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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Native Speakers' Attitudes toward Regional Varieties of Arabic

Wilk, Emilie 01 January 2017 (has links)
This thesis investigates attitudes toward different regional varieties of Arabic and how native speakers perceive their own dialect vis-à-vis others. Building from previous research in the field, this study specifically seeks to learn which dialects are preferred, which are seen as being nearest to Standard Arabic (fuṣḥā), and whether there is a correlation between masculinity and fuṣḥā. The results of a two-part sociolinguistic questionnaire, distributed to 44 participants, suggest that many native Arabic speakers have overall positive attitudes about their own dialects, though this is often complicated by factors of prestige and gender. When asked directly which dialect they believed to be most similar to fuṣḥā, many participants list Arabian Peninsula varieties, yet when asked more indirectly the majority of participants indicate their own dialect is nearest to fuṣḥā. Finally, the proposed relationship between masculinity and fuṣḥā, suggested but never substantiated by earlier studies, proves to be epiphenomenal here.
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DECONSTRUCTING THE OREO: AN EXAMINATION OF LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN A WHITE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

Houston, Afrika Nsimba 01 August 2011 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis is to elucidate the effects of language ideologies on African-American students' feelings of acceptance and identity in the classroom. For African-American students, the use of African American English is valued for its cultural inclusivity yet is shunned for its lack of linguistic capital in educational settings. This creates an antimony which furthers alienates the home dialect, often African-American English (AAE) from the dominant code, Standard American English (SAE). For this study, 18 African-American students, ages 12-13 were interviewed. Respondents were given a mixed response questionnaire administered in an interview format. The responses were then analyzed using basic statistical analysis. Statistical Power to detect effects was very limited due to small sample size. The results suggest that students valued the use of African American English for personal and home settings but did not find it appropriate for use in school when addressing the teacher. Implications suggest that educators should be ardent about developing an ethno-linguistic culture in the classroom. Teachers and administrators should work to affirm students' home language, where language learning begins, and use this linguistic knowledge in order to propel students forward academically.
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Language Attitudes and Linguistic Profiling among Micro-Enterprisers in Mexico

Brewer, Rebecca Ann 16 December 2013 (has links)
This study examines the language attitudes of entrepreneurial students enrolled in the Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE) in Mexico City toward six rural and urban varieties of Mexican Spanish to consider whether their attitudes towards these varieties influence their decisions about hiring. A verbal guise test and focus groups were used to determine the current attitudes held by 98 ACE students towards the popular and upper-class dialects of Mexico City; the urban dialect of Mérida, Yucatan; the urban dialect of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; the urban dialect of Monterrey, Nuevo León; and the rural dialect of San Jeronimito, Guerrero. It was determined that the ACE students, who are current and future entrepreneurs and employers, do engage in “linguistic profiling” (Purnell et al., 1999), preferring the northern varieties of Spanish and the variety spoken by the upper class of Mexico City in all three dimensions of attractiveness, status, and hireability. These results indicate that speakers of the popular variety of Mexico City and the southern varieties of Yucatán and Guerrero are less likely to be hired. In addition, the students’ ratings of hireability were also influenced by the students’ age, gender, business owner status, and exposure to the dialect in question. The students’ level of income was found to be the most likely to influence the ratings of speaker attractiveness and status. This case study of current and future employers enrolled at ACE responds to a call for the application of language attitudes research (Edwards, 1982; Garrett, 2010) and provides a model for working with an organization. Based on these findings, it was determined that ACE should modify its curriculum to include explicit training regarding linguistic attitudes and hiring practices.
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Kiswahili in the language ecology of Gulu, Northern Uganda

Lorenz, Steffen 15 June 2020 (has links)
The promotion of Kiswahili is one of the main goals of the policies of the East African Community. However, only a limited amount of research has been conducted on the perception and application of the language outside of the traditionally Kiswahili-speaking countries of Tanzania and Kenya. Especially in Uganda, the third largest country of the region, there is a lack of understanding for the role of the language in public communication. This article presents data on the use of Kiswahili in everyday communication and discusses the language attitudes and language ideologies of the people in Northern Uganda’s largest city. It shows that, despite generally positive attitudes towards the language, there is little to no use for it in public communication. The results of the study, combined with perceived negative attitudes from other parts of the country towards the implemented policies, question the effectiveness of the proposed measures for promoting Kiswahili within the present parameters of the specific context’s language ecologies, as well as the country in general.
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University of Toledo Students' Reaction to African American Vernacular Features: Do Phonological Features Matter?

Calhoun, Mackenzie Shanae January 2011 (has links)
No description available.
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Language attitudes in England and Austria : comparing reactions towards high and low prestige varieties in Manchester and Vienna

Bellamy, John Paul January 2011 (has links)
This thesis presents results obtained during 2007/08 in the course of doctoral research into attitudes towards linguistic variation in England and Austria and is based in part on a study by Lees (2000). In this project attitudes amongst British and Austrian informants towards low-prestige ('dialect') and high-prestige varieties are investigated on the basis of assumptions made about speakers of these varieties. The data are collected by means of the 'matched-guise technique', whereby informants listen to a number of recordings of low and high-prestige varieties and note their reactions on the basis of a selection of traits using a semantic differential. In this way the research aims to ascertain whether a pattern emerges, where the informants' perception of the guises is influenced by the prestige of the spoken variety. The results in England and in Austria are compared in order to determine similarities and differences in language attitudes towards low and high-prestige varieties in the two countries. Some results presented here correspond to certain social expectations, with high-prestige speakers being associated with better-paid employment and a better education. Other results, though, are less predictable, as where, for example, the female informants in England and in Austria judge the speakers more positively than the male informants, regardless of the prestige of the speaker's variety. In any case, there is evidence from both countries of the informants' evaluations of the speaker being influenced by their associations of the speaker's variety with that speaker's social status. The data also indicate that the social status of speakers in England is judged to a greater extent on the basis of their spoken variety than is the case in Austria, where speakers are more used to switching freely between points on the standard-dialect continuum and are consequently less judgemental in their perception of a speaker based purely on the evidence of their spoken variety.
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Language attitudes and opportunities for speaking a minority language: what lies ahead for Ozelonacaxtla Totonac?

McGraw, Rachel 11 1900 (has links)
The present research describes the sociolinguistic situation in the minority indigenous community of San Juan Ozelonacaxtla in the state of Puebla, Mexico. Both Ozelonacaxtla Totonac and Spanish are spoken in the speech community. However, some bilingual parents use only Spanish in the home, ceasing the transmission of their native language to their children and placing the community in the early stages of language shift. Spanish is seen as the language of opportunity in the context of recent and significant social, political, educational, and economic changes in San Juan Ozelonacaxtla. Parents claim they teach their children Spanish because it is more useful than Ozelonacaxtla Totonac, it enables their children to avoid discrimination associated with speaking an indigenous language, it is necessary for their children to do well in school, and it allows for more economic mobility. These factors are accelerating the integration of the community into majority Mexican society. / Applied Linguistics
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Suvalkiečių kalbinės nuostatos / Sudovians' attitudes to language

Dagilytė, Eglė 26 June 2012 (has links)
Lietuvoje vis dar trūksta sociolingvistinių tyrimų, kuriuose būtų analizuojamos ne atskiros kalbos atmainos (pavyzdžiui, tarmės, bendrinė kalba), o gyventojų požiūris į savo ir kitų kalbą. Darbe aptariamos suvalkiečių kalbinės nuostatos tarmės ir bendrinės kalbos atžvilgiu. Siekiant išsamiai išsiaiškinti respondentų požiūrį buvo keliami šie uždaviniai: išanalizuoti, kaip tyrimo dalyviai identifikuoja save; aprašyti, kokį kalbos variantą respondentai renkasi kasdieniame bendravime; nustatyti, kas ir kur, tyrimo dalyvių nuomone, vartoja tarmę (kartų kalba, tarmės paplitimas regione); išanalizuoti respondentų požiūrį į savą ir kitas tarmes; aptarti tyrimo dalyvių nuomonę apie tarmių ir bendrinės kalbos santykį. Tyrime pusiau struktūruoto interviu metodu apklaustas 21 suvalkietis (bendra interviu trukmė – daugiau kaip 10 val.). Tiriamieji suskirstyti dvi grupes: 1) suvalkiečiai, gyvenantys Suvalkijoje, ir 2) suvalkiečiai, gyvenantys Kaune. Pirmoji respondentų grupė pasirinkta kaip pagrindinė, o jos tiriamieji dar skirstomi pagal amžių, lytį ir įgytą išsilavinimą. Tyrimo duomenys parodė, kad visi respondentai jaučiasi esą lietuviai, tačiau skirtingai vertina tokius tautybę lemiančius veiksnius, kaip: gimimo, gyvenamoji vieta, tėvų tautybė, lietuvių kalba ar kultūra. Nepriklausomai nuo amžiaus, lyties ar išsilavinimo daugelis tyrimo dalyvių teigia esantys suvalkiečiai, tačiau savo etninę tapatybę sieja labiau su gimimo vieta, o ne su tarme. Daugelis suvalkiečių teigia mokantys... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Lithuania is still lacking of sociolinguistic studies on Lithuanian dialects and attitudes towards their own and other languages. This study is one of the first attempts to investigate people living in Suvalkija region attitudes toward their dialect and standard language. In order to find out respondents’ attitudes, we raise the following tasks: 1) to analyze how the study participants identify themselves; 2) to describe which language code respondents choose in everyday’s communication; 3) to determine who and where use Sudovian dialect; 4) to analyze respondents’ attitudes about their own and other dialects; 5) to discuss participants’ views on dialects and standard language. Using a semi-structured interview method, 21 Sudovians were interviewed (the total duration of the interview – almost 10 hours). Respondents were divided in two groups: 1) Sudovians who live in Sudovia, 2) Sudovians who live in Kaunas. The first respondents’ group was chosen as a basic group and these Sudovians were divided into three groups by age, sex and attained education. The research showed that all respondent feel like Lithuanians, but all highlight different ethnicity factors, such as: birth place, living place, parents’ nationality, native language and culture. Despite of age, sex and education many respondents claim to be Sudovian, but it is more related to place of birth, rather than the dialect. Many Sudovians say they can speak Sudovian, but the dialect usage does not always coincide... [to full text]
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Language attitudes and opportunities for speaking a minority language: what lies ahead for Ozelonacaxtla Totonac?

McGraw, Rachel Unknown Date
No description available.
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The use of frameworks in teaching tense /

Haccius, Mark January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.T.) -- School for International Training, 2007. / Advisor -- Bonnie Mennell Includes bibliographical references (leaf 49).

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