Language attitudes are the beliefs, values and expectations that individuals or communities hold towards particular languages or language varieties. These attitudes shape identity, social ...

Across the globe, Creole and English varieties occupy complex sociolinguistic landscapes where speakers’ beliefs and feelings about language shape identity, access to resources and social mobility.

Scientists who study patterns in survey results might be dealing with data on language rather than what they're really after -- attitudes -- according to an international study. Scientists who study ...

Researchers share evidence that people's attitudes are deeply woven into language and culture across the globe and centuries. In a new study, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, ...

An all-island study on attitudes towards the Irish language has recorded strong support for the language with a majority of participants in both jurisdictions saying Irish-medium education should be ...

Teenagers in Wales believe it is important that Welsh remains a living language, but fewer than half believe they will go on to speak it as adults. This is what we found when we surveyed over 800 ...

The concept of assimilation has been debated extensively in the social science of migration since the early 20th Century, but it is now broadly accepted as a way to describe the ways that immigrants ...