Title: Cultural Attitudes Toward Language Variation and Dialects
Abstract: Attitudes toward languages, which serve as surrogates for attitudes toward groups of people, have important real‐world consequences, particularly for speakers of socially stigmatized language varieties, including speakers of non‐standard global varieties of English. This article explores those issues with examples both from stigmatized varieties spoken in US communities and World Englishes. Finally, suggestions are offered for teachers to assist students to overcome some of the negative attitudes associated with language varieties that differ from US and British standard English.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-18
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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