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{"title":"Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Account for Students’ Choice of a Target Accent (Part 2)","authors":"K. Przygoński","doi":"10.4467/20834624sl.19.016.11061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.19.016.11061","url":null,"abstract":"Bearing in mind the importance of attitude in sociolinguistic research and its huge theoretical potential for accounting for various language behaviours, it is surprising to see numerous misconceptions concerning this construct and its conceptualization as well as criticism as to its role in predicting and explaining speech behaviour (cf., for instance, Cargile, Giles 1997: 195; Edwards 1999: 109; Ladegaard 2000: 229–230; Garrett 2001: 630; Soukup 2012; Taylor, Marsden 2014). The author claims that attitude research can still prove very insightful and helpful in sociolinguistic theory building, but to do so, one needs to reconceptualize attitude along the reasoned action approach on the foundations of which the theory of planned behaviour rests. The theory posits that attitude is one of the three general predictors having a sufficient explanatory and predictive power in the case of most human behaviours. The major goal of the present article is to report on a study attempting to apply the theory of planned behaviour to explain why students of English being given an alternative to choose either an English or American accent as a target model to learn opt for one and not the other. The second goal of the article is to discuss the role of language attitudes in determining students’ decisions. Part 2 of the article elaborates on the main study as well as includes a brief discussion followed by suggestions for further research. 200 KRZYSZTOF PRZYGOŃSKI 5. The main study – introduction The main study was conducted with a view to answering two research questions concerning respectively: (1) the assessment of the potential of the three TPB variables (predictors) for explaining a language-related behaviour and (2) the actual importance of attitude in determining students’ behaviour. To specify, the study consisted in establishing the strength and nature of the correlations between the three variables and students’ choices of the target accents: British (Received Pronunciation – RP) and American (General American – GA) ones. Since the theory of planned behaviour posits that individuals behave largely the way they do because of their attitudes, social pressure and perceived behavioural control, the three predictors were hypothesized to offer a valuable insight into the causes of students’ course enrolment decisions and, in this way, account for their choices. It was taken that the greater the differences in the values assumed by a particular variable with respect to the two accents (for instance, attitude to GA vs. attitude to RP), the more likely it was that this variable impacted on students’ choices. In addition, more extreme values of variables as opposed to those “more neutral” were assumed to point to their greater role in influencing students’ decisions. Importantly, it was also presupposed that in some cases a decision to learn a given target accent could have resulted from very low values assumed by the variables related to the declined pronunciati","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Defence of Lydgate: Lydgate’s Use of Binomials in his Troy Book (Part 1)","authors":"Hans Sauer","doi":"10.4467/20834624sl.19.019.11064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.19.019.11064","url":null,"abstract":"Section 1 provides a very brief introduction to Lydgate, who was probably the most prolific English poet. He was also fond of rhetoric and frequently employed binomials. A short definition of binomials is given in section 2. Section 3 looks at the relation of binomials and multinomials, section 4 at the density and function of binomials, section 5 at previous research, and section 6 sketches formal features of binomials (especially structure, word-classes, alliteration). Section 7 discusses the etymological structure of binomials (native word + native word, loan-word + loan-word, native word + loan-word, loan-word + native word), and the so-called translation theory. Section 8 deals with the semantic structure of binomials, i.e. the semantic relation between the two words that make up a binomial. The main relations are synonymy, antonymy, and complementarity – the latter has many subgroups.","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oddments: A miscellany of English etymologies (part 2)","authors":"W. Sayers","doi":"10.4467/20834624SL.19.008.10603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.19.008.10603","url":null,"abstract":"This multi-part study continues an inquiry earlier initiated in these pages into words listed in Oxford English dictionary as still without satisfactory etymologies. Loans from a variety of source languages are reviewed, accompanied by commentary on earlier lexicographical praxis as it relates to various popular registers of English.","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Applying the theory of planned behaviour to account for students’ choice of a target accent (part 1)","authors":"K. Przygoński","doi":"10.4467/20834624sl.19.014.10609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.19.014.10609","url":null,"abstract":"Bearing in mind the importance of attitude in sociolinguistic research and its huge theoretical potential for accounting for various language behaviours, it is surprising to see numerous misconceptions concerning this construct and its conceptualization as well as criticism as to its role in predicting and explaining speech behaviour (cf., for instance, Cargile, Giles 1997: 195; Edwards 1999: 109; Ladegaard 2000: 229–230; Garrett 2001: 630; Soukup 2012; Taylor, Marsden 2014). The author claims that attitude research can still prove very insightful and helpful in sociolinguistic theory building, but to do so, one needs to reconceptualize attitude along the reasoned action approach on the foundations of which the theory of planned behaviour rests. The theory posits that attitude is one of the three general predictors having a sufficient explanatory and predictive power in the case of most human behaviours. The major goal of the present article is to report on a study attempting to apply the theory of planned behaviour to explain why students of English being given an alternative to choose either an English or American accent as a target model to learn opt for one and not the other. The second goal of the article is to discuss the role of language attitudes in determining students’ decisions. Part 1 of the article includes a brief theoretical introduction as well as a detailed description of two pilot studies which served to prepare the research instrument for the main investigation. 170 KRZYSZTOF PRZYGOŃSKI","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lexical hybridization of English and German elements: a comparison between spoken German and the language of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel","authors":"Jaime W. Hunt","doi":"10.4467/20834624sl.19.010.10605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.19.010.10605","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of English on German has resulted in not only the direct importation of a vast number of English loanwords but also their hybridization with native German elements. The most common types of language hybrids, or loanblends, using Haugen’s (1950) terminology, in German include blended compounds containing one element from the source language and another from the receptor language (e.g. Businessbereich ‘business sector’ and Krafttraining ‘strength training’) in addition to blended derivations where autochthonous derivational affixes are attached to English stems (e.g. sportlich ‘sporty’ and rumsurfen ‘to surf around’). This paper contributes to the investigation of how, and to what extent, English elements become morphologically embedded into German by analyzing the English-German hybrid formations from a corpus of everyday spoken German (42,429 types and 1,280,773 tokens) and the texts appearing in the Spiegel newsmagazine from the year 2000 (287,301 types and 5,202,583 tokens). General findings indicate that the most common form of hybridization is the compounding of English specifiers with German heads and much less the attachment of German morphemes (both derivational affixes and semi-affixes) to English stems in both spoken and written texts. These forms of hybridization demonstrate both the productive word formation processes of German as well as its contact-induced lexical enrichment beyond the mere direct borrowing of loanwords. However, when analyzed separately, the most frequently-occurring specifiers and heads were anglicisms. A slight preference for German affixation (affixes and semi-affixes) was found in the spoken corpus with the Spiegel corpus containing more English semi-affixes.","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Internationalisms, Anglo-Latinisms and other kinship ties between Italian and English","authors":"V. Pulcini","doi":"10.4467/20834624SL.19.011.10606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.19.011.10606","url":null,"abstract":"In the analysis of language contact and borrowing, the category of internationalism denotes lexical items that are formally and semantically similar across unrelated languages, mainly of neo-classical origin. Internationalisms are characteristically unmarked for a specific national provenance, like the pair En electricity / It elettricità. On the other hand, many similar examples, such as En romantic and It romantico, are the result of borrowings from English into Italian, a fact that can be established only on historical grounds, because the word itself does not reveal any trace of foreignness to the lay Italian speaker, being Italian a Latin-based language. In this paper, the lexical category of internationalism will be defined and set apart from other outcomes of language contact, like direct and indirect Anglicisms, Anglo-Latinisms, and other forms of linguistic kinship between these two, partly unrelated, European languages. Linguistic factors such as etymology, route of transmission, and non-linguistic ones such as historical events and motivation for borrowing (Wexler 1969) are used for this analysis, which will be applied to relevant examples of Italian vocabulary.","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of English on Cuban Spanish: A glossary-based analysis of morphological adaptations (Part 1)","authors":"J. A. Sánchez Fajardo","doi":"10.4467/20834624sl.19.004.10247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.19.004.10247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70984991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Development of PIE Initial Iota in Greek – Reevaluation of Evidence in Context of Typological Data (Part 2)","authors":"Szymon Nowak","doi":"10.4467/20834624sl.19.018.11063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.19.018.11063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Polish faces of English acronyms and alphabetisms: an illustration pf contact-induced linguistic diversity (Part 2)","authors":"Alicja Witalisz","doi":"10.4467/20834624sl.19.005.10248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624sl.19.005.10248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Formative evaluation – its past, present and future","authors":"H. Komorowska, Warsaw Humanities","doi":"10.4467/20834624SL.19.013.10608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.19.013.10608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38769,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70985873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}