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- Title
Caracas, ¿periferia lingüística? Un estudio de actitudes en la ciudad de Mérida.
- Authors
Chinellato, Alessio
- Abstract
This paper deals with attitudes towards two Spanish speech varieties. Particularly, this is a study about how inhabitants from Mérida city appraise the contemporary educated speech from Caracas and the sociolect called habla malandra. An experimental design for two related groups was followed. Ten people participated in the study, and three variables were considered, namely, age (20-30 years old), geographical origin (Mérida city), and level of education (university students). Data were obtained from two short films, each one cointaining the two speech varieties for the same plot. Matched guise technique (Lambert 1967) was used. Informants were asked to appraise the announcer's personality using binary features included in a semantic differential scale. Results show that attitudes of people from Mérida city towards these two speech varieties are similar, while the two dialects under study were poorly and/or negatively appraised in the dimensions of professional competence and socioeconomic status. Thus, a non-prestigious appraisal was given to both dialects by the community of Mérida. However, both of them, especially habla malandra variety, were positively appraised in the scales of personal integrity and social attraction.
- Subjects
SPOKEN Spanish; ROMANCE languages; SPEECH; LANGUAGE &; languages; EDUCATION
- Publication
Revista Lengua y Habla, 2013, Vol 17, p225
- ISSN
2244-811X
- Publication type
Article