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- Title
Subjective ethnolinguistic vitality: a comparison of two measures.
- Authors
Allard, Réal; Landry, Rodrigue
- Abstract
This article compares the Subjective Ethnolinguistic Vitality (SEV) Questionnaire and Beliefs on Ethnolinguistic Vitality Questionnaire (BEVQ) in several significant respects. In the first part of this article, the conceptual frameworks that contributed to the development of the two questionnaires will be contrasted. The second part of the article will present an empirical study in which these two measures of SEV are compared in order to determine the relationships that exists between them, and to compare the degree to which each succeeds in predicting language behavior. The original version of the SVQ consists of a total 22 questions, 21 of which are subdivided into two parts in order to allow the respondents to provide their perception of the standing of each ethnolinguistic group on a given variable. Nineteen questions are specifically formulated in terms of the 19 variables identified in the Howard Giles et al taxonomy. Two main versions of the BEVQ have been used for research purposes. The first consisted of four scales based on the general, normative, personal, and goal belief types defined by Kreitler and Kreitler in 1976 and 1982. A second version of the BEVQ consists of eight scales consisting of 12 items each for a total of 96 items. Each 12-item BEVQ scale is so structured that the respondent answers three items on each of the demographic, economic, cultural, and political EV capitals.
- Subjects
ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics; LANGUAGE &; culture; LINGUISTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; LANGUAGE &; languages; SCALING (Social sciences)
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1994, Vol 1994, Issue 108, p117
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article