Linguistic beliefs and attitudes of urban speakers in Irati (PR): a look at the other in the discourse
Keywords:
linguistic beliefs and attitudes, linguistic bias, multilingual contexts.Abstract
This article presents partial results of research on linguistic beliefs and attitudes of speakers from Irati, a city in Paraná that presents a complex sociolinguistic scenario. As guidelines for this study, we use theoretical and methodological principles of Sociolinguistics, Sociology of Language and Social Psychology concerning the analysis of linguistic beliefs and attitudes, which consist of subjective assessment of varieties and their speakers. The corpus comes from the
Project Crenças e atitudes linguísticas: um estudo da relação do português com línguas de contato (AGUILERA, 2009). We selected six questions from a questionnaire with 48 questions, which reveal judgments about languages spoken in the town and their speakers.