The primary relevance of subconsciously offered attitudes: Focusing the language ideological aspect of sociolinguistic change

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Abstract

The chapter deals with the role of language-ideological structures in linguistic variation and change at the macro-level of societal life. It argues that we need to construe (conceptualize and operationalize) data collection contexts which allow for a clear distinction between consciously (overtly) and subconsciously (covertly) offered attitudes – because subconsciously offered attitudes appear to be a driving force in linguistic variation and change in a way that consciously offered attitudes are not. The argument is based on evidence from empirical investigations of attitudes and use in the ‘standard vs. non-standard’ dimension in Denmark, and in the ‘national vs. English’ dimension in seven Nordic communities (including the Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finland-Swedish, and Finnish communities).
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelResponses to Language Varieties : Variability, processes and outcomes
RedaktørerAlexei Prikhodkine, Dennis R. Preston
Antal sider30
UdgivelsesstedAmsterdam
ForlagJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Publikationsdato2015
Sider87-116
ISBN (Trykt) 9789027258304
ISBN (Elektronisk)9789027267931
StatusUdgivet - 2015
NavnIMPACT: Studies in Language and Society
Vol/bind39
ISSN1385-7908

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