Actitudes hacia el mojeño trinitario : Un estudio sociolingüístico entre jóvenes de Trinidad, Bolivia

• Main Author: Rifi, Monia
• Format: Others
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Högskolan Dalarna, Spanska 2017
• Subjects: Moxo Trinitarian; minority language; language attitudes; Trinidad; young Trinitarians; Likerts; General Language Studies and Linguistics; Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25322

The main aim of this study was to discover and analyse the language attitudes of young Trinitarians between 15 – 24 years old who still live in Trinidad, the Beni area (Bolivia) towards the threatened minority language Moxo Trinitarian. Language attitudes are of importance because they can give us an idea of the present situation of a minority language. The method applied in the survey was direct, where the informants had to answer a written questionnaire first followed by an interview. We used the Likert scale as an instrument to measure the informants’ attitudes. The results of the study show positive attitudes towards the Moxo language. The main conclusions of the study were that the informants, in general, showed positive attitudes towards Moxo, indicating that the main use of the language is mostly in the privacy of their homes and with friends or to share secrets in front of them who are not Moxo Trinitarian speakers.