Attitudes of Swedish Learners of Japanese towards Japanese Dialects: A Quantitative Study
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Summary, in English
The present thesis is a quantitative study investigating the attitudes of Swedish learners of Japanese towards Japanese dialects. Current or previous Swedish students of Japanese completed a survey in which they listened to recordings of five different dialects of Japanese, and evaluated these dialects in terms of various personality traits. Furthermore, their ability to identify the dialects was tested. The results of the study showed that Swedish learners of Japanese held quite neutral attitudes towards Japanese dialects, and were also generally similar to native Japanese attitudes. Differences in attitudes were found depending on the informants’ gender, self-perceived proficiency of Japanese and previous exposure to Japanese.
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Publishing year
2017
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English
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Document type
Student publication for Bachelor's degree
Topic
- Languages and Literatures
Keywords
- Japanese
- dialects
- language attitudes
- dialect attitudes
- dialect identification
Supervisor
- Shinichiro Ishihara (Reader)