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- Title
Attitudes towards Englishes in India.
- Authors
BERNAISCH, TOBIAS; KOCH, CHRISTOPHER
- Abstract
ABSTRACT With the help of a survey building on 13 bipolar pairs arranged on a six-point semantic differential scale, the present paper studies Indian English speakers' attitudes towards their local variety Indian English contrastively by simultaneously examining their attitudes towards American English, British English and Sri Lankan English. The results show that although Indian speakers of English display a positive attitude towards Indian English, which is most pronounced with the group of young female informants possibly leading an ongoing linguistic change in India, the informants view British English in a more favourable light. In addition, Indian English speakers show the least positive attitude towards Sri Lankan English, which may be an indication of mutual attitudinal demarcation between the two neighbour varieties.
- Subjects
INDIA; ENGLISH language in foreign countries; ENGLISH language -- Variation; INDIANS (Asians); ATTITUDES toward language; SEMANTIC differential scale; GENDER differences in the English language; LINGUISTIC change
- Publication
World Englishes, 2016, Vol 35, Issue 1, p118
- ISSN
0883-2919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/weng.12174