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Peer reviewedMeyerhoff, Miriam; Niedzielski, Nancy – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003
Presents a study showing that New Zealanders have very different attitudes to variants that sociolinguists have lumped together in the past suggests that globalization with localization is an important principle for variationists to take into account. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Globalization, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedJaffe, Alexandra; Walton, Shana – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2000
By combining features of matched guise tests with sociolinguistic interviewing and oral performance, this study investigates the social meanings carried by non-standard orthographies. Participant evaluations of the personas showed that people connected orthography to social identities. Specifically, results found people uncritically and…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Oral Language
Peer reviewedBayard, Donn; Weatherall, Ann; Gallois, Cynthia; Pittam, Jeffery – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2001
Describes a series of evaluations of gender pairs of New Zealand English, Australian English, American English, and received-pronunciation-type-English English voices by over 400 students in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Twenty-two personality and demographic traits were evaluated by Likert-scale questionnaires. Results are…
Descriptors: Demography, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
Peer reviewedLaforest, Marty – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1999
Discusses the centuries-old dispute in Quebec about whether the French spoken there is good or bad. The issue has a stake in public discourse between socially-valued and socially-stigmatized varieties of language. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, French, Higher Education
