Language with an Attitude

Abstract

The study of language attitudes focuses on the linguistic clues that both guide a hearer to a speaker's group membership and trigger the hearer's beliefs about the group. Classic work in the social psychology of language elaborates on the substructure of such belief through various techniques. It is also clear, however, that language has a life of its own and that our folk beliefs about various aspects of language also play an important role in understanding the foundations for language attitudes. In addition, although stereotypes are strong in attitudinal responses, they must be interpreted through the template of folk theories of language as well as of groups. The results of both folk and attitudinal studies are tied here to a more linguistically oriented interpretation, one which tries to develop a connection among performance, attitudes, perceptions, acquisition, and variation.

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