@article{ref1,
title="Accent, intelligibility, mental health, and trauma",
journal="World Englishes",
year="2018",
author="Bhatia, T.K.",
volume="37",
number="3",
pages="421-431",
abstract="The aim of this article is fourfold: (1) to define the notion of 'accent' from two linguistic and socio-psychological perspectives; (2) to examine the multi-faceted dimensions of accent in terms of the (bio-)linguistic mind and the social mind; (3) to throw a spotlight on the convergence of mental health and accent trauma by presenting a forensic case study of mass murder and suicide committed by an Asian-American, Jiverly Wong, who was traumatized by social exclusion and bullying, possibly due to his limited English proficiency in the form of non-native speech traits exhibited in his accent; and (4) to present evidence from neurolinguistic (f-MRI) studies of social pain caused by social exclusion. The discussion here is framed particularly in the context of intelligibility and interpretability of speech in cross-cultural communication through world Englishes and the wide-ranging negative reactions to people who speak English with a foreign accent. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0883-2919",
doi="10.1111/weng.12329",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/weng.12329"
}