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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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Bijvoet, Ellen; Fraurud, Kari – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This article makes a case for studying the perceptions that young people have of the ways of speaking of both themselves and others on the supposition that constructions of ambient sociolinguistic variation have an impact on the language development and use of individual language users. Such a study is particularly relevant in multilingual…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Young Adults, Language Variation