"The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections and discussions can bring light to social, cultural, political and educational matters that require an interdisciplinary approach. This volume fills a crucial void in the field of Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics by introducing the latest production in the discipline of attitudes toward Spanish, Spanish sign language, Portuguese, Guarani and Papiamentu around the world, from South America and the Caribbean to the United States, Spain and Japan. The studies presented in this collection--a variety of sociolinguistic scenarios and methodological approaches--will make an important contribution to theoretical discussions on linguistic attitudes, specifically in the domains of language integration through education, language policy, and language maintenance. This book is intended for sociolinguists, social scientists and scholars in the humanities as well as graduate students enrolled in sociolinguistics courses"--.

• New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of language attitudes towards Spanish and Portuguese around the world
  • References
• Part I. Language integration through education
  • Prosody perception meets language attitudes: Vowel lengthening, status judgments, and stereotypes in Argentina
    • Introduction
      • The tonada cordobesa
      • Language attitudes
      • Language attitudes in Argentina
      • Research questions
    • Methodology
      • Speakers
      • Listeners
      • Audio stimuli
      • Test instrument
      • Procedure
      • Analysis
      • Perceived intelligence
      • Perceived occupation
      • Vowel lengthening
      • Dialect identification
    • Results
      • Dialect identification of speaker
      • Perceived speaker competence
      • Occupation
      • Vowel lengthening
      • Research questions
    • Discussion
      • Dialect identification of speaker
      • Perceived speaker competence and integrity
      • The standard dialect of Argentina
    • Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Perceptual attitudes towards Spanish in the Panhandle of West Virginia
    • Introduction
      • Social evaluations of Spanish in the U.S.
      • The sociolinguistic setting of the present study
    • The present study
      • Materials
      • Participants
      • Procedure
      • Analysis
    • Results and discussion
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Appendix A
  • Differing attitudes toward Spanish sign languages in three Galician pre- and primary schools
    • Introduction
    • Attitudes to Spanish sign languages
    • Methodology
      • Sample description
      • Measuring attitudes to visual-spatial languages
    • Results
    • Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
    • Funding Information
  • The role of attitudes in the management of multilingualism in Brazilian schools located in the Brazil-Paraguay border region
    • Introduction
    • Multilingualism management and attitudes
    • Education on the border observatory project
      • Research design
      • The context of the study: The Brazil-Paraguay border region
    • Results and discussion
      • The sociolinguistic environment of schools A and B
      • Multilingualism management practices and the role of attitudes toward speakers and languages
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
• Part II. Language policy
  • Attitudes toward Portuguese in Uruguay in the nineteenth century
    • Presentation
    • Historical and political conditions
    • Studies on language attitudes in Uruguay
    • Methodology
      • Legislative documents
      • Documents found in judicial or government archives
      • Pieces published in the press
      • Literary writings
    • Attitudes toward Portuguese at the time of the Luso-Brazilian occupation
    • Attitudes toward Border Portuguese in Nineteenth Century Uruguay
      • Neutral attitudes
      • Negative attitudes
    • Discussion
    • Synthesis
    • References
  • Patterns of linguistic vitality: Intergenerational transmission in indigenous and immigrant bilingual communities
    • Introduction
    • Additional remarks
    • Language use with different family members in Paraguay
      • Language use according to the ALGR
      • Language use in the interview survey sample (Zajícová, 2009)
      • Language use in questionnaire survey sample (Zajícová, 2009)
    • Communication between parents and children
    • Guarani and Spanish acquisition
    • A pattern that does indicate an imminent shift
    • Conclusions
    • References
    • Funding Information
  • Language use, language attitudes and identity in Curaçao
    • Introduction
    • Ideologies and language attitudes in the Dutch Caribbean
    • Literature overview
    • Research questions and hypotheses
    • Methodology
      • The questionnaire
      • The statistical analysis
    • Results
      • Informants
      • Language use
      • The use of Dutch and Papiamentu
      • Proportion of language use
      • Language attitudes: The importance of Papiamentu
      • Attitudes toward Curaçaoan identity
      • Interaction effects: Parental birthplace, the use of Papiamentu and attitudes regarding language and Curaçaoan identity
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
    • Appendix A. Importance of Papiamentu
    • Appendix B. Attitudes toward Curaçaoan identity
    • Appendix C. Questionnaire
• Part III. Language maintenance
  • Parental language attitudes and language use among Brazilian families in Japan
    • Introduction
    • Background
    • Research questions and methodology
    • Results
      • Demographic information
      • Profiles of the parents
      • Profiles of the children
      • Profiles of the adults other than the parents
      • Parental views about the two languages
      • Language use patterns at home
      • Portuguese use at home and outside the home
      • Relationship between parental language use patterns and child language use at home
    • Discussion
      • Expectations vs. reality
      • Limitations
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Portuguese in Massachusetts: Linguistic attitudes, social networks and language maintenance
    • Introduction
    • Portuguese in Eastern Massachusetts
      • Fall River and New Bedford
    • Literature review
      • The Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory
      • Social networks
    • Methodology
      • Goals and hypotheses
      • Procedure
    • Results and discussion
      • Second-generation Portuguese migrants
    • Conclusions
    • References
  • Spanish-speaking immigrants in Indiana: A quantitative exploration of their attitudes towards Spanish
    • Introduction
      • Language attitudes components
      • Language attitudes and sociodemographic factors
    • Methods
      • Participants
      • Materials
    • Results
      • Gender
      • Age
      • Length of stay in the U.S.
      • Education
    • Discussion and conclusion
    • References
• Part IV. Closing reflections
  • The study of language attitudes: Our foundation, our future
    • Introduction
    • Our foundation
    • Our future
    • References
• Index