Baker 1992

Baker, Colin. 1992.Attitudes and language. Multilingual Matters 83. Clevendon, Avon, England: Multilingual Matters. 173 pages. 1853591432 (hard cover); 1853591424 (paperback). Location: Dallas SIL Library 404.2 B167. Interest level: specialist.

Has the following six aims:

• Establishes the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages.
• Two chapters ensure that language attitude theory and research is informed by the strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology.
• Demonstrates the considerable relevance of attitude change theory to language restoration and decay.
• Illustrates how language attitude research can use recent developments in attitude measurement and model building to increase understanding of language attitudes.
• Original piece of research establishes at a conceptual and operational level, the attitude to bilingualism as distinct from attitude to a language.
• Examines the origins of attitude to a language and attitude to bilingualism in terms of individual and contextual variables. Focuses on factors that create positive and negative language attitudes. Also focuses on factors that make such attitudes become more and less favorable over the crucial teenage years (back cover).

• Bibliography module: Baker 1992
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): B
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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