Beliefs and attitudes of young canarian university students towards the educated varieties of spanish

Authors

  • Clara Hernández Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Marta Samper Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Abstract

In this article, we shall present the results obtained from the survey carried out within the framework of the PRECAVES XXI project, which was implemented with 117 Canarian students from the degree in ‘Spanish Language and Hispanic Literatures’ at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. We will focus especially on the perceptions of Canarian university students towards their own linguistic variety, but we will also highlight the different evaluations they offer for the other modalities which are included in the project. The results, obtained by means of a methodology that had not been employed until now for the analysis of Canarian speakers’ attitudes, provide us with important novelties in relation to previous research

Keywords:

Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands, linguistic beliefs, linguistic attitudes, PRECAVES XXI, Hispanic Sociolinguistics, Spanish varieties