Hostname: page-component-74656f9884-g96k6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-10T06:54:59.416Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Cross Cultural Social Status Perception in Speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

David V. Mays
David V. Mays
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

During the course of each day, we meet many people and form quick judgments about not only their mood and general intelligence, but about their character and social background as well. Personal appearance, facial expression, body movement, and linguistic cues are but a few of the sources of data that we interpret. It has been a matter of much debate in the last fifty years as to whether these data are cross-culturally significant, or whether they have meaning only within a given cultural milieu. This study was an attempt to determine if linguistic cues of social status have such a cross-cultural significance.

Information

Type
Research Notes
Information
Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Fall 1982 , pp. 52 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Anisfeld, E. and Lambert, W.E., 1964. Evaluational reactions of bilingual and monolingual children to spoken languages. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 69. 89–97.Google Scholar
Brown, B.L. 1977. Paralinguistics: The tacit dimension in social judgment. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.Google Scholar
Brown, B.L., and Lambert, W.E.. 1970. Cross-cultural social class markers in speech. manuscript.Google Scholar
Brown, B.L. 1976. A cross-cultural study of social status markers in speech. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science 8. 39–55.Google Scholar
Brown, B.L., Strong, W.J., and Rencher, A.C.. 1975. Acoustic determinants of perceptions of personality from speech. Linguistics—An International Review. 11–32.Google Scholar
Brown, B.L., Strong, W.J., and Rencher, A.C.. 1974. Fifty four voices from two: The effect of simultaneous manipulations of rate, pitch, and variance of intonation on ratings of personality from speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 55. 313–318.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ellis, D.S. 1967. Speech and social status in America. Social Forces 45. 431–437.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frender, R., Brown, B.L., and Lambert, W.E.. 1970. The role of speech characteristics in scholastic success. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science 2. 299–306.Google Scholar
Giles, H., Bourhis, R.Y., and Davies, A.P.. 1975. Prestige speech styles: the imposed norm and inherent value hypothesis. Language in Anthropology IV: Language in Many Ways, ed. by McCormack, W.C. and Wurm, S.. The Hague: Mouton.Google Scholar
Giles, H., Bourhis, R.Y., Trudgill, P., and Lewis, A.. 1974. The imposed norm hypothesis: A validation. Quarterly Journal of Speech 60. 405–410.Google Scholar
Hall, Judith. 1978. Gender effects in decoding nonverbal cues. Psychological Bulletin 85. 845–857.Google Scholar
Harms, L.S. 1961. Listener comprehension of speakers of three status groups. Language and Speech 4. 109–112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harms, L.S. 1961. Listener judgments of status cues in speech. Quarterly Journal of Speech 47. 164–168.Google Scholar
Harms, L.S. 1963. Status cues in speech: Extra-race and extra-region identification. Lingua 12. 300–306.Google Scholar
Hart, R.J. and Brown, B.L., 1974. Interpersonal information conveyed by the content and vocal aspects of speech. Speech Monographs 41. 371–380.Google Scholar
Hymes, D.H. 1961. Linguistic aspects of cross cultural personality study. Studying personality cross-culturally, ed. by Kaplan, B., 313–360. New York: Harper and Row.Google Scholar
Kramer, E. 1963. Judgment of personal characteristics and emotions from nonverbal properties of speech. Psychological Bulletin 60. 408–420.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lambert, W.E. 1967. A social psychology of bilingualism. Journal of Social Issues 23. 91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lambert, W.E., Hodgson, R.C., Gardner, R.C., and Fillenbaum, S.. 1960. Evaluational reactions to spoken languages. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 60. 44–51.Google Scholar
Markel, N.N., Meisels, M., and Houck, J.E., 1964. Judging personality from voice quality. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 69. 458–463.Google Scholar
Markel, N.N. and Roblin, G.L.. 1965. The effect of content and sex-of-judge of judgments of personality from voice. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 11. 295–300.Google Scholar
Mays, D. 1981. Cross cultural social status perception in speech. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University.Google Scholar
Moe, J.D. 1972. Listener judgments of status cues in speech: A replication and extension. Speech Mongraphs 39. 144–147.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mulac, A., Hanley, T., and Prigge, D., 1974. Effects of phonological speech foreignness upon three dimensions of attitude of selected American listeners. Quarterly Journal of Speech 60. 401–420.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostwald, P.E. 1965. Acoustic methods in psychiatry. Scientific American 212. 82.Google Scholar
Phillis, J. A. 1970. Children's judgments of personality on the basis of voice quality. Developmental Psychology 3. 411.Google Scholar
Putnam, G.N. and O'Hearn, E.. 1955. The status significance of an isolated urban dialect. Language 2. 31–34.Google Scholar
Scherer, K.R. 1972. Judging personality from voice: A cross-cultural approach to an old issue in interpersonal perception. Journal of Personality 40. 191–210.Google Scholar
Scherer, K.R., London, H., and Wolf, J.. 1973. The voice of confidence: Paralinguistic cues and audience evaluation. Journal of Research in Personality 7. 31–44.Google Scholar
Smith, B.L., Brown, B.L., Strong, W.J., and Rencher, A.C.. 1975. Effects of speech rate on personality perception. Language and Speech 18. 145–152.Google Scholar
Starkweather, J.A. 1956. The communication value of content free speech. American Journal of Psychology 69. 121–123.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tucker, G.R. and Lambert, W.E.. 1969. White and Negro listeners' reactions to various American-English dialects. Social Forces 47. 463–468.Google Scholar
Van Nieuwenhuijze, C.A.D. 1965. Social stratification and the Middle East. Leiden: Netherlands.Google Scholar
Williams, C.E. and Stevens, K.N.. 1972. Emotions and speech: Some acoustical correlates. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 52. 1238–1250.Google Scholar
Williams, F. 1970. Psychological correlates of speech characteristics: On sounding disadvantaged. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 13. 472–488.Google Scholar
Williams, F. and Naremore, R., 1969. Social class differences in children's syntactic performance: A quantitative analysis of field study data. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 12. 777–793.Google Scholar