Standard Language
Accent discrimination
What is language-trait focused discrimination?
Mike Mena describes this as a mono-lingual white person sprinkling common Spanish words or phrases into speech—no problemo.
What is mock Spanish?
The most common dialect and accent of Disney princesses
What is Standard American English?
An example of primary metaphor, according to George Lakoff.
What is “time = money”
A regional or social variety of a language, distinguished by unique grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, which remains mutually intelligible with other forms of the same language.
What is dialect?
Any dialect that deviates from the so-called high standard form of the language.
What is a nonstandard dialect?
Users of this dialect of American English are often called hillbilly’s.
What is Appalachian English?
the Bechdel test
What is it called when a work features at least two female characters who have a conversation about something other than a man.
Analyzing images to understand the underlying message.
What is visual rhetoric?
A person’s accent that is related to the dominant language—English.
What is an L1 accent?
Standard Language Ideology
What is a bias towards unaccented, idealized, and homogenized spoken language that is imposed and maintained by dominant institutions?
Combining two languages or dialects with an utterance.
What is code switching?
Two examples of stereotyped accents that Disney uses for anthropomorphized animals.
What are crows in “Jungle Book” representing AAVE speakers; what are small dogs as petty criminals with Spanish accents?
When someone uses the wrong pronoun or word to refer to someone, but it does not reflect their gender idendity.
What is misgendering?
Systematic phonological variation or pronunciation
What is accent?
These dialects offer the user more complex structures and meaning—they are rule-bound and systematic.
Nonstandard dialect or an example of a nonstandard dialect.
When someone is denied basic human rights like housing, employment, or medical care because of their stigmatized accent.
What is linguistic profiling?
The most common accent Disney uses for villains
What is a British accent?
When someone tells a black or brown person that they are ”articulate.”
What is a microaggression?
A set of rules that dictate how language should be used according to grammar books and really uptight language “experts.” In this perspective, there is good and bad English.
What is prescriptive grammar?
The educational system, the news media, the entertainment industry, and corporate America/the workplace.
What are the four components of Standard Language Ideology?
This dialect of American English pronounces ‘ask’ as ’aks’
What is AAVE?
Problematic themes and messages in Disney full-length features that are potentially destructive to children’s formation of categories and prototypes.
What leads to unconscious bias? The stereotypes can become prototypes for children.
When someone tells a black or brown person that they are “articulate.”
What is a microaggression?
All human languages are equal in terms of linguistic potential.
What is a linguistic fact?