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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Weiner (1988. "On Editing a Usage Guide." In "Words for Robert Burchfield's Sixty-Fifth Birthday," edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171-183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being 'as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Guides, Real Estate
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Kircher, Ruth; Fox, Sue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of attitudes towards Multicultural London English (MLE), the multiethnolect spoken in England's main metropolis. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 800 participants, including MLE speakers as well as non-MLE speakers from a wide variety of different backgrounds. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Ladegaard, Hans J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Describes a Danish language-attitude study, arguing that views presented in the literature often differ from people's private uncensored stereotypes. Surveys of people from four regions in Denmark investigated their attitudes after listening to voices with seven different regional dialects. Results indicated that people assigned social-class…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Danish, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes