Attitudes of Swedish Learners of Japanese towards Japanese Dialects: A Quantitative Study
(2017) JAPK11 20171Japanese Studies
- Abstract
- 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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- author
- Fahl, Elsa LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- JAPK11 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Japanese, dialects, language attitudes, dialect attitudes, dialect identification
- language
- English
- id
- 8926889
- date added to LUP
- 2017-10-10 14:50:05
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