This seminar explores language attitudes – the beliefs and evaluations people hold about languages and their varieties – through a practical, hands-on approach. Students will examine a range of methodologies and methods to elicit and analyze these attitudes, including surveys and questionnaires, interviews, societal treatment studies, and verbal-guise tests. By experimenting with both direct and indirect techniques, students gain first-hand experience in designing and conducting small-scale empirical studies. This practical focus culminates in a term paper that combines analysis with a real-world data collection project, providing insight into how language attitudes shape individuals’ and communities’ perceptions.

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