Language Attitude Survey
A direct language attitude survey measures what people think and feel about languages, dialects, and varieties by asking them explicitly. Using questionnaires built from Likert scales, semantic-differential items, and open-ended questions, the direct approach gathers respondents' self-reported evaluations of varieties — their prestige, beauty, usefulness, or appropriateness — and analyses these responses for reliability, underlying structure, and differences between social groups. It is the self-report counterpart to indirect techniques such as the matched-guise test, trading some protection against socially desirable answers for transparency, scale, and ease of administration.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Garrett, P. (2010). Attitudes to Language. Cambridge University Press. · ISBN 9780521759175
- Baker, C. (1992). Attitudes and Language. Multilingual Matters. · ISBN 9781853591419
- Oppenheim, A. N. (1992). Questionnaire Design, Interviewing and Attitude Measurement (New ed.). Pinter. · ISBN 9781855670440
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
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Related methods
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