2012/02/07 by Ruth Kircher · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies #Multilingual Education and Policy #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #French #Solidarity #Context (archaeology) #Dimension (graph theory) #AP French Language #Sociology #Political science #Linguistics #History #Law #Philosophy #Politics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0959269512000014
openalex publication_date 2012/02/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a study that employed a questionnaire and a matched-guise experiment to investigate the attitudes that Quebec francophones, anglophones, French-English bilinguals and allophones hold towards Quebec French compared to European French. The findings indicate that attitudes towards Quebec French on the solidarity dimension have improved since the 1980s, while attitudes on the status dimension have remained the same. These findings are interpreted in the context of the burgeoning of Quebecers’ sense of belonging to their society on the one hand, and the tradition of viewing French as a monocentric rather than a pluricentric language on the other hand.