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Languages, Volume 9, Issue 6

2024 June - 39 articles

Cover Story: This paper presents an online survey of language attitudes regarding Australian English (AusE) with 661 respondents, 34% of whom were born overseas. Respondents were asked to rate AusE along six traits on a seven-point scale. The traits of educatedness, professionalism, and attractiveness consistently centred on neutral. For friendliness and likeability, the majority skewed towards neutral and positive. For the trait of clarity, there was a greater range of responses; however, overall, 50% of respondents found AusE to be somewhat, moderately, or really clear. Overseas-born respondents were more likely to rate their own accent negatively, but they did not differ from the Australian-born in how they rated AusE. These findings further our understanding of attitudes and ideologies in Australia’s increasingly diverse language ecology. View this paper
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