ABSTRACT Reverse linguistic stereotyping reveals how ideologies about race and gender intersect to form expectations through indexical inversion.Despite the longstanding presence of East Asian‐ and African‐descending communities in Italy, conceptualizations of the idealized speaker are embedded inwhite italianità .This study explores younger and older Italians’ expectations whenaRoman Italian voice is paired with photos of men and women categorized as “Italian,” “African,” or “East Asian.”Findings demonstrate that both age groups evaluated the female Roman voice paired with the photo of the “East Asian” woman least favorably on the language‐oriented social attributes of native speaker and prestige . These results offer critical insights into the raciolinguistic and misogynistic complexities of language proficiency in Italy.In doing so, they shed light on the importance of intersectional approaches in language perception studies.
Gabriella Licata (Sun,) studied this question.