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Attitudes Toward English Vernaculars.
Straker, Dolores – 1980
This paper focuses on the roles and functions that English based vernaculars play in contemporary society and reviews literature pertinent to that topic. Areas considered include (1) societal behavior toward language, (2) language as a group marker, and (3) the contextual parameters of language use. In the discussion of societal behavior toward…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Diglossia, English, Language Attitudes