Two Short "As" and a Rolling "R

Autoethnographic Reflections on a “Difficult” Name

Bibliographic Data

ID4182597
AuthorsSara Louise Wheeler (0000-0002-8854-5835, Bangor University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume6
Issue3
Publication date2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244016658935
OpenAlexW2468036577
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited40

Names are an important aspect of our identity and sense of self. For those of us from minority communities, names may be particular, in some way, to our linguistic and cultural heritage, and thus may be at odds with their counterpart names from the dominant cultures within which we reside. The resultant tensions which ensue with regard to pronunciation and transcription can have a profound effect on the bearer of the minority name, inducing feelings of anger, disappointment, embarrassment, shame, and despair. Mispronunciation can also occur at random, even within our own linguistic cultural context, and thus can be just plain annoying. In this autoethnographic article, I draw on examples from my own biography to explore this phenomenon throughout my lifecourse

Anger · Disappointment · Embarrassment · Feeling · Linguistics · Possessive · Pronunciation · Shame · Sociology · Surprise · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology

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