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The attitudes of Xitsonga L1 urban youth in Soshanguve toward the dialet accents of the rural elderly.

Malatji, Khutso Alpha
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Language attitudes studies are very special and important in social psychology of language. Formal measurements of attitudes provide us with findings that could be analyse or used to predict the linguistic behaviour of members of a particular social group, in terms of their use of linguistic varieties in bilingual and bidialectal situations (Agheyisi, 1970). This study investigated the attitudes of Xitsonga L1 urban youth in Soshanguve toward the dialect accents of the rural elderly from Giyani. It also investigated the attitudes of the Xitsonga L1 rural elderly in Giyani toward urban youth dialect accents in Soshanguve. Forty urban youth and ten rural elderly respondents participated in the study, using an adaptation of the Matched Guise Technique, focus and semi-structured interviews. The survey findings showed that the attitudes of the Xitsonga L1 urban youth toward the dialect accents of rural elderly were significantly negative, while the attitudes of the Xitsonga L1 rural elderly toward the dialect accents of urban youth were equally significantly negative.
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Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Magister Technologiae: Language Practice in the Department of Applied Languages, Faculty of Humanities at the Tshwane University of Technology.
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2020-08-01
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Tshwane University of Technology
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Xitsonga language variation, Urban-rural varieties, Generational accents, Matched Guise Technique
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