Introduction: language ideology: science fiction? -- The linguistic facts of life -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language ideology and the language subordination model -- ...

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Ohio’s three regional accents Dr. Katherine Campbell-Kibler, a professor of linguistics at Ohio State University, says Ohio ...

What do you consider the sexiest accent in the United States? Big Seven Travel surveyed its 1.5 million social followers and ranked them from most attractive to least. Coming in at No. 1, that Texas ...

Winn attests that a person's dialect reflects all the places they've lived and all the people who have influenced them. He ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine's visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 ...