A talk from Kelly Wright about raciolinguistic profiling, as part of a virtual speaker series at the University of Kent which has had several linguists on to give talks recently, including Kirby Conrod and Lauren Ackerman. Description: 

Forensic Linguistics in Court: The Unabomber

Jim Fitzgerald, formerly of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, has worked on many cases that attracted national attention, including the JonBenét Ramsey case and the post 9/11 anthrax scare, as well as the Unabomber case, which he discusses with host Jerri Williams on FBI Retired Case File Review in the audio above.

你知道吗——你的口音会影响到房东是否让你看房租房的决定 那些在电话里听上去有白人口音的人更容易拿到面试

Linguistic profiling is the practice of making assumptions about a person's social class, race, or religion based on their accent or dialect. The man who coined this term is John Baugh, a professor of Linguistics who designed an experiment to understand the basic aspects of linguistic profiling.

In his study, he made several phone calls where he, using different accents, inquired about the availability of apartments that have been advertised on paper. He found that when he used an African American or Latino accent, he was less successful in making appointments to view the apartment. However, he was more successful in making these appointments whenever he used a Standard American Accent.

Source: Lippi-Green 2012:324