Many ethnic minorities in the United States consider themselves to be just as American as their European American counterparts. However, there is a persistent cultural stereotype of ethnic minorities as foreigners (i.e., the perpetual foreigner stereotype) that may be expressed during interpersonal interactions (i.e., foreigner objectification). The goal of the present study was to validate the...

Modern culture, based on disinhibition of cultural trends and on heterodirection, is promoting openmindedness attitudes towards ethnic diversity, but on the other hand also new forms of social representations of the foreigner. Social representation is situated between the psychic field and the social one; it is the representation of oneself and of the other one, hanging between social categorie...

Foreigner-directed and Lombard speech are two examples of speech modes that have increased intelligibility compared to normal speech. Investigating the interactions between altered speech modes and phonological contrasts may throw light on the question of which details are vital in intelligibility enhancement. The present study compares the production of vowel shortening in English, a duration-...

At present, more than 500,000 foreigner workers, most of them from Asian countries with high parasitic infection rates, are working in Korea. Since investigation into the prevalence of parasitic infections in foreigner workers has not yet been conducted in Korea, the present study was performed to determine the parasitic infection status of foreigner workers living in Cheonan City, Chungcheongn...

The present study compares prosodic features of child-directed speech (CDS) and foreigner-directed speech (FDS), to examine whether FDS is a derivative of CDS as suggested in sociolinguistic studies. Twelve female speakers completed a simple referential communication task addressed to an imaginary adult, an imaginary foreigner, and an imaginary child. The results showed that, compared to the ad...

Japanese culture is not easy to understand for the Westerner examining it from the outside. It takes many years of study for a foreigner to get a grip on it, be able to understand what is going on, and at least in some cases see why something is happening. I have put together a list of the major components as I understand it but apologize in advance for things that I have missed or imperfectly ...

The way we talk to people who do not understand and speak our language, or more precisely even, who we think do not understand and speak our language, is different from the language we normally use. It has long been a mystery, however, just how, and to what extent, people adapt to the challenges of unequal and restricted communication conditions: There are reports often anecdotal and speculativ...

This essay negotiates the critical tension between race as an analytic and social construct by examining how becomes socialized in through production presentation of Arab culture two ethnographic case studies: Syrian musicians negotiate musical multiculturalism they integrate into German society independent Egypt navigate racialized entanglements national international security logics that priv...