A Bibliography on Language Attitude Studies


This bibliography was compiled by Xu Daming and put out by Linguist list, issue 7.250, Feb 16 1996. It was forwarded to me by Norma Mendoza.


  • Ajzen, I. 1988. Attitudes, personality, and behavior. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

  • Baker, Colin. 1992. Attitudes and language. Clevedon [England]/Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters.

  • Ball, P. & H. Giles 1982, Speech style and employment selection: the matched-guise technique. In G.M. Breakwell, H. Foot & R. Gilmour (eds.), Social Psychology: A Practical Manual. London: Macmillan Press

  • Bradac, J.J. 1990. Language Attitudes and Impression Formation. In H. Giles & W.P. Robinson (eds.), Handbook of Language and Social Psychology.

  • Cargile, A.C., Giles, H., Ryan, E.B. & Bradac, J.J. 1994. Language attitudes as a social process: A conceptual model and new directions. Language & Communication, 14, 3, 211-236.

  • Coupland, N., Giles, H. & Wiemann, J.M. 1991. ``Miscommunication" and problematic talk. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications.

  • Eagly, A.H. & Chaiken, S. 1993. The psychology of attitudes. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

  • Edwards, J.R. 1985. Language, Society and Identity. Oxford: Blackwell.

  • Edwards, John. 1994. Multilingualism. London & New York: Routledge, 'Language attitude', 97-102).

  • Fasold, Ralph. 1984. The sociolinguistics of society. (Ch. 6 Language attitudes). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

  • Feifel, Karl-Eugen. 1994. Language Attitudes in Taiwan. A Social Evaluation of Language in Social Change. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co. Ltd.

  • Fishbein, M. & Ajzen, I. 1975. Belief, attitude, intention and behaviour; An introduction to theory and research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

  • Genesee, F. and N. Holobow 1978. Children's reactions to variations in second language competence. In Paradis, Michel (ed.) Aspects of Bilingualism. Columbia, South Carolina: Hornbeam Press, 185-201.

  • Giles, Howard and Ellen B. Ryan (eds.). 1982. Attitudes towards language variation. Social and applied contexts. London: Edward Arnold.

  • Giles, Howard, Miles Hewstone, and Peter Ball. 1983. ``Language attitudes in multilingual settings: prologue with priorities." Journal of multilingual and multicultural development 4, 2&3, 81-96.

  • Giles, H., Hewstone, M., Ryan, E., & Johnson 1987. Research on Language Attitudes. In U. Ammon, N. Dittmar & K.J. Mattheier (eds.), Sociolinguistics. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. vol. I.

  • Giles, H. & N. Coupland 1991. Language: Contexts and Consequences. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, (chapter 2).

  • Giles, Howard. 1992. ``Current and future directions in sociolinguistics: a social psychological contribution." Sociolinguistics today. International perspectives. Eds. by Kingsley Bolton and Helen Kwok. London/New York: Routledge, 361-368.

  • Grosjean, F. 1982. Life with two languages: An introduction to bilingualism. Cambridge, Mass./London, England. (Attitudes towards language groups and languages, 117-126).

  • Hampson, S.E. 1988. The construction of personality: An introduction. (Second edition). London: Routledge.

  • Harlech-Jones, Brian. 1990. You taught me language: the implementation of English as a medium of instruction in Namibia. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

  • Holmes, Janet. 1992. An introduction to sociolinguistics. London & New York: Longman. (Attitudes and applications, 344-368).

  • Jonas, K. & Hewstone, M. 1986. The assessment of national stereotypes: A methodological study. The journal of social psychology, 126, 6, 745-754.

  • LIAO, Chao-chih and Yu-hwei E. LII-SHIH. 1993. University undergraduates' attitudes on Code-mixing and sex stereotypes. Pragmatics. Vol. 3. No. 4. Pp. 425-449.

  • Lyczak, Richard, Gail Fu, and Audrey Ho. 1979. Language attitudes among university students in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Language Papers, ed. by Robert Lord, 62-71. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

  • McRae, Kenneth D. 1983. Conflict and compromise in multilingual societies: Switzerland. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

  • Miller, D.C. 1991. Handbook of research design and social measurement. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

  • Mparutsa, Cynthia, Juliet Thondhlana, and Nigel T. Crawhall. 1992. ``An initial investigation into language attitudes of secondary school students in Zimbabwe." Language and society in Africa. The theory and practice of sociolinguistics. Ed. by Robert K. Herbert. Cape Town: Wits University Press, 235-245.

  • Oppenheim, A.N. 1966. Questionnaire design and attitude measurement. London: Heinemann.

  • Oppenheim, B. 1982. A exercise in attitude measurement. In G.M. Breakwell, H. Foot & R. Gilmour (eds.), Social Psychology: A Practical Manual. London: Macmillan Press.

  • Oskamp, S. 1991. Attitudes and opinions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

  • Peabody, D. & Goldberg, L.R. 1989. Some determinants of factor structures from personality trait descriptors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 3, 552- 567.

  • Pennington, Martha C. 1994. English and Chinese in Hong Kong: pre-1997 language attitudes. World Englishes 13:1

  • Petty, R.E. & Cacioppo, J.T. 1981. Attitudes and persuasion: Classic and contemporary approaches. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers.

  • Poedjosoedarmo, Gloria R. 1995. Lectal variation in the media and the classroom: A preliminary analysis of attitudes. The English language in Singapore: Implications for teaching, ed. by Teng S.C. & Ho M.L., 53-67. Singapore: Singapore Association of Applied Linguistics.

  • Poplack, Shana. 1993. Variation theory and language contact. American dialect research, ed. by Dennis R. Preston, 251-86. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

  • Rabel-Heymann, Lili 1978. But how does a bilingual feel? Reflections on linguistic attitudes of immigrant academics. In Paradis, Michel (ed.) Aspects of Bilingualism. Columbia, South Carolina: Hornbeam Press. 220-228

  • Rietveld, T. & Hout, R. van 1993. Statistical techniques for the study of language and language behaviour. Berlin: Moutin de Gruyter.

  • Roos, Riana. 1990. ``Language attitudes in the second language situation." Per linguam 6, 2: 25-30.

  • Ryan, Ellen and Howard Giles 1982. Attitudes toward Language Variation: Social and Applied Contexts_ Arnold,

  • Ryan, E., Giles, H. & M. Hewstone 1988. The Measurement of Language Attitudes. In U. Ammon, N. Dittmar & K.J. Mattheier (eds.) Sociolinguistics. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. vol. II.

  • Saint-Jacques, Bernard 1978. Elicitation of cultural stereotypes through the presentation of voices in two languages. In Paradis, Michel (ed.) Aspects of Bilingualism. Columbia, South Carolina: Hornbeam Press, 179-184.

  • Scherer, K.R. & Eckman, P. 1982. Handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Schuman, Howard and Stanley Presser. 1981. Questions and answers in attitude surveys. Experiments on question, form, wording, and context. New York: Academic Press.

  • Shuy, Roger W. and Ralph W. Fasold, (eds.). 1973. Language attitudes: current trends and prospects. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

  • Smit, Ute. 1996 (forthcoming). A new English for a new South Africa? Language attitudes, language planning and education. Vienna: Braumueller.

  • Williams, Frederick. 1976. Explorations of the linguistic attitudes of teachers. Rowley, Massachusetts: Newbury House Publishers Inc.

  • Woelck, Wolfgang, 1985. `Language attitude studies. Problems and suggestions'. In: Hartig, Matthias, ed., Perspektiven der angewandten Soziolinguistik, Tuebingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 35-48.

  • Young, Douglas N. et al. 1991. Language planning and attitudes towards the role and status of languages, especially English, in Western Cape secondary schools. (Unpub. report) University of Cape Town.

  • Zahn, Christopher J. and Robert Hopper. 1985. ``Measuring language attitudes: the speech evaluation instrument." Journal of language and social psychology 4, 2: 113-123.


    This list was contributed by Norma Mendoza-Denton, The Ohio State University, who states ``I have a bibliography ... on language attitudes. It was compiled by someone else ... so I don't even know who should get credit."
    Harold F. Schiffman, haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu , last modified 10/28/96