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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2020.1759504
- Data findings show that one of the most critical factors affecting the mental health of international students is the link between psychological damages and perceived racism reported by international students based on their usage of English. This study, thereby, addresses two main research questions:
- particular racialized people’s linguistic practices can be stigmatized regardless of whether they correspond to Standard English.
- Asian accents such as Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese (and so forth) accents seem to be inherently located in the hazard zone of global English accents (Blommaert 2009), often exposed to linguistic shaming such as ‘peripheral speakers as incomprehensible or as ridiculous impostors’ (Piller 2016, 197), and bullied in the popular discourse of mockery and travesty aggravated by the prejudice of people towards non-native speakers of English (Hanish and Guerra 2000).
- Language is never judged in separation from the speakers, as they face pre-fixed assumptions about his/her English fluency because of how they racially and ethnically look.