Trying American

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In this scene Daphne shares her frustration with how people react to her accent. This demonstrates how different accents and dialects index social identity, eliciting feelings and reactions sometimes unwanted by the speaker. These interactions may influence future discourse practices.

Posted by Crystal Ronduelas on June 27, 2017

Tags:
Indexicality;
Accommodation;
Stigma;
Perceptual Dialectology;
Pitch

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