This policy makes people have positive attitude towards these Nigerian languages.

Example of language attitude. These are highly specific such as an employees attitude towards a particular task. The language policy of Nigeria supports and recognizes Hausa Igbo and Yoruba. He further added that.

Attitudes are situational and shouldnt be confused with the. Language attitudes may affect whether or not varieties are mutually intelligible. Past research has primarily focused on documenting attitudes toward standard and nonstandard language varieties.

Even today those holding a prescriptivist viewpoint continue to make judgements about correct usage identifying good and bad examples of language. You Attitude requires that you avoid imperative verbs and the word you and your in the body of the document. We have seen attempts to fix the language and impose rules of usage since the 16 th century with Swifts proposal for a language academy Johnsons dictionary and the work of grammarians such as Lowth.

Recognizing the attitude in this way we could allude that sometimes one of its factors cognitive affective or biological is prioritized while the others can. A good example of linguistic discrimination would be the situation that occurred in the Ann Arbor case where a language barrier was created by the teachers unconscious negative attitude toward students of African American English. Hi Steph Please dont get me wrong I like you and think you do a very good job and Im not being patronising there.

5 Language Attitudes from American Tongues zA Yalie girls attitude to her boyfriends Southern accent zA Northerners attitude to the Southern brogue. Lets look now at a real-life example of a language attitude. However the ontology of attitudes towards the.

Language attitudes are organized along two evaluative dimensions. Status eg intelligent educated and solidarity eg friendly pleasant. Attitudes about language may affect second language learning.