TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Accent, intelligibility, mental health, and trauma
JO  - World Englishes
A1  - Bhatia, T.K.
SP  - 421
EP  - 431
VL  - 37
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0883-2919
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/weng.12329
ID  - ref1
ER  -