Inferring skin colour from voice
A case study on linguistic prejudice
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2023.1.87Keywords:
linguicism, vernacular, non-standard dialects, linguistic bias, linguistic background, linguistic disadvantages, language attitudes, language stereotypesAbstract
On February 15 2021, news about a bank fraud was published and shared on the Facebook page of Telex.hu. The author reports on a telephone fraud, and the essence of the incident is that the suspect pretended to be an employee of a larger Hungarian bank, trying to obtain personal account data from his victims. One of the people he called was a reader of Telex.hu. She recorded the telephone conversation and sent the recording to the editorial office of the news portal. From the recording that takes 2 minutes and 19 seconds, it becomes apparent that the caller speaks a dialect. The goal of this study is to present the function, characteristics and possible explanations of linguistic prejudices about vernacular dialects and specific linguistic markers through an analysis of the comments that this article received. After describing the theoretical framework, the study presents the background and method of the analysis before discussing the results and their implications.
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