29.2058, Books: Accent and Teacher Identity in Britain: Baratta

The LINGUIST List linguist at listserv.linguistlist.org
Fri May 11 20:53:58 UTC 2018


LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2058. Fri May 11 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.2058, Books: Accent and Teacher Identity in Britain: Baratta

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté,
                                   Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <jecoburn at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 16:52:12
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Accent and Teacher Identity in Britain: Baratta

 


Title: Accent and Teacher Identity in Britain 
Subtitle: Linguistic Favourism and Imposed Identities 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/accent-and-teacher-identity-in-britain-9781350054929/ 


Author: Alex Baratta

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350054943 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 97.20 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350054936 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 97.20 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350054929 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 90.00


Abstract:

In British society, we celebrate diversity and champion equality across many
areas, such as race and religion. However, where do British accents stand? Do
notions such as 'common' or 'posh' still exist regarding certain accents, to
the extent that people are deemed fit, or not, for certain professions,
despite their qualifications? "Accent and Teacher Identity in Britain"
explores these questions and Alex Baratta's research shows that those with
accents regional to the North and Midlands are most likely to be told by
mentors and senior staff to essentially sound less regional, whereas those
from the Home Counties are less likely to be given instructions to change
their accent at all. Baratta investigates the notion of linguistic power, in
terms of which accents appear to be favoured within the context of teacher
training and from the perspective of teachers who feel they lack power in the
construction of their linguistic teacher identity. He also questions modifying
one's accent to meet someone else's standard for what is 'linguistically
appropriate', in terms of how such a modified accent impact on personal
identity. Is accent modification regarded by the individual neutrally or is it
seen as 'selling out'?
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=127254

PUBLISHING PARTNER

    Cambridge University Press
        http://us.cambridge.org

MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Akademie Verlag GmbH
        http://www.oldenbourg-verlag.de/akademie-verlag

    Bloomsbury Linguistics (formerly Continuum Linguistics)
        http://www.bloomsbury.com

    Brill
        http://www.brill.nl

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing
        http://www.c-s-p.org

    Cascadilla Press
        http://www.cascadilla.com/

    Classiques Garnier
        http://www.classiques-garnier.com/

    De Gruyter Mouton
        http://www.degruyter.com/

    Edinburgh University Press
        http://www.euppublishing.com

    Elsevier Ltd
        http://www.elsevier.com/

    Equinox Publishing Ltd
        http://www.equinoxpub.com/

    European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
        http://www.elra.info/

    Georgetown University Press
        http://www.press.georgetown.edu/

    John Benjamins
        http://www.benjamins.com/

    Lincom GmbH
        http://www.lincom-shop.eu/

    MIT Press
        http://mitpress.mit.edu/

    Multilingual Matters
        http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

    Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
        http://www.narr.de/

    Oxford University Press
        oup.com/us

    Palgrave Macmillan
        http://www.palgrave.com/

    Peter Lang AG
        http://www.peterlang.com/

    Rodopi
        http://www.rodopi.nl/

    Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
        http://www.routledge.com/

    Springer
        http://www.springer.com/

    University of Toronto Press
        http://www.utpjournals.com/

    Wiley-Blackwell
        http://www.wiley.com/

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
        http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm

    International Pragmatics Assoc.
        http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

    Linguistic Association of Finland
        http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

    Morgan & Claypool Publishers
        http://www.morganclaypool.com/

    Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
        http://www.lotpublications.nl/

    Seoul National University
        http://j-cs.org/index/index.php

    SIL International Publications
        http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

    Universitat Jaume I
        http://www.uji.es/CA/publ/

    University of Nebraska Press
        http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/

    Utrecht institute of Linguistics
        http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              The IU Foundation Crowd Funding site:
       https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list

               The LINGUIST List FundDrive Page:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2058	
----------------------------------------------------------






More information about the LINGUIST mailing list