If you are interested in the topic of impressions and perceptions based on
a person's mode of verbal expression, you might enjoy Rosina Lippi-Green's
_English with an Accent_ (New York: Routledge), 1997.

RPM

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Katherine Bolinger wrote:

> << Americans like to think they speak the same language as the Brits, but we
> don't. >>
>
> American's thinking the English are more intellectual because they speak
> with English accents and the English thinking Americans aren't so
> intellectual because we don't have English accents. Perhaps these examples
> are proof that his hypothesis is correct.
>

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