Saturday 7 April 2012

Decent Accents Ascent and Indecent Accents Descent

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/young-professionals-are-paying-for-accent-softening-as-they-feel-the-right-voice-will-help-them-get-ahead-3067179.html

Birmingham accents predictably come up as most disadvantaging...sigh.... We covered loads of accent-centric culturo-cartographies in the last few Vocalities sessions, but I still find it incongruous with the premises contemporary life (internet, travel, diaspora etc) that accent still has a class, a culture or even a place ...

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