- Acoustic Identity, Cultural Studies, Sociolinguistics, Critical applied linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Ethnography of Communication, and 11 moreCross-Cultural Studies, Pragmatics, Race and Ethnicity, Identity politics, Conceptual Metaphor, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Language and Identity (Languages And Linguistics), Cultural Memory, Ethnicity, and Linguistic ethnographyedit
- Alice Filmer is an Associate Professor of English working in the Academic Support Directorate at the Defense Language... moreAlice Filmer is an Associate Professor of English working in the Academic Support Directorate at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey. She teaches critical thinking and discourse analysis skills to students whose first language is English and who are studying one of several widely-spoken world languages. She is also active in faculty and curriculum development.edit
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Abstract In this paper, the author examines from multiple perspectives a phenomenon she calls “acoustic identity” and demonstrates the inseparability of speech from race, ethnicity, culture, and nationality as criteria used to establish... more
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In this paper, the author examines from multiple perspectives a phenomenon she calls “acoustic identity” and demonstrates the inseparability of speech from race, ethnicity, culture, and nationality as criteria used to establish identity. The study begins with an autoethnographic account of the Anglo-American author’s voluntary immersion into the medium of northern Mexican Spanish and is followed by an ethnographic inquiry into the linguistic experiences of several other mono/bi/multi-lingual individuals. This auto/ethnographic methodology exposes the socio-cultural and political significance of acoustic identity by comparing the disparate experiences and treatment of mono/bi/multi-lingual speakers from dominant (Euro-American) and non-dominant (Mexican-American, African-American, and Australian-Aboriginal) social groups. Among the ethical implications of this analysis is the imperative to recognize the relationship between linguistic and racial/ethnic stereotyping as well as the conflation of (Standard) English(es) with whiteness and the West.
In this paper, the author examines from multiple perspectives a phenomenon she calls “acoustic identity” and demonstrates the inseparability of speech from race, ethnicity, culture, and nationality as criteria used to establish identity. The study begins with an autoethnographic account of the Anglo-American author’s voluntary immersion into the medium of northern Mexican Spanish and is followed by an ethnographic inquiry into the linguistic experiences of several other mono/bi/multi-lingual individuals. This auto/ethnographic methodology exposes the socio-cultural and political significance of acoustic identity by comparing the disparate experiences and treatment of mono/bi/multi-lingual speakers from dominant (Euro-American) and non-dominant (Mexican-American, African-American, and Australian-Aboriginal) social groups. Among the ethical implications of this analysis is the imperative to recognize the relationship between linguistic and racial/ethnic stereotyping as well as the conflation of (Standard) English(es) with whiteness and the West.