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Language Attitude

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Language attitude refers to an individual's or group's evaluative beliefs, feelings, and predispositions toward a language, language variety, accent, or its speakers [1][2]. These attitudes may involve judgments about linguistic prestige, social status, solidarity, identity, and perceived appropriateness, and may influence language choice, communication, and responses to different speech forms [1][2]. In sociolinguistics, language attitudes are examined in relation to social categorization, language variation, and the ways linguistic features acquire social meanings within particular communities and contexts.

Language attitudes Sociolinguistics Language ideology Linguistic prejudice
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  1. Peter Garrett. Attitudes to Language; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2010. [CrossRef]
  2. Christina Bratt Paulston; ATTITUDES AND LANGUAGE. Colin Baker. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual matters, 1992. Pp. x + 173.. Stud. Second Lang. Acquis. 1993, 15, 403-404. [CrossRef]
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