Attitudes & Languages

By: Colin Baker

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Paperback | 1 June 1992

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The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original research shows how attitude to bilingualism is conceptually distinct from attitude to a specific language. A piece of research in Wales investigates the origins of language attitudes in individual differences and in environmental attributes.

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Non-Fiction Psychology Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Bilingualism & Multilingualism Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Education Teaching of Specific Groups with Special Educational Needs Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics

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Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction	p. 1
Plan of the Book	p. 4
Attitudes and Language: Foundational Issues
The Importance of Attitudes	p. 9
The Nature of an Attitude	p. 10
Attitude as Input and Output	p. 12
The Three Components of Attitude	p. 12
Attitude and Related Terms	p. 13
Attitudes and Behaviour	p. 15
The Measurement of Attitudes	p. 17
The Origin of Language Attitudes
Evolving a Systems Model of Language Attitudes	p. 23
Problems and Issues	p. 27
The Nature of Language Attitudes	p. 29
Instrumental and Integrative Attitudes	p. 31
Research into Integrative and Instrumental Attitudes	p. 33
Further Directions in Research	p. 35
Gardner's Socio-Educational Model	p. 38
Research into the Determinants of Language Attitudes	p. 41
Attitudes and Language: A Research Perspective
Choice of Variables	p. 49
The Measurement of the Variables	p. 51
The Passage of the Research	p. 55
Scaling	p. 55
Reliabilities	p. 59
Initial Explorations	p. 59
The Model	p. 68
Attitudes to Bilingualism
The Characterisation of Attitude to Bilingualism	p. 79
The Development of an Attitude to Bilingualism Scale	p. 81
The Uniqueness of Attitude to Bilingualism	p. 84
The Utility of Attitude to Bilingualism	p. 88
A Model of Attitude to Bilingualism	p. 92
Language and Attitude Change
Historical Perspective	p. 97
Theories of Attitude Change	p. 99
Age Changes	p. 106
Dramatic Experiences	p. 106
Community Effects	p. 107
Parental Effects	p. 109
Peer Group Effects	p. 109
Institutional Effects	p. 110
Mass Media Effects	p. 110
Rituals	p. 111
Situational Effects	p. 111
Language and Attitude Change: A Research Perspective
Introduction and Aims	p. 114
Background	p. 115
Issue One	p. 117
Issue Two	p. 120
Issue Three	p. 124
Issue Four	p. 126
Postscript: Perspectives and Prospects	p. 133
Appendix 1: The Research Instruments	p. 138
Appendix 2: Technical Details of the Research	p. 152
References	p. 164
Index	p. 171
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