TY - JOUR
T1 - Language attitudes and social group memberships
AU - Kraemer, Roberta
AU - Birenbaum, Menucha
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partially supported by the British Council. We are grateful to Claire Gordon for her assistance in all aspects of the study. We thank Dr. Hezi Brosh, Fadia Nasser, and Salih Bdeir for their help in data collection. The senior author of this article, Dr. Roberta Kraemer, passed away in August 1992. May her blessed memory be an inspiration to all of us. Requests for reprints should be sent to Menucha Birenbaum, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Israel. E-mail: BIREN~CCSG.TAU.AC.IL
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - This study examined the saliency of two independent dimensions of group identity-gender and ethnicity-for attitudes toward different languages in an Israeli context. The study is presented within the framework of social identity theory and treats the implications of multiple group memberships for the interpersonal/intergroup continuum of social behavior. The sample included 343 ninth grade Jewish and Arab students in Israel who responded to semantic differential scales for each of three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and English. It was hypothesized that gender would be the relevant group category for attitudes toward English, which is considered to be "ethnically neutral", but not for Hebrew and Arabic. For the latter two languages, the saliency of ethnic group membership was expected to override any gender-language link. The results basically supported the hypotheses with the exception that ethnic group membership was a relevant category for English in addition to gender.
AB - This study examined the saliency of two independent dimensions of group identity-gender and ethnicity-for attitudes toward different languages in an Israeli context. The study is presented within the framework of social identity theory and treats the implications of multiple group memberships for the interpersonal/intergroup continuum of social behavior. The sample included 343 ninth grade Jewish and Arab students in Israel who responded to semantic differential scales for each of three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and English. It was hypothesized that gender would be the relevant group category for attitudes toward English, which is considered to be "ethnically neutral", but not for Hebrew and Arabic. For the latter two languages, the saliency of ethnic group membership was expected to override any gender-language link. The results basically supported the hypotheses with the exception that ethnic group membership was a relevant category for English in addition to gender.
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U2 - 10.1016/0147-1767(93)90003-Q
DO - 10.1016/0147-1767(93)90003-Q
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AN - SCOPUS:0011054067
SN - 0147-1767
VL - 17
SP - 437
EP - 449
JO - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
JF - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
IS - 4
ER -