Accent bias and language as a social construct with Vijay Ramjattan | Ep. #10

Abundate: Learning a language is not what you think

Hedvig speaks with sociolinguistics researcher Dr Vijay Ramjattan about accents, societal biases, and perception. We tend not to recognise that language is not just a skill, but a social tool with a deep history in power dominance, colonialism and discrimination. This episode contains a few stories about racist discrimination.

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