#Accentism

This is me on talking to @DrMatthewSweet, @TimandraHarknes, @selina_todd and @David_Goodhart about language, class and social mobility. At the end of my segment I was told fairly firmly that linguistic
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I’m personally touched by the Vusi chat because going to UCT one was judged on their accent and what school they went to. Orientation week everyone would gauge how to
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South Africa is a very exclusionary country, ACCENTS are one of the ways to exclude people. We use accents to determine your intelligence & class position. An English or “White”
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DONJONS, DRAGONS & ... SOCIOLINGUISTIQUE "Linguista sum, linguistici nihil a me alienum puto" écrivait Roman Jakobson. ("Je suis un linguiste, rien de ce qui est linguistique ne m'est étranger")Oui, quand
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