Dennis R. Preston | Oklahoma State University & Michigan State University (Emeritus)
This paper outlines a cognitive map for variation in language attitudes, metalinguistic beliefs about language, and language ideological frameworks — grouped together as “language regard.” After establishing input, processing, and response models, it goes on to examine experimental findings that show variability in regard that are consistent with this map and to outline the importance of that variability to more general concerns of sociolinguistics, touching in particular on its explanatory position in studies of variation and change.
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2020. Attitudes Toward Multilingualism in Luxembourg. A Comparative Analysis of Online News Comments and Crowdsourced Questionnaire Data. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 3
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2019. Implicitness and experimental methods in language variation research. Linguistics Vanguard 5:s1
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2018. Measuring language attitudes using the Personalized Implicit Association Test: A case study on regional varieties of Dutch in Belgium. Journal of Linguistic Geography 6:1 ► pp. 20 ff.
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