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Negative attitudes of the in-group and out-group in Chipilo, Mexico

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The following paper focuses on the attitudes of the in-group (referred to as bilingual Veneto-Spanish speakers) and out-group (monolingual Spanish speakers) in the bilingual community of Chipilo, Mexico. This paper has two main goals: first, to analyse the attitudes of the out-group towards the in-group; and second, to analyse the perceived attitudes of the latter group, who become the primary ‘determinants’ in minority language maintenance. Through 108 sociolinguistic questionnaires and 15 interviews, the following social factors were examined: ethnicity, gender, level of education, and age of the speakers. The results showed negative attitudes perceived by the in-group, especially younger males of higher education levels, as well as possible tensions between the two groups.

Keywords: language maintenance, Chipilo, Mexico
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
    • 2.1The community of Chipilo
    • 2.2Attitudes towards minority groups
    • 2.3Attitudes towards the identity
  • 3.Methodology
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Methods and tasks
      • 3.2.1Sociolinguistic questionnaire
      • 3.2.2Interviews
    • 3.3Data analysis
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Attitudes of Mexicans towards Chipileños and the perceived attitudes of Chipileños
    • 4.2Discrimination
  • 5.Discussion
    • 5.1Attitudes towards Chipileños
    • 5.2Possible discrimination in Chipilo
  • 6.Conclusions and future work
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 27 February 2019
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