Hating one's own speech

[Mireille Mclaughlin]

It's perhaps dated, but William Lambert's 1964 psych-soc work using match
guise speakers also shed light on the links between the status of languages
and the attitudes speakers have toward them.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1966.tb00044.x/abstract


Mireille McLaughlin


2013/5/18 Jim Wilce <Jim.Wilce at nau.edu>

> If "hate" is too strong a word, "shame" is not. Bonner 2001 and
> McEwan-Fujita are among those who have documented language shame. It seems
> to me a crucial concept (along with pride!) in relation to studies of
> language shift and revitalization (McEwan-Fujita 2010). It's worth looking
> at classic work on shame by Elias, Scheff, Lynd, Giddens, Honneth, etc. See
> also my attempt to theorize language and shame/ language shame in /Language
> and Emotion/ (e.g., pp. 116-118), and shame more generally in /Crying
> Shame/ (2009, especially chapter 7).
>
> Bonner, Donna M.
> 2001 Garifuna Children's Language Shame : Ethnic Stereotypes, National
> Affiliation, and Transnational Immigration as Factors in Language Choice in
> Southern Belize. Language in Society 30(1):81-96.
> Elias, Norbert
> 2000 (1939) The Civilizing Process. Oxford, Malden: Blackwell.
> Giddens, Anthony
> 1991 Modernity and Self-Identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
> Honneth, Axel
> 1995 The Fragmented World of the Social: Essays in Social and Political
> Philosophy Albany: State University of New York Press.
> Lynd, Helen Merrell
> 1966 [1958] On Shame and the Search for Identity. New York: Science
> Editions.
> McEwan-Fujita, Emily
> 2010 Ideology, affect, and socialization in language shift and
> revitalization: The experiences of adults learning Gaelic in the Western
> Isles of Scotland. Language in Society 39(1):27–64.
> Scheff, Thomas
> 2000 Shame and the Social Bond: A Sociological Theory. Sociological Theory
> 18(1):84-98.
> Wilce, James M.
> 2009a Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of
> Lament.
> Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
> 2009b Language and Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
> Jim Wilce
>
>
> On 5/16/13 12:10 PM, Eric Henry wrote:
>
>> A student asked me for some resources today on "people who hate how they
>> speak." It got me thinking about the devaluation of nonstandard dialects or
>> accents by standardizing language ideologies, and how they are adopted and
>> reproduced even by the speakers themselves.
>>
>> A lot of the cases that came to mind though are more ambivalent than
>> negative - that is, while the speakers may perceive their own speech to be
>> problematic (especially in official or institutional interactions), they
>> still maintain positive social value in other domains (the domestic or
>> local sphere). I'm trying to think of any research on situations where
>> speakers aesthetically stigmatize their own speech across the full range of
>> interactional contexts. Any thoughts? Feel free to reply on or off list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric Henry
>>
>>
>
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