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Language attitudes and ideologies on linguistic diversity

The examination of language ideologies and attitudes reveals a complex interplay between societal beliefs and individual perceptions regarding linguistic diversity. Language ideology encompasses both descriptive and critical orientations, aiming to understand collective beliefs about language arrangements and to critique sociolinguistic inequalities.

Language attitudes and ideologies
on linguistic diversity

Language attitudes and ideologies on linguistic diversity

A nexus between language ideology and language attitudes

ideologies and attitudes may be incongruent
The genesis of a specific attitude can indeed sometimes be traced to a systematic language ideology.

Language ideology and attitudes in applied linguistics

They regulate linguistic diversity at the macro and micro level
Governments pursue language policies that favour certain languages
Preserving ancient Norse language of the Icelandic Sagas

Language attitudes

both quantitative and qualitative
An evaluation of whether, in what way, and to what extent, a specific language, is favourable.
the use of more than one language in a place where the monolingual assumption reigns are undesirable
psychological tendency to favor or disfavor a particular entity
sexiness of French is favourable, whereas the attractiveness of Russian is dubious

Language ideology

fundamentally qualitative
A critical orientation
criticizing the sociolinguistic world for its inequalities, its injustices, and its systems of domination
A descriptive orientation
how language arrangements ought to be and why the collective feels this way
seeks to research, identify and understand the shared beliefs of some collective