ABSTRACT
Like the previous chapters, this chapter draws from the sociolinguistic work of diverse scholars and participants’ testimonies to underscore various ways in which linguistic minorities, including bilingual students and professors of various ethnicities, have experienced systemic accent discrimination, or “accentism” for short. Accentism is defined as a dominant ideology that favors accents constructed as standard over others labeled as lower- or inferior-class, leading to accent discrimination against minoritized linguistic groups.
