Honors Program Theses
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Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Cyndi Dunn
Keywords
Polish language--Dialects; Polish language--Dialectology;
Abstract
Perceptual dialectology is the study of how people perceive differences in language. This study was designed to discover Polish college students' attitudes toward the dialects in Poland. Modeled after Dennis Preston's 1986 study of language attitudes in the United States, a map questionnaire was distributed to 100 Jagiellonian University and Krosno College students in Fall 2006. Participants drew boundaries around the areas where people speak differently in Poland and rated each area's correctness compared to Standard Polish. Most participants indicated between three to five regions; the most commonly named regions were Podhale, Katowice, Katowice/Wroclaw, Poznan, and Warsaw. Over half of the participants labeled an area in northern Poland as Kashubian. The regions with the most correct Polish were the Warsaw area and the eastern half of the country. Historical factors appear to play a role in the perceived correctness of the dialects.
Year of Submission
2007
Department
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
5-2007
Object Description
1 PDF file (51 pages)
Copyright
©2007 Angela Ott
Recommended Citation
Ott, Angela, "Język: Attitudes Toward Language in Poland" (2007). Honors Program Theses. 668.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/668
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