Showing papers by "Howard Giles published in 1982"
TL;DR: In this paper, a recent social psychological approach to language and ethnicity which attends to the issue: who in an ethnic group uses what language variety, when and why, is presented.
Abstract: In this paper, we shall outline a recent social psychological approach to language and ethnicity which attends to the issue: who in an ethnic group uses what language variety, when and why? More specifically, it allows us to understand the processes underlying group members’ desires to attenuate and even create their own distinctive ethnolinguistic varieties (Giles, Bourhis & Taylor, 1977; Giles & Johnson, 1981). It is suggested that this framework is likely to advance our knowledge of factors influencing successful acquisition of a second language. Two current social psychological models of second language acquisition in inter‐ethnic contexts (Gardner, 1979; Clement, 1980a; 1980b) are then compared and evaluated critically. Whilst these models exhibit significant theoretical advances in the area, it is argued that they nonetheless possess certain deficiencies. Prime amongst these concerns is their failure to take into account explicitly processes (such as ethnic identification) which are accorde...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present theoretical models of how language acts as a dependent variable of people's subjective construals of situations, and as an independent variable creatively defining and redefining situations for those involved.
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01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: AIMS as mentioned in this paper is a method used to study speech in interpersonal evaluation, including actual speech rate and pronunciation feature among manipulations, and perceived speech rate/pronounation feature among measures.
Abstract: AIMS. This exercise demonstrates a method used to study speech in interpersonal evaluation. Actual speech rate and pronunciation feature among manipulations, and perceived speech rate and pronunciation feature among measures. Several points of methodology are introduced to students, besides research areas concerned with language, attitudes and person-perception, and potential applications in education and business.
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TL;DR: This article examined the values of three groups of British adolescents by means of the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS), viz., bilingual Welsh, English only speaking Welsh, and Englishonly speaking English.
Abstract: People's values reflect their self‐images and group memberships, and cross‐cultural differences in values may mirror the social structures of societies thus compared. This investigation examined the values of three groups of British adolescents by means of the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS), viz., bilingual Welsh, English‐only‐speaking Welsh, and English‐only‐speaking English. Since, the issue of language can accentuate the cultural conflict between the English and Welsh, language of testing may be an important factor in assessing bilinguals’ values. In addition, bilinguals also completed a second RVS as they imagined an English adolescent would, thereby allowing a comparison of actual and perceived differences in values. Multi‐ and univariate statistical analyses were performed on the data with the main factors of sex, group and language of testing (where appropriate). Results showed few differences between the actual values held by the three groups or for language of testing them. Nevertheless, significant discrepancies between the bilinguals’ perceptions of their own values and those of their imagined English counterparts emerged. In this instance, the quantity and quality of this differentiation were dependent on the language of testing (Welsh versus English). The implications of these results were discussed within the context of a recent model of the functions of social stereotypes.
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TL;DR: Giles and Bourhis as discussed by the authors showed that the processes underlying the greater speech assimilation among British than American Blacks during the mid-1970's were inescapable and that Ball's interpretation of it in no way detracts from their findings.
Abstract: Howard Giles (University of Bristol, UK) and Richard Y. Bourhis (McMaster University, Canada) 1982 10 (2), 249-251 Bell's (1982) reanalysis of our data (Giles & Bourhis, 1975, 1976; Bourhis & Giles, 1977) and his interpretation of it, we believe, in no way detracts from our finds; our conclusions we believe are inescapable. We note that Ball raises no objections to the theoretical stance we took concerning the processes underlying the greater speech assimilation amongst British than American Blacks during the mid-1970's.
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TL;DR: The third most cited scholar at the First International Journal of Sociology of Language and Communication (FJCLC) as mentioned in this paper, the European Monograph Series of the European Social Psychology of Language (EMCL) was published in the early 1970s.
Abstract: and experimental work on intergroup relations, social conflict and social change has attracted worldwide acclaim and has been especially influential in shaping European social psychology. He was also very much involved in the development of the social psychology of language, encouraging, promoting and funding a large number of others’ work in it. It is for instance no accident that one quarter of the volumes in the European Monograph Series which he edited were directly concerned with language and communication. Such a focus on these issues is obviously an extremely rare occurrence in book series deriving from this discipline. Although he published little himself in sociopsycholinguistics, his tremendous contribution to thought and empirical work in it can be gauged from the fact that he was the third most cited scholar at the First International
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