Standard Language
Accent discrimination
What is language-trait focused discrimination?
or
What is discrimination related to a person's dialect, specifically pronunciation?
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?
Eliminating all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public institutions in Texas
What is Senate Bill 17?
Typically, when a marginalized person or group of people are excluded/ignored/dismissed from issues that affect them; for example, Native Americans have experienced this as a result of colonization.
What is erasure?
The ability to produce and interpret utterances appropriate to their context of use.
What is ”communicative competence?”
Anything that deviates from the so-called “standard.”
What is a nonstandard dialect?
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.
A man who speaks in a higher pitch with rising intonation patterns.
What is a stereotype about sounding gay?
An example of this is when someone tells a black or brown person that they are “articulate.”
What is a microaggression?
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 within 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 identity.
What is misgendering?
Hate Speech
What is speech, writing, or nonverbal communication that attaches, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability?
Hate speech changes the brains of those hated for the worse, creating toxic stress, fear and distrust — all physical, all in one’s neural circuitry active every day.
What is the danger of hate speech?
Sytematic phonological variation or pronunciation.
What is accent?
The most common accent Disney uses for villains
What is a British accent?
Le$bian or Le dollar bean
What is an example of algospeak or another way to code the word lesbian?
When someone is denied access to basic human rights (housing, medical care, employment, etc) because of their stigmatized accent.
What is linguistic profiling?
The educational system, the news media, the entertainment industry, and corporate America/the workplace.
What are the four components of Standard Language Ideology?
Habitual be—They be studying.
What is an example of 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.
The word “queer” used to be a negative term, but people who identify as queer now embrace the term.
What is an example of semantic reclamation?
Nick Fuentes, an influential white nationalist podcaster, appears to be one of the early instigators in promoting the phrase on November 5. His X post, “Your body, my choice. Forever.”
What is hate speech? or
What is an example of misogynistic language?
What is a language assault?