language attitudes are very strong
indicators of our opinions and thoughts
our feelings and our behaviors studying
languages within they subtly the socio
cultural social linguistic context is
really an efficient way of telling us
and explaining the language behavior as
well has been a thing by which change
but how often do we really think of our
language attitudes how do we as speakers
perceive our own linguistic choices and
those individuals ISM others and also
what factors would influence our
preciouses foreign language variety over
another today I will answer all of these
questions and I will make specific
reference to Arabic so let’s start first
by a concept of attitude so why is
attitude researchers defined it as it so
as a psychological variable which has
three main components the affective
component which concerns the speaker’s
feelings about language they liked it
and hated about this Peters of language
we also have me cognitive component
which basically are the facts and
knowledge about a language and finally
we have behavioral component which is
reaction or basically readiness to light
so before I talk about language
attitudes towards Arabic I would like to
start with English and me will do this
my show of hands and see if I can
anybody how many of you think of this as
good English okay yes thank you
and how many of you think of this as
good English okay good I see more
consensus in this room as to the second
one
being an example of good English but why
is that because basically we inherit our
attitudes as members within each
community so we do have their collective
passages so let’s start to make every
context there’s a few realistic
realities of the airholes Arab speakers
use two languages classical Arabic and
vernacular area what do I mean by this
so speakers in every single Arab country
has their own vernacular with its own
distinctive features that differ from
other dialects are spoken parts with
certain linguistic features but all
Arabs use classical Arabic as the
language of unity and so to describe the
relationship between classical Arabic
and they’re not you learn Arabic if I
may say then we refer to as
sociolinguistic situation called
diagnosed you and my Lucia we refer to
coexistence of two languages or two
language varieties one in this case the
last narrative being the high frame is
the formal it’s the highly qualified
probably more
complex it’s specifically used for very
very formal situations like political
speeches like religious sermons and it
is the language of writing whereas
vernacular Arabic is basically little
variety
medium formal variety the dialect that
is quoted by most population and most
importantly it is not used for writing
and so in the minds of parents they do
believe strongly that the two varieties
are so distinctive apart from a
logically morphologically as in
tactically that they can never lose
except in power imagination and so why
do we have that great respect for a
facet of Arabic why is it bhai the
revered variety well in the minds of
Paris
there are many reasons so any logically
speaking classical Arabic is the
language of unity it’s an expression of
Arab identity historically speaking is
the symbol of civilization and
linguistically of course it’s the most
beautiful the most eloquent and has been
a foot hop and functionally it is the
language of Education and the language
of formal communication most importantly
that provides ears to other groups
basically is the language of the most
sacred text which is not so because of
this again the two varieties can never
beat except in our imagination my
research indicates otherwise
so in my research I asked my respondents
Arabic speakers about their attitudes
and feelings about the vernacular Arabic
in this case jordanian air overwhelming
majority said they had favorable
affective attitudes toward spoken but
when i asked them about their beliefs
and whether they think that vernacular
arabic is more important that classical
Arabic overwhelming majority had an
unfavorable cognitive attitude and as we
cannot notice there’s a lack of harmony
between speakers emotions of the
one-half and speaker attitudes and
beliefs on the other half we can also
notice speakers that with certainty
about their attitudes as well we totally
would like to think of this as a
predictor of change and another question
I asked my respondents about their
perception of other speakers who use
classical Arabic and whether there are
loyal or detached from their community
again speakers or respondents have
majority of their respondents being
favorable cognitively to classical
Arabic because they said
are loyal to the language and also
closer and that detached from their own
communities but when I asked speakers
about the diamond they use or they write
either use that word again
there was this favorable positive
feeling towards using an ocular into
daily life communications and so again
here we see and this propensity or
mismatch between speakers it is on the
one hand and speakers behavior on the
other hand again we’d like to think of
this as a prediction of change and so
the result is the clear-cut line that
separated classical Arabic from
vernacular Arabic that Lily existed for
a very very long time is becoming a
little Larry
so attitudes are slightly changing
speakers behaviors like a changing and
the change is coming going this way it’s
happening sooner or later with that I
would like to conclude by examining the
language attitudes and complexities of
language attitude I do think we can
predict language change and needs to be
embraced and accepted even though it
might cause a confusion or
dissatisfaction uncertainty along the
way but it has to be accepted as the
natural language development for living
languages and so next time when you
observe a change in language or NSP
behaviors I invite you to enjoy that
change to embrace it and not judge it
negatively because us Shakespeare once
said there’s nothing either bad or what
but thinking
[Applause]
indicators of our opinions and thoughts
our feelings and our behaviors studying
languages within they subtly the socio
cultural social linguistic context is
really an efficient way of telling us
and explaining the language behavior as
well has been a thing by which change
but how often do we really think of our
language attitudes how do we as speakers
perceive our own linguistic choices and
those individuals ISM others and also
what factors would influence our
preciouses foreign language variety over
another today I will answer all of these
questions and I will make specific
reference to Arabic so let’s start first
by a concept of attitude so why is
attitude researchers defined it as it so
as a psychological variable which has
three main components the affective
component which concerns the speaker’s
feelings about language they liked it
and hated about this Peters of language
we also have me cognitive component
which basically are the facts and
knowledge about a language and finally
we have behavioral component which is
reaction or basically readiness to light
so before I talk about language
attitudes towards Arabic I would like to
start with English and me will do this
my show of hands and see if I can
anybody how many of you think of this as
good English okay yes thank you
and how many of you think of this as
good English okay good I see more
consensus in this room as to the second
one
being an example of good English but why
is that because basically we inherit our
attitudes as members within each
community so we do have their collective
passages so let’s start to make every
context there’s a few realistic
realities of the airholes Arab speakers
use two languages classical Arabic and
vernacular area what do I mean by this
so speakers in every single Arab country
has their own vernacular with its own
distinctive features that differ from
other dialects are spoken parts with
certain linguistic features but all
Arabs use classical Arabic as the
language of unity and so to describe the
relationship between classical Arabic
and they’re not you learn Arabic if I
may say then we refer to as
sociolinguistic situation called
diagnosed you and my Lucia we refer to
coexistence of two languages or two
language varieties one in this case the
last narrative being the high frame is
the formal it’s the highly qualified
probably more
complex it’s specifically used for very
very formal situations like political
speeches like religious sermons and it
is the language of writing whereas
vernacular Arabic is basically little
variety
medium formal variety the dialect that
is quoted by most population and most
importantly it is not used for writing
and so in the minds of parents they do
believe strongly that the two varieties
are so distinctive apart from a
logically morphologically as in
tactically that they can never lose
except in power imagination and so why
do we have that great respect for a
facet of Arabic why is it bhai the
revered variety well in the minds of
Paris
there are many reasons so any logically
speaking classical Arabic is the
language of unity it’s an expression of
Arab identity historically speaking is
the symbol of civilization and
linguistically of course it’s the most
beautiful the most eloquent and has been
a foot hop and functionally it is the
language of Education and the language
of formal communication most importantly
that provides ears to other groups
basically is the language of the most
sacred text which is not so because of
this again the two varieties can never
beat except in our imagination my
research indicates otherwise
so in my research I asked my respondents
Arabic speakers about their attitudes
and feelings about the vernacular Arabic
in this case jordanian air overwhelming
majority said they had favorable
affective attitudes toward spoken but
when i asked them about their beliefs
and whether they think that vernacular
arabic is more important that classical
Arabic overwhelming majority had an
unfavorable cognitive attitude and as we
cannot notice there’s a lack of harmony
between speakers emotions of the
one-half and speaker attitudes and
beliefs on the other half we can also
notice speakers that with certainty
about their attitudes as well we totally
would like to think of this as a
predictor of change and another question
I asked my respondents about their
perception of other speakers who use
classical Arabic and whether there are
loyal or detached from their community
again speakers or respondents have
majority of their respondents being
favorable cognitively to classical
Arabic because they said
are loyal to the language and also
closer and that detached from their own
communities but when I asked speakers
about the diamond they use or they write
either use that word again
there was this favorable positive
feeling towards using an ocular into
daily life communications and so again
here we see and this propensity or
mismatch between speakers it is on the
one hand and speakers behavior on the
other hand again we’d like to think of
this as a prediction of change and so
the result is the clear-cut line that
separated classical Arabic from
vernacular Arabic that Lily existed for
a very very long time is becoming a
little Larry
so attitudes are slightly changing
speakers behaviors like a changing and
the change is coming going this way it’s
happening sooner or later with that I
would like to conclude by examining the
language attitudes and complexities of
language attitude I do think we can
predict language change and needs to be
embraced and accepted even though it
might cause a confusion or
dissatisfaction uncertainty along the
way but it has to be accepted as the
natural language development for living
languages and so next time when you
observe a change in language or NSP
behaviors I invite you to enjoy that
change to embrace it and not judge it
negatively because us Shakespeare once
said there’s nothing either bad or what
but thinking
[Applause]
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