Guest lecture: Accents that disappear, accents that stick Indexicality and Minority Speech in Taiwan

This talk will be delivered by Dr Tsung-Lun Alan Wan, Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

This talk examines the politics of indexicality in Taiwan Mandarin through two cases of minority accent perception. First, Dr Wan will discuss deaf speakers whose Mandarin accents are often heard as ‘foreign', asking how such misrecognition is further perceived by the deaf speakers themselves. Second, he will turn to the opposite phenomenon: the hyper-recognition of a minority accent. Focusing on the rise of Vietnamese accent imitation in Taiwan since 2016, Dr Wan will show how social media has helped form a stereotyped ‘Vietnamese accent' and how Vietnamese migrants may resist being associated with it.

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