Young people's perspectives on the mobility of Australian English accents
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Starks, Donna
Taylor-Leech, Kerry
Willoughby, Louisa
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2017
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This paper draws on lines of sociolinguistic theory that have arisen in response to globalisation and current thinking about mobilities in the social sciences. Using the constructs of space, scale and centre-periphery, we set out to analyse 564 Australian high school students’ responses to a questionnaire item which asked: ‘If you moved to another country, how important would it be for you to keep your Australian accent?’ Our exploration of the students’ responses through these lenses reveals the diverse ways in which young people imagine the mobility of their own accents and also how they situate the Australian accent more broadly.This paper draws on lines of sociolinguistic theory that have arisen in response to globalisation and current thinking about mobilities in the social sciences. Using the constructs of space, scale and centre-periphery, we set out to analyse 564 Australian high school students’ responses to a questionnaire item which asked: ‘If you moved to another country, how important would it be for you to keep your Australian accent?’ Our exploration of the students’ responses through these lenses reveals the diverse ways in which young people imagine the mobility of their own accents and also how they situate the Australian accent more broadly.
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World Englishes
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Young people's perspectives on the mobility of Australian English accents, World Englishes, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2017, Pages 541-553, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12283. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Specialist studies in education
Language studies
Linguistics
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified