Not That Smart

Language and Code Switching


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How does the way we speak change our relationship with people, and why do we speak the way we do to begin with? I ask myself these questions a lot, and in this episode I talk about some of the thoughts I have about it. Featuring contributions from Ale de Luis.

Socials:
Me - Instagram: @itsnotthatsmart
Ale - Instagram: @churchofmidnight

Sources:
DeBose, Charles (1992). "Codeswitching: Black English and Standard English in the African-American linguistic repertoire". In Eastman, Carol (ed.). Codeswitching. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. pp. 157–167.

Norman, Johanna. “Student’s Self-Perceived English Accent and Its Impact on Their Communicative Competence and Speaking Confidence An Empirical Study Among Students Taking English 6 in UpperSecondary School .” University of Stockholm Academy for Education and Economics, University of Stockholm Press, 2017, pp. 1–26. 

Subtirelu, Nicholas Close. “‘She Does Have an Accent but…’: Race and Language Ideology in Students' Evaluations of Mathematics Instructors on RateMyProfessors.com.” Language in Society, vol. 44, no. 1, 2015, pp. 35–62., doi:10.1017/S0047404514000736.

Baratta, Alex. (2016). Keeping it real or selling out: The effects of accent modification on personal identity. Pragmatics and Society. 7. 291-319. 10.1075/ps.7.2.06bar. 

Song:

“Synthwave” by Ryan Andersen, licence link- 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ryan_Andersen#contact-artist









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