_ap/

RSS & Blogs

Angry Asian Man: http://blog.angryasianman.com/
The Nikkei View: http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/