دورية أكاديمية
Brazilian attitudes toward English: dimensions of status and solidarity.
| العنوان: | Brazilian attitudes toward English: dimensions of status and solidarity. |
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| المؤلفون: | El-Dash, Linda Gentry, Busnardo, JoAnne |
| المصدر: | International Journal of Applied Linguistics; Jun2001, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p57, 18p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | ENGLISH language, LANGUAGE & languages, APPLIED linguistics |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: | BRAZIL |
| مستخلص: | The implications of the prestige and vitality of English as a foreign language in Brazil were investigated using both direct and indirect measures of attitudes and beliefs (a subjective vitality questionnaire and a classic matched-guise instrument). Aspects of solidarity and status identified by factor analysis were investigated in a Brazilian adolescent population, and four statistically distinctive profiles were found. Approximately half of the subjects evaluated English-speaking guises more favorably than those of the native Portuguese in terms of status, which is typical of the adult population, who tend to feel the prestige of English as an international language, but half also valued this guise in terms of solidarity, a totally unexpected result which was attributed to the symbolic use of English within the adolescent peer group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: | Complementary Index |
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