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
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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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