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Linguistic Perceptions And Ideologies Of Race And Whiteness In The Usa, Taylor James Chlapowski
Linguistic Perceptions And Ideologies Of Race And Whiteness In The Usa, Taylor James Chlapowski
Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language Dissertations
With white supremacist discourses on the rise in recent years, it is important to investigate the ideologies that construct whiteness in the United States. The definition of who is considered white has been quite vague throughout the history of the US, with conflicting views of who is considered white across society and generations. Language has been found to be a key factor in constructions of race (Alim, 2016a, 2016b) and varieties ideologized as Standard English tend to be associated with whiteness (Bucholtz, 2016).
This study sets out to develop a better understanding of how linguistic varieties relate to perceptions, categorizations, …