IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/alk/ijllt0/v2y2019i6id485.html

Language Attitudes: An Overview

Author

Listed:
  • Melanie Satraki

    (Lecturer, Casa College, Nicosia, Cyprus)

Abstract

It was not until 1960 with Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner and Fillebaum that linguists started being scientifically interested in people’s views about a language or a dialect and its associations, which were given the name of language attitudes. The present paper addresses this issue by defining language attitudes and why it is important to study how people feel about a linguistic variety and its associations. Reference is made to the several ways of measuring attitudes proposed at times, along with the criticism that has led linguists to support different movements. The main driving force behind this disagreement is based on the question whether attitudes towards a linguistic code lead people to use or abandon it. This overview constitutes an effort to bring the most important matters around language attitudes together and give an impetus to linguists to engage with this field

Suggested Citation

  • Melanie Satraki, 2019. "Language Attitudes: An Overview," International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development, vol. 2(6), pages 98-113, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:alk:ijllt0:v:2:y:2019:i:6:id:485
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/ijllt/article/view/485
    File Function: Abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/ijllt/article/download/485/441
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:alk:ijllt0:v:2:y:2019:i:6:id:485. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/ijllt .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.