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Luca Bazzi; Susanne Brouwer; Alice Foucart – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Literature has shown that foreign-accented (FA) speech modulates the degree of irony perceived by native (NA) individuals, but the subsequent consequences it may have on social interaction are unknown. To address this question, we presented Spanish first language (L1) users with written contexts with ironic/literal praises allocated to either a NA…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Spanish Speaking, Figurative Language, Native Speakers
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Carrie, Erin; McKenzie, Robert M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Recent language attitude research has attended to the processes involved in identifying and evaluating spoken language varieties. This article investigates the ability of second-language learners of English in Spain (N = 71) to identify Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GenAm) speech and their perceptions of linguistic variation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Dialects
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Loureiro-Rodriguez, Veronica; Boggess, May M.; Goldsmith, Anne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Adolescents' attitudes towards standard Galician, non-standard Galician and Spanish are examined in this study using a matched-guise test. Results show that adolescents perceive standard and non-standard Galician differently and that different values are attached to the three linguistic varieties investigated. Our findings confirm that certain…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Spanish