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Underwood, Gary N. – 1974
This paper reports on the Arkansas Language Survey, which had two purposes: (1) to explore the idea advanced by Labov that Americans generally have negative attitudes about their language, and to see to what extent this applies to Arkansawyers; and (2) to determine how Arkansawyers judge the way other Americans speak English. The twenty-four white…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Language Usage
