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LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF ITALO‐AUSTRALIAN AND GREEK‐AUSTRALIAN BILINGUALS *
Author(s) -
Callan Victor J.,
Gallois Cynthia
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598208247450
Subject(s) - psychology , language function , humanities , first language , linguistics , art , philosophy
The purpose of this research was to investigate differences in the perception of speakers as a function of their language and sex. Forty‐two Italo‐Australian and 56 Greek‐Australian young people listened to male and female speakers in each of their two languages, using Lambert et al's. (1960) guise method. Results indicated few differences in Italo‐Australian subjects' ratings of speakers as a function of language, while Greek‐Australian subjects, in general, rated Greek guises more positively than English guises. In addition, Italo‐Australian subjects rated female subjects more positively than male speakers irrespective of language, but Greek‐Australian subjects reversed this pattern.