The Effects of Code Switching Dialects for Black and Brown Professionals
Presenter Major
Speech Language Pathology/Audiology
Presentation Type
Oral
Location
Hays Theatre, Wilbur Arts Building
Start Date
26-4-2024 10:25 AM
End Date
26-4-2024 10:30 AM
Description (Abstract)
Code-switching is changing between two or more languages in the same conversation to assimilate into the dominant culture (Ginsberg, 2018). African American Vernacular has the stigma of being “broken English” (Allen Stewart, 2022), while Standardized American English is known to be preferred when speaking English since it's more “proper”. Some minorities use code-switching to their advantage to help them climb the social ladder in their environments which helps prevent work stress (Clark , 2023). The purpose of my study is to focus on Black and Brown professionals, especially Speech Language Pathologists, and see how code-switching has affected them in their professional workspace. Participants will be ages 18 to 30 years who will listen to speech samples varying from multiple people who speak AAVE and SAE. Participants will have to determine if the speech sample is a professional language that could be used in an SLP workplace.
Keywords
African American Vernacular, Standard American English, Dialects, Professional
Related Pillar(s)
Community, Study
The Effects of Code Switching Dialects for Black and Brown Professionals
Hays Theatre, Wilbur Arts Building
Code-switching is changing between two or more languages in the same conversation to assimilate into the dominant culture (Ginsberg, 2018). African American Vernacular has the stigma of being “broken English” (Allen Stewart, 2022), while Standardized American English is known to be preferred when speaking English since it's more “proper”. Some minorities use code-switching to their advantage to help them climb the social ladder in their environments which helps prevent work stress (Clark , 2023). The purpose of my study is to focus on Black and Brown professionals, especially Speech Language Pathologists, and see how code-switching has affected them in their professional workspace. Participants will be ages 18 to 30 years who will listen to speech samples varying from multiple people who speak AAVE and SAE. Participants will have to determine if the speech sample is a professional language that could be used in an SLP workplace.
