Implicit language attitudes among young, white, L1-Afrikaans speakers towards two South African Englishes: The role of gender and family language
This paper reports on an Implicit Association Test (IAT)-based investigation of the language-attitudes of the white (Afrikaans and English) speech-communities of South Africa, with a focus on young, L1-Afrikaans speakers. Drawing from an extensive literature review, two hypotheses were formulated: 1...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repositorio: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/164867 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/164867 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | language attitudes in-group bias family language gender Afrikaans indirect methods Implicit Association Test South African English South Africa 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas |
| Sumario: | This paper reports on an Implicit Association Test (IAT)-based investigation of the language-attitudes of the white (Afrikaans and English) speech-communities of South Africa, with a focus on young, L1-Afrikaans speakers. Drawing from an extensive literature review, two hypotheses were formulated: 1) participants would exhibit out-group bias towards Standard South African English over Afrikaans-accented English; 2) contextually relevant socio-demographic and sociolinguistic factors would explain this bias. Contrary to the first hypothesis, L1-Afrikaans speakers showed an implicit bias towards their in-group accent. Gender and Family Language emerged as significant factors in explaining these results. More specifically, females were found to show significantly more in-group bias than men, while subjects reporting both English and Afrikaans as family languages showed the most in-group bias. Given that the outcomes from this implicit approach provide new insights, further research into the role of gender and language-loyalty within this speech-community through narrative-based elicitation methods is recommended. |
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