Abstract

SALAZAR CARO, AURA. Prestige versus identity: the linguistic attitudes of people from Montería towards Spanish spoken in Montería. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2015, n.25, pp.39-55. ISSN 0121-053X.

This article analyzes aspects such as the degree of identity and loyalty of people from Montería towards their language variety, the dilemma arousing among speakers when dealing with what is believed to be linguistically correct and what is felt as culturally owned, and their attitude towards more prestigious linguistic communities. The study focuses on the emotional component of attitude, as it includes the assessment and evaluation of dialectal variations in the speech community. The data analysis was carried out according to the pre-stratified variables of sex-gender, level of education, and age proposed by PRESEEA (Proyect for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America). Initially, the aforementioned aspects are broadly discussed; then analyzed from those variables which turned out to be the most influential.

Keywords : linguistic attitudes; Spanish spoken in Montería; identity and prestige.

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