Language attitudes in the employment interview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12011008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Hopper (0000-0003-3985-2828, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 346-351 |
| Publication date | 1977-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Monographs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-7751 • E-ISSN: 1479-5787 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03637757709390145 |
| OpenAlex | W1978591072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 1 |
This research examined effects upon employment decisions of an interviewee's speech characteristics, as displayed in job interviews. The hypothesis behind this study was that an applicant's speech characteristics affect hiring decisions in ways which could be separated from influences due to the applicant's ethnicity
Affect (linguistics · Ethnic group · Job interview · Sociology · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Psychology · Social Psychology
Speaker Evaluation Measures of Language Attitudes
Attitudes to Language
Powerful and powerless styles of talk
Gender schemas and perceptions of speech style
White listeners’ responses to “sounding black” and “sounding white”
Language attitudes revisited
Change and Stability in Intergroup Perceptions
Measuring Language Attitudes
Speech Convergence and Speech Evaluation in Fact-Finding Interviews
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2013 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |