TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard Giles
AU  - Bernadette M. Watson
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Social Meanings of Language, Dialect and Accent
T2  - International Perspectives on Speech Styles
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109208
N2  - This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms.  The essays attend to evaluations of speech styles across nations. No previous work has embraced this comparative perspective globally, but such a volume that situates language and attitude research in the 21st century is long overdue.  The content is culturally diverse and showcases the work of eminent scholars across the globe. Each chapter brings its own theoretical interpretation to this field of study, and the book provides the reader with a plethora of models that extend our understanding of language attitudes.  It is fitting that Cindy Gallois, who has incisively contributed to research on language attitudes over the past 30 years, provides an epilogue on the current state of language attitudes research.
KW  - judgments, nations, theoretical interpretation
LA  - English
ER  -