The unbearable weight of the accent

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia

First Page

62

Last Page

76

Publisher

Routledge / Taylor & Francis

School

School of Education

RAS ID

62724

Comments

Zhao, Y., & Gong, Q. (2023). The unbearable weight of the accent. In S. Dovchin, Q. Gong, T. Dobinson & M. McAlinden (Eds.), Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia (pp. 62-76). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317128-6

Abstract

We are two academics who migrated from China to Australia. Yue got her undergraduate degree majoring in English and teaching, while Qian majored in English and journalism. We then both started our careers as a university teacher and journalist respectively. When we discussed our experience for this collaborative autoethnographic project, the strongest link between us was how the hegemony of accent, Chinese or English, influenced and changed our life trajectories.

DOI

10.4324/9781003317128-6

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