language attitudes
Language attitudes refer to the feelings, beliefs, and opinions that individuals have towards different languages or dialects. These attitudes can impact how people perceive speakers of certain languages, how they interact with them, and can influence language use and language policy decisions. Language attitudes can be positive or negative, and can contribute to language maintenance or language shift in a community.
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