Attitudes to Standard British English and Standard Polish
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Attitudes to Standard British English and Standard Polish

A Study in Normative Linguistics and Comparative Sociolinguistics

  1. 257 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Attitudes to Standard British English and Standard Polish

A Study in Normative Linguistics and Comparative Sociolinguistics

About this book

The book provides a new insight into English-Polish comparative sociolinguistics by comparing and contrasting the attitudes of young adult native speakers of British English and Polish towards the standard varieties of their mother tongues. The author reviews the Anglophone and Polish approaches to standard dialects and language standardization, integrating sociolinguistics, normative linguistics and prescriptivism. The core of the work presents and analyses the results of a questionnaire-based study of language attitudes conducted at several Polish and British universities. In conclusion, the author places the two groups of informants on a spectrum of language attitudes ranging from purism to tolerance of non-standard varieties.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of contents
  3. Tables
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1 Standard English and Standard Polish
  6. Chapter 2 Research objectives
  7. Chapter 3 The survey
  8. Chapter 4 Defining the standard dialect
  9. Chapter 5 The functions of the standard dialect
  10. Chapter 6 Codification and correctness
  11. Chapter 7 Prestige in English and Polish
  12. Chapter 8 Analysis of the results
  13. Chapter 9 Conclusion
  14. References
  15. Appendix 1 Questionnaire for British informants
  16. Appendix 2 Questionnaire for Polish informants