The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice

by Setter, Jane; Dovchin, Sender; Ramjattan, Vijay A.

• ISBN13: 9780192869203
• ISBN10: 0192869205
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192695895
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-12-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Jane Setter, Professor of Phonetics, University of Reading,Sender Dovchin, Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow, Curtin University,Vijay A. Ramjattan, Instructor, International Foundation Program, University of Toronto

Jane Setter is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading. Probably best known as co-editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2011), she is also the author of the public-facing Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say But How You Say It (OUP, 2019) and of Hong Kong English (co-authored with Brian Hok-Shing Chan and Cathy S. P. Wong; Edinburgh University Press, 2010), among others. Her research publications are mainly in speech prosody, investigating pronunciation and phonology in Global Englishes and in children with speech and language differences. She is a National Teaching Fellow of UK Advance HE and an advocate of public engagement with research.

Sender Dovchin is Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow at the School of Education, Curtin University. She was identified as 'Top Researcher in the field of Language and Linguistics' under Humanities, Arts, and Literature in The Australian's 2021 Research Magazine, and in the top 250 researchers in Australia in 2021. Her recent research focuses on empowering vulnerable youth in Australia by combatting linguistic racism, providing a pedagogical view to accommodate the multiple co-existences of linguistic diversity in a globalized world. Her books include Language, Social Media, and Ideologies (Springer, 2020) and Translingual Discrimination (Cambridge University Press, 2022).


Vijay A. Ramjattan is an instructor in the International Foundation Program at the University of Toronto, where he also received his PhD in Adult Education and Community Development (with a specialization in Workplace Learning and Social Change). His scholarship relates to the intersections of language, race, and work and can be found in journals such as the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Industrial Relations, Teaching in Higher Education, and TESOL Quarterly. He is also very active on Twitter/X, which he uses to express his research interests in concise form.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rearticulating Prejudice in Relation to Language, Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and Vijay A. RamjattanPart I. Gender and Sexuality1. Sexism and Sexist Language, Ting-Fai Yu2. Gender and Gendered Language, Jaspal Naveel Singh3. Anti-Trans, Anti-Gender, and Transphobic Language, Jordan J. Tudisco4. Anti-LGB Language, Helen Sauntson5. Voice Quality, Pitch, and Gender Discrimination, Joe Pearce, Jane Setter, and Amalia ArvanitiPart II: Ableism6. Cultural Stigmatization and Linguistic Prejudice in Deaf Education in Ghana, George Akanlig-Pare and Mary Edward7. Language and Discursive Production of Blind Subjects: A Study of Gujarati Small Stories, Zarana Maheshwari8. Linguistic Prejudice and Discrimination against Autistic People, Valéria Aydos, Luiz Henrique Magnani, and Gustavo Henrique Rückert9. Prejudice and Discrimination against Adults Living with Acquired Cognitive-Communication, Christina Samuelsson, Nicole Müller, and Lars-Christer Hydén10. The Role of Metaphor and Indexicality in the Reinforcement of Social Meanings of Disability, Rod HermestonPart III: Race and Ethnicity11. 'Racial Blindness' and 'Racial Ignorance' in the Sociolinguistic Arena: The Case of the Balkans and South Korea, Eldin Milak and Ana Tankosic12. Xenophobia and Migration, Federico Faloppa13. Heritage Languages, Haley De Korne, Judith Purkarthofer, and Maria Obojska14. Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO): A Conflict of Paradigms and its Resolution through New Protocols, Yaron Matras15. Incredible Language and Refugee Legal Processes: Challenging Asylum Credibility Assessments, Laura Smith-KhanPart IV: Social Issues16. Accentism, Stephanie Dryden, Min Wang, and Sender Dovchin17. Dialectism, Dominic Watt18. Age, Ageism, and Ageist Language, Catherine MacDonald, Christina Peoples, Jenny Inker, and Tracey Gendron19. Examining Discrimination and Prejudice as Emerging Constructs in Health Communication Scholarship, Patrick J. Dillon, Bianca Siegenthaler, and Ambar Basu20. Poverty and Wealth, Laura L. Paterson21. Social Status and Linguistic Prejudice in Brazil, Gladis Massini-Cagliari22. Language Prejudice and Discrimination on Social Media Platforms in Southern Africa, Beatha Set, Phillip Mpofu, and Tendai ChariV: Politics and Religion23. Politics, Religion, and the Empiring of Languages in Brazil, Colombia, and Ukraine, Bridget A. Goodman, Yecid Ortega, and Sandro R. Barros24. The Symbolic Power of Written Language in the Andes, Juan C. Godenzzi25. Understanding Linguistic Prejudice through Linguistic Landscapes, Dariush Izadi26. Language, Religious Determinism, and Prejudices in Digital Spaces: Historical Antecedents of Colonialism, Shaila SultanaPart VI: Educational Perspectives27. The Representation of Minority People in Kazakhstan School Textbooks: The Invisible 130, Juldyz Smagulova and Karina Narymbetova28. Vulnerability to Raciolinguistic Ideologies within the Language Teaching Profession: From Prejudice to Discrimination, Vander Tavares and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer29. Linguistic Prejudice: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Language Learners in the Australian Education System, Carly Steele, Rhonda Oliver, and Natasha Holzberger30. De-Mystifying Linguistic Prejudice and Discrimination in Standard Language Ideology: Towards Decolonizing Language Education, Yidie Xu and Fan Fang31. Language, (De)colonization, and the Curriculum, Clara Vaz Bauler and Ian CushingPart VII: Combatting Linguistic Prejudice32. Language Guidelines as the Frontier of Anti-Prejudicial Prescriptivism, Beth Malory33. Combatting Inequalities of Multilingualism Online, Ruanni Tupas34. Tackling Linguistic Prejudice through Public Dialogue: The Accentism Project and Accentricity Podcast, Rob Drummond and Sadie Ryan35. Twitter as an Online Counterpedagogy to Linguistic Prejudice, Vijay A. Ramjattan36. Linguistic Prejudice in Academia: The Case of English for Publication Purposes from an Interdisciplinary Angle, Josep Soler and Sergi Morales-Gálvez