Attitude Update: Spanish on the South Texas Border
Attitude Update: Spanish on the South Texas Border
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态度更新：德克萨斯州南部边境的西班牙人
DOI：
10.2307/20062822
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发表时间：
2003
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通讯作者：
Ralph Carlson
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作者：
Hugo A. Mejias;Pamela L. Anderson;Ralph Carlson
这篇文章回顾了德克萨斯州格兰德河谷下游的德克萨斯大学泛美分校学生对西班牙语的态度。这所大学85%的本科生认为自己是西语裔。在一定程度上，由于大学的存在，这个由四个县组成的地区在过去20年里继续经历了无数的社会和经济变化。1982年，在德克萨斯-泛美大学的学生中收集了数据，试图从四个社会语言学态度维度--交际、工具、情感和价值--来衡量他们对西班牙语的态度。本文分析了18年后于2000年收集的类似数据。将表达的态度与性别、年龄和世代的人口统计变量进行比较。然后得出关于西班牙语保留的结论。
This article revisits attitudes toward Spanish among students attending the University of Texas-Pan American in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Eighty-five percent of the undergraduate students at this institution consider themselves Hispanic. In part due to the presence of the university, this four-county area has continued to experience numerous social and economic changes over the past two decades. In 1982, data were collected among UT-Pan American students in an attempt to gauge their attitudes toward the Spanish language along four sociolinguistic attitudinal dimensions - communication, instrumental, sentimental, and value. The present article analyzes data similarly collected, eighteen years later, in 2000. Comparisons are made between the attitudes expressed and the demographic variables of gender, age, and generation. Conclusions regarding retention of Spanish are then drawn.