Recommended Resources
This page of recommended resources follows from my presentation at the University of Edinburgh's Senior Leadership for Women of Colour Programme Celebratory Event in May 2022.
The text of my talk is available as a PDF, here.
The text of my talk is available as a PDF, here.
Cited references
- Hall-Lew, L., Couceiro, I. P., & Fairs, A. (2019). Credibility without intelligibility: Implications for hearing vernacular speakers. In Blake, R., & Buchstaller, I. (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford (pp. 221-231). Routledge.
- Kang, O., & Rubin, D. L. (2009). Reverse linguistic stereotyping: Measuring the effect of listener expectations on speech evaluation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 28(4), 441-456.
- Rickford, J. R., & King, S. (2016). Language and linguistics on trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other vernacular speakers) in the courtroom and beyond. Language, 948-988.
Further reading
- The Accentism Project https://accentism.org/
- Accent Bias Britain https://accentbiasbritain.org/
- Crash Course: Sociolinguistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of4XzrbkknM
- 10 Ways to Tackle Linguistic Bias in Our Classrooms https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/01/27/how-professors-can-and-should-combat-linguistic-prejudice-their-classes-opinion
- The Race Gap in Speech Recognition Technology https://fairspeech.stanford.edu/
- Black Languages Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5xzlGHqv7w
