Standard Language
Accent discrimination
What is language-trait focused discrimination?
The most common dialect and accent of Disney princesses
What is Standard American English?
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 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?
Sytematic phonological variation or pronunciation.
What is accent?
The most common accent Disney uses for villains
What is a British accent?
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.
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?