Beliefs and attitudes of young granada university students towards the educated varieties of spanish

Authors

  • Antonio Manjón- Cabeza Cruz Universidad de Granada

Abstract

PRECAVES XXI allows you the study of the perceptions and attitudes towards Spanish varieties using the matched guise technique. In this paperwork we analyse the attitudes and beliefs from Spanish philology students in Granada (Spain), focusing on the assessment of their own variety. It is important to point out that it is a collective who, in the future, will be a group wielding the linguistic prestige, so their subjective assessments shall be studied for their future projection. In the case of Granada, the analysis is interesting because this city is placed in an underestimated linguistic variety in the Hispanic world, at least in the European sphere. The historical stigmatization along with the geographic proximity with the standard variety and the modern globalization processes are leading to a process of convergence or assimilation to the standard. This drives the speakers to show contradictory tendencies that reveals the struggle between loyalty to the vernacular variety and the assumption of the state prestige models. This fight always appears mediatised by the recurrent topics: the writing pre-eminence, the rural and traditional character of the Andalusian society, etc

Keywords:

Linguistics beliefs, linguistics attitudes, varieties of Spanish, PRECAVES XXI, Granada, Spain