A meta-analysis of the effects of speakers' accents on interpersonal evaluations
A meta-analysis of the effects of speakers' accents on interpersonal evaluations
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DOI：
10.1002/ejsp.862
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发表时间：
2012-02-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Giles, Howard
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作者：
Fuertes, Jairo N.;Gottdiener, William H.;Giles, Howard
本文对说话者口音对人际评价影响的实证研究文献进行了元分析。我们对已发表文献的回顾发现了20项比较标准口音（即，大多数人接受的口音）与非标准口音（即，被认为是外国口音或少数民族口音）对说话者的评价。这20项研究在最初的研究人员选择的一系列特征上产生了116个独立的效应量。我们将每个特征分类为属于该领域传统上讨论的三个领域之一，即状态（例如，智力、社会阶层）、团结性（可信度、组内组外成员）和活力（活动水平和活力）。当把美国广播公司口音的说话者与非标准口音的说话者进行比较时，这种影响尤其强烈。这些结果强调了先前的研究表明，说话者的口音对其他人如何看待他们有强大的影响。这些和其他结果进行了讨论，在文献的背景下，沿着在这一领域的未来研究的影响。版权所有（C）2011约翰威利父子有限公司
This paper reports a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the effects of speakers' accents on interpersonal evaluations. Our review of the published literature uncovered 20 studies that have compared the effects of standard accents (i.e., the accepted accent of the majority population) versus non-standard accents (i.e., accents that are considered foreign or spoken by minorities) on evaluations about the speakers. These 20 studies yielded 116 independent effect sizes on an array of characteristics that were selected by the original researchers. We classified each of the characteristics as belonging to one of three domains that have been traditionally discussed in this area, namely status (e.g., intelligence, social class), solidarity (trustworthiness, in-groupout-group member), and dynamism (level of activity and liveliness). The effect was particularly strong when American Network accented speakers were compared with nonstandard-accented speakers. These results underscore prior research showing that speakers' accents have powerful effects on how others perceive them. These and other results are discussed in the context of the literature along with implications for future research in this area. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.