Språk og språkhaldningar hjå ungdomar i Sogndal

In this thesis I have studied 24 linguistic variables, 13 phonological and 11 morphological, from the dialect in Sogndal. I have also studied attitudes towards the dialect in the village. My aim has been to investigate what is happening to the dialect and the attitudes towards it among adolescents in Sogndal. In order to try to explain what is happening, I have used a model from social psychology “the theory of planned behavior” (Ajzen 1988) and have also looked at the informants’ social network with citizens from Sogndal. An in-depth interview with three informants showing different attitudes to the dialect in Sogndal was made in order to try to understand what factors lie behind the language and the attitudes to language that people develop. I have had four main research questions. The data collection has been carried out in a funnel-shaped model. I started with a wide question and many informants and then narrowed down the perspective and the amount of participants. The research has been carried out using both quantitative and qualitative methods. I have used different attitude research in order to better get hold of the three different attitude components: conative, cognitive and affective.1 Research question 1: What attitudes do people in Sogndal have to the Sogndal dialect? I wanted to find the answer to this question with research based on the conative component. I hoped that a “matched guise” test2 at the cinema in Sogndal would give me answers to how citizens of Sogndal react when they hear different varieties of the Sogndal dialect. 297 tickets were sold, but only 14 persons, 4,7%, answered. The response from cinemagoers was therefore too small to give any answers to my research question. Research question 2: What attitudes do adolescents in Sogndal have to the dialect in Sogndal? I wanted to answer this question by doing a “verbal guise” test among all the pupils at Sogndal secondary school the year 2000/2001. I asked 153 pupils to listen to three varieties of the dialect in Sogndal: a traditional ...