English with an Accent

language, ideology and discrimination in the united states

Looking for examples of language focused discrimination

… from everyday life, as in the examples below. If you come across something,  please contact me  (link) with the information and/or link, if one is available. I will not use what you send me without consulting you, and you will remain anonymous unless you specifically request not to be. I’m especially interested in incidents [...]

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Sun, November 27 2011 » Looking for information, universities » No Comments

news media: who’s driving the election bus?

One new section of EWA will be a comparison on how the news media handled two very different political events. The first is the speech the Howard Dean gave after his first primary (often referred to as ‘the Dean Scream’), and the second is Sarah Palin’s variety of American English. In the course of this [...]

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Wed, December 2 2009 » broadcast media, Elections, Looking for information, Politicians » No Comments

Rez English

Rez English features

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Wed, December 2 2009 » Looking for information, Socially marked variation » No Comments