But unless there is sufficient teacher knowledge (and support from school leaders) about these things and a better grasp of the links between language, society, history and the individual, it's hard to do these issues justice. Anyway, this blog tries to gather some of those strands together.

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We also talked to teachers, both in that episode and in various conversations elsewhere. And it was clear that attitudes to accents didn’t have to be negative, that in many cases, teachers were aware of how interested students were in the issues around accents.

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There are clearly things that linguists *can* do – make people more aware of language issues, help teachers develop more language in the national curriculum – but there are also things that need to be addressed outside language – eg addressing inequality and challenging prejudice.

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...and that turned into a bit of a bumper episode creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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We talked on the @lexispodcast.bsky.social to linguists Alex Baratta, Amanda Cole & @robdrummond.bsky.social about the wider issues – how accents differ, how accentism is just another form of prejudice linked to place, class and race, and what linguists have done to combat it...

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