Stereotypes, language, and race: Spaniards’ perception of Latin American immigrants

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dc.contributor.authorChappell, Whitney
dc.contributor.authorBarnes, Sonia
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-16T16:36:11Z
dc.date.available2024-02-16T16:36:11Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-11
dc.description.abstractThe present study explores how two symbolic boundaries—linguistic variety and race—intersect, influencing how Latin American immigrants are perceived in Spain. To this end, 217 Spaniards participated in an experiment in which they evaluated three men along a series of social properties, but they were presented with different combinations of linguistic variety (Argentinian, Colombian, or Spanish) and race (a White or Mestizo photograph). The results of mixed-effects regression models found that linguistic variety conditioned participants’ evaluations of status, occupational prestige, solidarity, and trustworthiness, and both variety and race conditioned evaluations of religiousness. We contend that linguistic features become associated with a specific group of people through rhematization (Gal, 2005; Irvine & Gal, 2000) and, by extension, ideologies link those people with stereotypical characteristics. We conclude that the “ideological twinning” (Rosa & Flores, 2017) of race and linguistic variety can enhance stereotypes toward immigrants and impact their experiences in the receiving country.
dc.description.departmentModern Languages and Literatures
dc.identifier.citationChappell, W., & Barnes, S. (2023). Stereotypes, language, and race: Spaniards’ perception of Latin American immigrants. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 11(2), 104–118. doi:10.1017/jlg.2023.5
dc.identifier.issn2049-7547
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2023.5
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/5599
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Linguistic Geography; Volume 11 Issue 2
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subjectsociolinguistic perception
dc.subjectraciolinguistics
dc.subjectlanguage and race
dc.subjectdialect perception
dc.titleStereotypes, language, and race: Spaniards’ perception of Latin American immigrants
dc.typeArticle

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