Attitudes to Language

Attitudes to Language

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Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even the speed at which...

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Main Author: Garrett, Peter 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom Cambridge University Press. 2010
Series:Key topics in sociolinguistics
Subjects:
Language awareness.
Language and languages > Variation.
Sociolinguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • a Introduction
  • Fundamentals of language attitudes
  • Main approaches to the study of language attitudes
  • Matched and verbal guise studies : focus on English
  • Matched and verbal guise research in more contexts
  • Attitudes to speech styles and other variables : communication features, speakers, hearers and contexts
  • Communication accommodation theory
  • Language attitudes in professional contexts
  • Societal treatment studies
  • Direct approach
  • Folklinguistics
  • An integrated programme of language attitudes research
  • Conclusion.

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