Episode 45 - Alex Baratta and accentism

<p><strong>Show notes for Episode 45</strong></p> <p><strong>Here are the show notes for Episode 45, in which we talk to Dr Alex Baratta, Senior Lecturer in Language, Linguistics &amp; Communication, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester about:</strong></p> <ul> <li><p><strong>Accents, accents… and more accents!</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>Teacher accents and ‘professionalism’</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>Social connotations and stereotypes of accents - good and bad</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>Why one accent isn’t ‘better’ than another and why exposure to accents might be the way to overcome accentism</strong></p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>In our regular Lang in the News segment we talk about how formal greetings and sign-offs might be becoming a thing of the past and why that’s the fault of… well, pretty much everyone that Daily Mail readers don’t like. We also have a quick chat about the European-wide attempts to make language more inclusive, the first round of WOTY2023 and we big up Rob Drummond’s book, You’re All Talk.</strong></p> <p>Alex Baratta’s University of Manchester page: </p> <p><a href="https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alex.baratta">https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alex.baratta</a> </p> <p>Some of the articles, books and research we mentioned: </p> <p><a href="https://theconversation.com/teachers-with-northern-accents-are-being-told-to-posh-up-heres-why-88425">https://theconversation.com/teachers-with-northern-accents-are-being-told-to-posh-up-heres-why-88425</a> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/british_politics/2017/06/putting-an-accent-on-things-the-need-to-clarify-speech-expectations-for-british-teachers/">http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/british_politics/2017/06/putting-an-accent-on-things-the-need-to-clarify-speech-expectations-for-british-teachers/</a>  </p> <p><a href="https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/clarifying-accent-standards-for-british-teachers">https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/clarifying-accent-standards-for-