Lenguas Modernas

Beliefs and attitudes from chileans towards their own speech variety

Silvana Guerrero González, Javier González Riffo, Isaac Galassi Oyarzún — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This study, developed within the Project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards Spanish varieties in the XXI century (PRECAVES XXI), shows the main results surrounding beliefs and attitudes that Chileans have towards their own speech variety. Applying the project’s methodology to a stratified sample of 108 participants, it is concluded that Chileans value positively their own variety, and even go as far as to consider it “the best” Spanish. Furthermore, data indicates that Chileans recognize their own variety exactly, even though, in parallel, there is a tendency to confound the Chilean variety with the one from the Canary Islands. On top of that, direct and indirect evaluations show that the participants in our sample have very positive attitudes towards their own speech variety, while it is possible to observe some sociolinguistic variation patterns in relation to sex, age, and the participant’s educational levels.

Beliefs and attitudes from river plate speakers towards the chilean variety

Sofía Gutiérrez Böhmer, Claudia Borzi — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This work is part of the “Project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards varieties of Spanish in the 21st century” (PRECAVES XXI), focusing this time on the evaluation of speakers of Buenos Aires towards the Chilean variety. It follows the same methodology as a previous study carried out on Castilian variety to advance in the comparison of different varieties of Spanish. Only one type of identification is considered, the correct one, and two significance criteria: rating scale for the variety and distance between values. It is noted that the speakers of Buenos Aires clearly identify the Chilean variety and that they assign it a valuation located preferably within the slightly positive zone. The expansion of the sample of interviewees with secondary education allows some sociolinguistic conclusions.

Beliefs and attitudes from antioquians towards the spanish spoken in chile

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This review has the objective to describe the linguistic perceptions and beliefs towards the Spanish spoken in Chile. The research has a stratified sample of 108 informants from Antioquia’s Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley in Colombia. They are distributed into social factors such as sex, age and educational level following the parameters of the Project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards Spanish varieties in the XXI century (PRECAVES XXI). Results from the survey’s data show that in Antioquia there is a good identification of the Spanish spoken in Chile, leaded by the young generation and the university students. Futhermore, antioquian people consider that people in Chile have a well-qualified job position, a medium level income, a high school degree, and that their country and culture seem to be interesting, but unfamiliar and slightly distant.

Beliefs and language attitudes: cubans toward chilean spanish

Ana María González Mafud, Nayara Ortega Someillán, Roxana Sobrino Triana — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This study applies the methodological approach of the Project to the analysis of beliefs and attitudes towards varieties of Spanish in the 21st century (PRECAVES XXI). It offers a summary of the prevailing research that has been conducted on this topic in Cuba and examines the results, which report on the beliefs and attitudes of Cubans towards the Chilean variety of speech. On the one hand, it highlights the need for continued research by means of an interdisciplinary approach and recognizes the importance of paying greater attention to diasporic Cuban communities. On the other, based on a stratified sample of 108 speakers, it concludes that Cubans register a low degree of proximity towards the Chilean variety, which is demonstrated by their recurring confusion between this variety and that of the Canaries; and they hold, in large measure, the pronunciation of latter variety in lower regard. No significant variations are observed according to the sociolinguistic variables of the study. Further, respondents offered positive evaluations towards Chileans, focused especially on affective characteristics such as friendliness, professionalism, kindness and education.

Beliefs and attitudes of speakers from madrid towards the chilean linguistic variety

Ana M. Cestero Mancera, Florentino Paredes García — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This investigation, developed in the framework of the Proyecto para el estudio de las creencias y actitudes hacia las variedades del español en el siglo XXI (PRECAVES XXI), sets forth the main results on the beliefs and attitudes of the speakers of Madrid towards the Chilean linguistic variety. The methodology from the project was applied to a stratified sample made up of 144 speakers of the Community of Madrid (Spain) and concluded that speakers of this community identify the Chilean accent with difficulty, and that they feel that the variety from Chile is quite distant with respect to their own variety of language. However, the beliefs and attitudes toward the Chilean variety are not negative and, in relation to certain aspects, it is considered better than even their own variety. Social factors do not seem to have effect neither over the recognition nor the assessment of the variety, even if the Chilean accent is better recognized in free spoken speech than in the written language, and in masculine voices than in feminine ones.

Beliefs and attitudes of sevillians towards the chilean linguistic variety

Juana Santana Marrero — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Following the methodology of the Project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards the varieties of Spanish in the 21st century (PRECAVES XXI), the perception that Sevillians, speakers of the Andalusian variety, have of the Chilean dialect was analysed in this research. The results obtained from the survey of 108 subjects, distributed according to sex, age and educational level, showed that: 1) the Chilean variety was not included among the models of linguistic prestige contemplated by the respondents; 2) the degree of identification of this geolectal modality was low and it was often confused with the other Spanish-American varieties; 3) the direct and indirect valuations yielded rather positive beliefs and attitudes; and 4) sometimes, the social features of the respondents conditioned their opinions.

Beliefs and attitudes of canarians towards the chilean linguistic variety

Marta Samper Hernández — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the beliefs and attitudes of 108 Canarian speakers towards the Chilean linguistic variety. The research is framed in the second phase of the Project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards Spanish varieties in the XXI century (PRECAVES XXI), with a uniform stratification of the sample in the variables gender, age and educational level. The results show a scarce recognition of the Chilean variety, as well as a tendency to confuse it with their own. The Canarians also show a high esteem for Chilean speech, both in the direct valuation of the voices and in the indirect valuation through the characteristics of the speakers, the country and the culture. There is, however, a greater valuation of qualities related to human and affective dimensions, as opposed to those linked to status and social advancement. Women, university educated people and secondgeneration speakers exhibit generally higher evaluations of the Chilean variety.

Beliefs and attitudes of barcelonians towards chilean variety

Cristina Illamola, Mar Forment Fernández — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This study presents the main results on beliefs and attitudes of a stratified sample of 144 informants from Barcelona towards the Chilean variety. Based on the methodology of the Project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards Spanish varieties in the XXI century (PRECAVES XXI), the results review whether the existence of a “better Spanish” is still valid. Then, it examines the degree of identification of the different varieties of Spanish by participants from Barcelona and, finally, a set of questions, grouped into direct evaluations (cognitive and affective) and indirect evaluations (sociocultural features of the speaker, the country and its culture), are examined to observe attitudes and beliefs towards the Chilean variety. In general, the ratings are positive and, for social factors (gender, age, level of education and L1) and extralinguistic factors (male or female voice) that may explain the differences between groups, the participant’s L1 (Spanish or Catalan), as well as the voice heard (a male or a female voice) should be noted.

Beliefs and attitudes from majorcan people towards the chilean speech variety

Beatriz Méndez Guerrero, Laura Camargo Fernández — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This study, developed within the Project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards Spanish varieties in the 21st century (PRECAVES XXI), shows the main results surrounding beliefs and attitudes that Majorcan people have towards the Chilean speech variety. Applying the project’s methodology to a stratified sample of 108 participants, it is concluded that the exact recognition of the variety is very low and that it is mostly confused with the Argentinian one. On the other hand, the measurement of the direct and indirect evaluations reveals that the informants show very positive attitudes towards the Chilean variety, showing even higher scores than when they evaluate their own dialect. Some patterns of sociolinguistic variation of interest are also observed in relation to the factors of sex, age and level of education. Due to its novelty in the work carried out to date in the framework of PRECAVES XXI, and also in the investigation of linguistic attitudes in general, it stands out that female voices are clearly better valued at all levels than male voices.

Creencias y actitudes de los hablantes de español hacia la variedad chilena: estudio coordinado del PRECAVES XXI

Silvana Guerrero González, Javier González Riffo — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Las creencias y actitudes que puedan tener los hablantes y sus comunidades de habla con respecto a un hecho lingüístico (uso o desuso de una variante, de una variedad o de una lengua) constituyen, de acuerdo con López Morales (1989) y Moreno Fernández (2005), la causa última de la variación lingüística y sociolingüística. Estas creencias se originan en la propia conciencia sociolingüística de los hablantes, así como también son el resultado de consideraciones afectivas propias y de la comunidad de habla de la que son parte (López Morales, 1989).

Profesores de inglés colombianos, su uso de libros de texto y apropiación de sugerencias en política educativa

John Jairo Viáfara González, Natalia Cardozo Durán, Lorena Lucía Lozano Bahamón — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

El diseño e implementación de políticas, programas y currículos para la enseñanza de inglés se ha convertido en una prioridad de varios países Latinoamericanos. Este estudio cualitativo se enfoca en el caso particular de Colombia y dos libros de textos, English Please! y Way to Go!, los que fueron publicados por el Ministerio de Educación para mejorar el aprendizaje de inglés en colegios públicos. El estudio explora qué tanto un grupo de profesores se apropió de las sugerencias de la política “Colombia Bilingüe” para la educación en el idioma inglés al emplear estos textos. Utilizando observaciones de clase, cuestionarios y entrevistas, se determinó que, si bien los participantes se apropiaron del énfasis en la transversalidad curricular y la conexión que los libros promueven con los lineamientos curriculares gubernamentales, tuvieron dificultades para apoyar las oportunidades laborales y de empleo de sus estudiantes a través de los textos. Una apropiación parcial de las sugerencias de la política involucró el fomento del aprendizaje cultural e intercultural de los estudiantes, su desarrollo de habilidades comunicativas para el siglo 21 y transferibles.

Educational innovation in higher education: text and multimedia for teaching english with local and professional relevance

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Learning a foreign language involves challenges in higher education, especially in those disciplinary areas where English is not the disciplinary focus of study programs, due to the lack of instructional material that is relevant to a university’s various areas of knowledge and its local context. The purpose of this article is to share the process of creating an editorial project on a text and website to teach English with a disciplinary approach to undergraduate students who belong to an institutional English program at a regional university in northern Chile. Drawing on English for specific purposes, the article describes the processes of diagnosis, design and validation of this material by stages and the suggestions for language teachers and instructors. The article concludes by stating some benefits of this type of teaching material for the learning of English of college students.

Conceptual metaphors of the 18/O social outbreak in editorials of the Diario El Sur and Diario Concepción

Amanda Valenzuela-Valenzuela, Ricardo Cartes-Velásquez — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of this paper is to analyze metaphors about the social outbreak in editorials, from Diario El Sur and Diario Concepción, two of Concepción’s local newspapers. The corpus was composed of 23 editorials from these newspapers. Metaphor identification was done through Discourse Dynamics Approach to Metaphor. A total of 653 metaphors was found, which was then grouped, resulting in a total sum of 268 metaphors for the analysis. In this research, the editorial perspective about the social outbreak of two local newspapers was studied through metaphor. In both media outlets, similar metaphor vehicles were used. While Diario El Sur prioritizes the need for normalization, Diario Concepción legitimates the demonstrations as an expression of social discontent.

Error etiology of grammatical collocations in anglophone learners of spanish as a foreign language

René Oportus Torres, Anita Ferreira Cabrera — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This anglophone learners’ corpus study in Spanish as a foreign language aimed at analysing error etiology in the use of grammatical collocations verb + preposition in proficiency levels A2 and B1. A collocational error taxonomy was used to determine the source (intralingual and interlingual) of the cognitive mechanisms leading to the error by contrasting English-Spanish collocational equivalents. The findings show a greater number of interlingual errors in both levels, which include collocative false selection or omission of the collocative, and collocational addition errors. Nevertheless, overgeneralization error frequency in level B1 surpasses level A2 in intralingual mechanisms. This would reveal greater impact of L2 (Spanish) distinctions as error cause in B1 level. This study contributes to research on the acquisition of intermediate fixedness phraseological units, particularly, to the explanatory aspects of grammatical collocation errors in anglophone learners of Spanish as a foreign language.

Juana Santana Marrero y Antonio Manjón-Cabeza Cruz (Coords.) Sección Monográfica. Percepción del andaluz: creencias y actitudes de jóvenes hispanohablantes y estudiantes de ELE. 2021, Philologia Hispalensis 35/1. ISSN 1132-0265.

Pablo Muñoz Jara — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Percepción del andaluz: creencias y actitudes de jóvenes hispanohablantes y estudiantes de ELE es una sección monográfica coordinada por Juana Santana Marreo y Antonio Manjón-Cabeza Cruz, publicada el año 2021 en la Revista de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios Philologia Hispalensis. Dicha sección aborda, desde una perspectiva sociolingüística y a través de nueve investigaciones, las actitudes y creencias de jóvenes universitarios hispanohablantes sobre el andaluz en el marco del Proyecto para el Estudio de las Creencias y Actitudes hacia las Variedades del Español del Siglo XXI (PRECAVES XXI).

Cestero, Ana María y Florentino Paredes (Eds.) La percepción de la variedad castellana. Creencias y actitudes lingüísticas en el siglo XXI. Editorial de la Universidad de Alcalá, 2022, 534 páginas, ISBN 978-84-18979-96-5

Valentina Espinoza Díaz — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Los editores Ana María Cestero y Florentino Paredes presentan en este monográfico publicado por la Universidad de Alcalá una recopilación de artículos enfocados en el estudio de las actitudes lingüísticas en hispanohablantes. Concretamente, el objetivo de este compendio es conocer las percepciones que hablantes de diferentes variedades del español tienen sobre el castellano.

Wendy Ayres-Bennett & Helena Sanson (Eds.). Women in the History of Linguistics. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 648 páginas ISBN: 978–0–19–875495–4

Soledad Chávez Fajardo — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Women in the History of Linguistics, volumen coordinado por Wendy Ayres-Bennett y Helena Sanson (University of Cambridge), se ha centrado en investigar el papel histórico desempeñado por las mujeres en el campo de la lingüística en algunas zonas del mundo. Fuera de una notable introducción en donde se establece la epistemología subyacente del texto (abrir la investigación a espacios domésticos y no institucionalizados), el libro presenta diecinueve capítulos. Si bien el volumen superó el panorama eurocéntrica y occidentalizante (destaco en ello los estudios de tradiciones como India, el mundo árabe y China, entre otras), el volumen no incluyó el aporte de las mujeres en las lenguas aborígenes habladas en Hispanoamérica, tampoco las variedades de español y portugués americano.