Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 187-209

  Giles, Howard ^a   Billings, Andrew C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canadians; Evaluation; Judgment; Origins; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890588763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757000.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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