34.2556, Confs: Language Attitudes and World Englishes: Methods, Insights, and Challenges

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Subject: 34.2556, Confs: Language Attitudes and World Englishes: Methods, Insights, and Challenges

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Date: 24-Aug-2023
From: Giuliana  Regnoli [giuliana.regnoli at unipi.it]
Subject: Language Attitudes and World Englishes: Methods, Insights, and Challenges

Language Attitudes and World Englishes: Methods, Insights, and
Challenges

Date: 26-Sep-2024 - 28-Sep-2024
Location: Alicante, Spain
Contact: Giuliana Regnoli
Contact Email: giuliana.regnoli at unipi.it

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

Full CfP available at https://web.ua.es/es/biclce2024/documentos/regno
li-schmalz-panel-proposal-2.pdf

Research on laypeople’s attitudes has repeatedly shown connections
between attitudes and everyday social interactions (Purschke 2018) as
well as language change (Preston 2010; Coupland 2014; Clayton 2018).
Attitudes can be defined as “disposition[s] to respond favorably or
unfavorably to an object, person, institution, or event” (Ajzen 1988,
4). They are considered to influence behaviour, standing in relation
to other attitudes and other influences, such as the situational
setting and the personal context. They are not innate but acquired,
i.e., they must be established by a group and influenced by societal
as well as group norms – an influence which “often lead[s] people to
say things they do not genuinely believe” (Eagly and Chaiken 1993,
499). The fact that attitudes can be related to certain groups makes
them a valuable instrument to establish groupness. This relationship
implies that “by measuring attitudes it is possible to get to know
about a person’s group membership and social identity” (Beinhoff 2013,
24). Moreover, attitudes provide insight into conscious and
unconscious beliefs and perceptions.
Though World Englishes has long acknowledged the importance of
language attitudes (Schneider 2007), research on attitudes and
perceptions has only started focusing on Outer- and Expanding-circle
varieties rather recently. Moreover, the fact that in today’s
globalised world language contact on various levels of society cannot
be disputed anymore has given rise to include attitudinal research
into the general coda of research since insights gained through this
research may be implemented and applied to, e.g., the educational
sector, language policies, and language planning (Kircher and Fox
2019).
Traditional methods in attitude studies have mainly relied on either
direct or indirect methods to elicit either conscious or unconscious
attitudes towards different varieties (Garrett 2010). Yet, these
studies have often treated varieties as homogeneous entities, thus
disregarding variation (Wilson and Westphal 2021). Research on
lesser-known varieties and/or research employing less familiar methods
is still relatively rare. Map drawing tasks, which are frequently
employed in folk linguistic studies of L1 varieties, are one such
example (see, e.g., Montgomery 2018; Preston 2010). Folk linguistic
work carried out in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad (Stell 2018) and
St. Kitt’s (Schmalz 2023) as well as in Namibia (Stell 2019) and the
Indian diaspora in Germany (Regnoli 2021) are notable exceptions.
Overall, despite the differences in the methods applied to either data
collection or analysis, these studies allowed to capture the perceived
linguistic diversity of the post-colonial, non-post-colonial and
diasporic speech communities under investigation. These and other
studies may open up new research avenues that may help shed new light
on language attitudes in World Englishes.

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