Week 6 - Vocal Expressions of the Self (accents) Flashcards

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What is the focus of vocal expressions of the self?

A

▪ Extend our exploration of culture and self by
considering what happens when people
interact vocally…
▪ Accent as a fluid marker of identity and social
groups.

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What is non-verbal communication, language, speech style, and paralanguage?

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Non-verbal communication: proxemics, kinesics (posture/gestures/embelms), touch, gaze, facial expression

Language
Speech style: accent, language e.g. french, dialecy

Paralanguage/Prosody: rhythm, pitch, pauses, volume

“Accent can trigger social categorisation in a prompt, automatic, and occasionally unconscious
manner,” Ze Wang of the University of Central Florida

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Accent as a social marker

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  • Operates before birth
  • Detected within one word
  • Speakers are evaluated by main clusters of status and solidarity
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Speech and Social Groups

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* Social Identity Theory influenced Howard
Giles’ Ethno-linguistic Identity Theory
(2012)
* Speech is important to the norms of E-L
groups
and reflects their shared social ties
* Such groups have “Vitality” but may
commit “Suicide”
* Matched guise paradigm

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Relating accents to Summative 4

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  • As with social media, accents give us fluid,
    reflexive intersectional identities which are
    reinvented
  • Yet they exist in the offline space, and
  • There are different norms and expectations
    around their use
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what does this leave us?

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  • The voice is an extremely powerful yet fluid boundary marker for social identity
  • It therefore highlights the problematic nature of multi- cultural interaction, freedoms, and ‘ownerships’… which makes it - political and moral
  • You sound as you do because of how you position yourself within culture, and how culture has positioned you
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Do you change your speech when you meet other people?

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Yes,
- might be out of embarassment
- self monitoring; quickly change according to their surroundings

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