Shedding new light on the evaluation of accented speakers: basic mechanisms behind nonnative listeners’ evaluations of nonnative accented job candidates
- The present research unites two emergent trends in the area of language attitudes: (a) research on perceptions of nonnative speakers by nonnative listeners and (b) the search for general, basic mechanisms underlying the evaluation of nonnative accented speakers. In three experiments featuring an employment situation, German participants listened to a presentation given in English by a German speaker with a strong versus native-like accent (in Studies 1–3) versus a native speaker of English (in Study 1). They evaluated candidates with a strong accent worse than candidates with a native(-like) pronunciation—even to the degree that the quality of arguments was of no relevance (Study 1). Study 2 introduces an effective intervention to reduce these discriminatory tendencies. Across studies, affect and competence emerged as major mediators of hirability evaluations. Study 3 further revealed sequential indirect influences, which advance our understanding of previous inconsistent findings regarding disfluency and warmth perceptions.
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| Author: | Janin RoesselORCiDGND, Christiane SchoelGND, Renate Zimmermann, Dagmar StahlbergORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-116262 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X17747904 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6526 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Language and Social Psychology |
| Publisher: | SAGE |
| Place of publication: | Thousand Oaks |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/04/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Zweitveröffentlichung] |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | affect; competence; comprehensibility; language attitudes; mechanisms; nonnative accents; prejudice and discrimination; processing fluency; stereotyping; warmth |
| GND Keyword: | Akzent; Deutsch; Diskriminierung; Englisch; Language attitude; Non-native speaker; Stereotypisierung; Vorurteil |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 3 |
| Last Page: | 32 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |