SPEAKERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS ACEHNESE DIFFERENT DIALECTS

Zulfadli A. Aziz

Abstract


The Acehnese language is devided mainly into four different dialects: North Acehnese, Pidie dialect, Greater Acehnese, and West Acehnese. This study aims at investigating the attitudes of speakers of Acehnese towards the dialect differences of the language. The data were obtained through semi-structured interview method. The results of the study showed that mostly the Acehnese speakers regard North Acehnese as ‘good’ and ‘standard’, ‘refined,’ and polite. Meanwhile, they perceived the West Acehnese as a stigmatised dialect (e.g. kasar ‘rough’, impolite, and inferior), and therefore they also judge its speakers negatively, stereotyping them as ‘crude’.


Keywords


language attitudes; Acehnese dialect differences; stigmatized dialect

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