Alex Baratta
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alex Baratta is involved.
Articles
2021 A lack of phonological inherentness: Perceptions of accents in UK education Pragmatics of Accents, Planchenault, Gaëlle and Livia Poljak (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Chapter
This paper addresses accent preference in the context of UK teaching. From this, there are instances of trainee teachers being told to reduce their accents. The views of 32 teachers were collected and the paper focuses on two specific points. First, it is not the sounds per se that characterise… read more
2016 Keeping it real or selling out: The effects of accent modification on personal identity Pragmatics and Society 7:2, pp. 291–319 | Article
Accent modification is arguably a common practice in Britain, given the often negative class-based assumptions regarding regional accents in particular. Rather than assume that accent modification is a neutral practice, however, the current study asks how accent modification can potentially… read more