Dalarna University's logo and link to the university's website

du.sePublications
System update
On Tuesday, August 18th, between 12-1pm, a planned system update of DiVA will take place. During this time, DiVA will not be available.
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • chicago-author-date
  • chicago-note-bibliography
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Actitudes hacia anglicismos necesarios y superfluos: Un estudio sociolingüístico entre neoyorquinos bilingües
Dalarna University, School of Humanities and Media Studies, Spanish.
2020 (Spanish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes towards English loanwords, "anglicisms", among Spanish-English bilinguals in the Metropolitan area of New York. According to the 2010 US Census, this area encompassed approximately 3.5 million people above the age of 5 speaking Spanish at home, excluding the quantity of people who have some knowledge of Spanish but who do not speak it at home.   The method used was a direct one, whereby we sent out a questionnaire, inquiring about the acceptability of 6 anglicisms deemed "necessary" and 6 anglicisms deemed "superfluous" as well as inquiring about the informants’ attitudes towards not only the users of anglicisms but also towards the broader use in society. Given that our goal was to not only have an equal amount of women and men, but also to have 3 clearly defined age groups, for whom Spanish is the maternal language, our end result of 12 participants fitting that description was somewhat underwhelming which led to problems drawing relevant conclusions.  Our main hypothesis was that we would find a higher generalized acceptance level towards anglicisms among our informants across all variables as compared to the wide disapproval found in the broader US bilingual population. In addition, we expected to see no major age-related differences in the attitudes and that men and women be equally accepting towards the necessary anglicisms but that women would show a lower level of approval towards the superfluous anglicisms.  Our hypotheses were mostly borne out by our data other than for the one assuming no agerelated differences in attitudes towards our two categories of anglicisms. The results indicated a markedly lower acceptance level in the oldest age-group than in the 2 younger age-groups, but only for the superfluous kind, while the necessary anglicisms saw similar approval levels across all age-groups.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020.
Keywords [en]
bilingualism, Metropolitan New York, loanwords, anglicisms, linguistic attitudes
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:du-34245OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-34245DiVA, id: diva2:1443589
Available from: 2020-06-18 Created: 2020-06-18 Last updated: 2025-10-09

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(1180 kB)231 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 1180 kBChecksum SHA-512
9c612e46a33c2d5f8389037402705b0acc4152e3f32c7ae2dc4f253f5a7124d4bc9b8d08bf592958c0e0b6196f0d1e2c38b900b5747d8ee6116ad3b61b724f11
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Spanish
Languages and Literature

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 231 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 395 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • chicago-author-date
  • chicago-note-bibliography
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf