Fantasy books and films are a massive hit with both readers and spectators. Although the tales occur in a fictional realm, the characters always speak with British accents instead of American accents.

The American accents in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey have a lot to tell us about power.

Introduction: language ideology: science fiction? -- The linguistic facts of life -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language ideology and the language subordination model -- ...

State Capital in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit – chmeredith, CC SA 2.0. The southern accent is slowly disappearing in parts of U.S. South, a new study has found. The accent which has many variations is ...