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Methods for the study of accent bias and access to elite professions
(Equinox, 2019-12-18)
Fair access to employment is vital for improving social mobility in Britain today. As language is not explicitly protected by the Equality Act 2010, accent can become a proxy for other forms of discrimination at key junctures ...
50 years of British accent bias: Stability and lifespan change in attitudes to accents
Do accent biases observed half a century ago (Giles 1970) and 15 years ago (Coupland and Bishop 2007) still hold in Britain today? We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and ...
50 years of British accent bias
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022-08-09)