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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Linguistic prestige"”.
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Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
My thesis examines the sociolinguistic notion of prestige in the context of sixteenth-century Italy, with reference to the dynamics which arose between Tuscans and non-Tuscan learners over the ownership and nature of the literary variety based on fourteenth-century Florentine that was being …
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Perceptions of Parisian French: From Language Attitudes to Speech Perception
… mental maps that geographically represent linguistic prestige. These maps were shown to be influenced much more by cities' reputations than by perceptions of their residential desirability. Subjects' mental maps of the Parisian region were indicated to be constrained by subjects' age, …
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Attitudes Toward Standard and Non-Standard Dialects in Linguistically Stigmatized and Linguistically Prestigious Regions in the United States and Germany
… thesis investigates how speakers living in linguistically stigmatized and lin-guistically prestigious regions in the United States and Germany view standard and non-standard dialects in their respective countries. Hereby, it is examined in what ways the possession of the standard dialect …
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The Impact of Global English in Xinjiang, China: Linguistic Capital and Identity Negotiation among the Ethnic Minority and Han Chinese Students
… as Uyghur and Kazakh interact and compete for linguistic prestige in different social scenarios. The power relations between the Turkic languages, including the Uyghur language, and Mandarin Chinese is one in which minority languages are surrounded by a dominant state language supported through …