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Title Responses to language varieties : variability, processes and outcomes / edited by Alexei Prikhodkine, University of Geneva ; Dennis R. Preston, Oklahoma State University.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series IMPACT: Studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; volume 39
Impact, studies in language and society ; 39.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Responses to Language Varieties; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; Part I. Theoretical Backgrounds; Does language regard vary?; 1. Introduction; 2. The cognitive backgrounds of language regard; 2.1 Perception; 2.2 The cycle of production, perception, and regard; 3. Evidence; 4. So what?; 5. Conclusions; References; REACT -- A constructivist theoretic framework for attitudes; 1. Introduction; 2. REACT -- Attitudes as evaluation routines in social practices; 2.1 Relevance: Attitudes are relevance-driven sedimentations in the stock of knowledge
2.2 Evaluation: Attitudes are routinized evaluations of life-world phenomena2.3 Activation: Attitudes demand a high level of cognitive activation; 2.4 Construction: Attitudes are situated (re-)constructions of symbolic meaning; 2.5 Targeting: Attitudes serve specific targeting functions for the life-world-orientation toward goals of action; 3. Consolidation -- a pragmatic constructivist definition of attitude; References; Mixing methods in the study of language attitudes; 1. Introduction; 2. The 'divide'; and how to conquer it; 3. A theoretical basis for MM language attitude research
4. The qual component: Strategic style-shifting in an Austrian TV discussion5. The quan component: Findings from the speaker evaluation experiment; 6. Discussion and conclusion(s); References; Part II. Implicit and/or explicit? When are attitudes "authentic"?; The primary relevance of subconsciously offered attitudes; 1. Introduction; 2. Denmark: Attitudes towards varieties of Danish; 2.1 Official hierarchization of varieties; 2.2 Conscious hierarchization of varieties; 2.3 Subconscious hierarchization of varieties; 2.4 Comparison of the evaluative hierarchizations
3. The Nordic communities: Attitudes towards the influence from English3.1 Official ideology: Purism vs. laissez-faire; 3.2 Conscious attitudes towards English influence; 3.3 Subconscious attitudes towards English influence; 3.4 Comparison of official, conscious, and subconscious attitudes towards the influence from English; 4. Which attitudinal pattern, if any, is likely to be relevant to the understanding of contemporary changes in the relational strength between Danish varieties?
5. Which attitudinal pattern, if any, is likely to be relevant to the understanding of English influence in the Nordic communities?6. Why are language-ideological structures the way they are?; 6.1 Reflections on the 'why' of official language ideology; 6.1.1 The Danish case; 6.1.2 The Nordic case; 6.2 Reflections on the 'why' of consciously offered attitudes; 6.2.1 The Danish case; 6.2.2 The Nordic case; 6.3 Reflections on the 'why' of subconsciously offered attitudes; 6.3.1 The Danish case; 6.3.2 The Nordic case; 7. Concluding remarks; References
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Subject Language and languages -- Variation.
Language and languages -- Variation.
Speech perception.
Speech perception.
Language awareness.
Language awareness.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Prikhodkine, Alexei, editor.
Preston, Dennis Richard, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Responses to language varieties Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027258304 (DLC) 2015029382
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