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Pragmatic and knowledge range lenience towards foreigners.

Anna Lorenzoni¹, Elena Pagliarini², Francesco Vespignani¹

¹Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.

Acta Psychologica

|March 27, 2022

Summary

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Speaker identity, not accent, influences judgments. Participants found statements more acceptable and true when attributed to a foreign speaker, suggesting linguistic identity impacts message interpretation.

Keywords:

Credibility Foreign-accented speech Message interpretation Scalar implicature Social categorization Speaker identity

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Foreign-accented speech often leads to perceptions of lower competence and different knowledge.
Previous research focused on accent, but the impact of perceived linguistic identity alone is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if identifying a speaker as native or foreign impacts judgments of trivia statements, independent of accent.
To determine if linguistic identity influences the perceived truthfulness and acceptability of information.

Main Methods:

Italian native speakers read biographies of native and foreign speakers.
Participants rated the sensibility or truthfulness of statements attributed to each speaker type.
Written presentation ensured constant fluency processing between native and foreign speakers.

Main Results:

Statements were judged as more acceptable when associated with the foreign speaker (Study 1).
Unknown facts were rated as more acceptable (Study 2) and true (Study 3) when linked to the foreign speaker.
The foreign speaker was perceived as more trustworthy than the native speaker (Study 3).

Conclusions:

Linguistic identity, irrespective of accent, significantly impacts evaluation judgments.
Message interpretation is inherently linked to the perceived identity of the communicator.
This highlights the role of social cognition in processing information from different linguistic backgrounds.