Attitudes Towards Language Variation in Tlemcen Speech Community

Dendane Zoubir

Article Details

Attitudes Towards Language Variation in Tlemcen Speech Community

Authors:

Dendane Zoubir

Publisher:

Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal:

Revue Maghrébine des Langues Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.287-326

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2006

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001411906

pISSN:

2600-626X

Keywords:

Attitudes - Language Variation - Tlemcen Speech Community

Abstract:

 This paper intends to look at the relationship between language and society from a social-psychological perspective, a line of exploration that has been of considerable importance to sociolinguistics. Indeed, people‟s attitudes towards a language variety reflect their views about the users of that variety, and the observation of their reactions can help us understand the association between social stereotypes and ways of speaking, as well as the resulting impact on their own linguistic behaviour. Based on an indirect technique of eliciting the attitudes of a number of respondents in the speech community of Tlemcen, our investigation reveals interesting results as to their reactions to the two high status languages, MSA and French, on the one hand, and the two low varieties co-existing in the community, Tlemcen speech and a rural form of Arabic.

Article Details

Attitudes Towards Language Variation in Tlemcen Speech Community

Authors: Dendane Zoubir

Publisher: Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal: Revue Maghrébine des Langues Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.287-326

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2006

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001411906

pISSN: 2600-626X

Attitudes - Language Variation - Tlemcen Speech Community

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Authors:

Dendane Zoubir

Publisher:

Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal:

Revue Maghrébine des Langues Vol.4 Issue 1, pp.287-326

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2006

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001411906

pISSN:

2600-626X