For that accent, you expect some sort of provincial homey-wisdom intelligence. With a British (Holmes) or French/Belgian (Poirot) accent you expect classic detective intelligence.
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India is the place you're looking for to see how accents are stereotyped. Forget intelligence, class, status, power are all determined by one's English accent.
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This makes a lot of sense. In fact, films about the “triumphant fool” (eg. forrest gump) use this quite often.
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The size of this perceptional effect has been pretty staggering to observe as someone with the ability to switch between American East Coast, Bombay, and English-inflected colonial accents -- American makes me seem smoother & more confident, English smarter & more authoritative.
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And what does the Bombay Indian accent do?
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Despite being a "Southern" accent (at least to the ears of non-Southerners), Craig's accent in Knives Out was still an upper-class variety. It's a gentlemanly drawl, not a redneck's incoherent slurring. So I'd say it still plays to the stereotype.
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In fact there are a number of characters who have this refined southern drawl eg In the Cohen Brothers’ Ladykillers: https://youtu.be/v4ELzJ49aAw pic.twitter.com/xIMjVGLZwo
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Are you familiar with sociolinguistic prestige? It’s the framework that linguists use to analyse this, the perception of different dialects & registers. You’re referring to *overt* low prestige, where a speaker is stereotyped as unintelligent, backward, rural, working-class, &c.
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There is also *covert* prestige, whereby speakers find solidarity or do in-group signalling in each other’s dialect, like a shibboleth. For example, I can use the “gay accent” or otherwise queer-coded language to signal to fellow queer people that I’m “safe” & on their side.
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This generally checks out. I'm from the South, and don't have that much of an accent, but I've noticed that some of my friends with thicker accents get viewed and treated in certain ways.
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Like, in the "you have a rural southern accent so you must have folksy knowledge" sort of way.
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