Immigrants’ attitudes towards varieties of American English

IF 0.8 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS English World-Wide Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI:10.1075/eww.22022.lee
Jeongyi Lee, Keun Huh
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Native speakers of English commonly perceive some social variants of their language to be more prestigious than others. It is less clear, however, whether nonnative English speakers from immigrant communities come to internalize similar language stereotypes. The present study analysed, through a language attitude survey, a total of 40 Korean American college students’ reactions to tape-recorded samples of five socially stratified varieties of English commonly heard in the U.S. Results indicated that Korean American college students perceived a Standard American English (SAE) typical of broadcast English in the U.S. most favourably. Nonstandard varieties (regional and ethnic dialects), especially African American English, were judged as less favourable. SAE and its speaker was associated with positive qualities on rating scales, while nonstandard guises were rated less favourably on the same characteristics. This study provides a greater understanding of how different English varieties are perceived by an immigrant community in the U.S. and invites future studies of English language attitudes in other minority communities.
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移民对美国英语变体的态度
以英语为母语的人通常认为他们语言的某些社会变体比其他语言更有声望。然而,来自移民社区的非英语母语者是否会内化类似的语言刻板印象却不太清楚。本研究通过一项语言态度调查,分析了 40 名韩裔美国大学生对美国常见的五种社会阶层英语变体的录音样本的反应。结果表明,韩裔美国大学生对美国广播英语中典型的标准美式英语(SAE)最有好感。而非标准英语(地区和民族方言),尤其是非裔美国人英语,则被认为不那么受欢迎。在评分量表中,SAE 及其讲演者与积极的品质相关,而非标准的变体在同样的特征上被评为较差。这项研究使人们对美国移民社区如何看待不同的英语变体有了更深入的了解,并为今后研究其他少数民族社区的英语态度提供了参考。
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English World-Wide
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期刊介绍: English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.
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