Prestigio, afecto e identidad: las actitudes lingüísticas en Panamá

Abstract

This master’s thesis is about linguistic attitudes that speakers from Panama have about their own variety, and what degree of prestige, identity, and emotional attitudes they assign to their own variety. The study presented here shows the results of a questionnaire where 30 people participated, and which probes different aspects of the values that they assign to the Panama variety in contrast with other Hispanic varieties and with respect to the internal variation among varieties in Panama, specifically the contrast between the Capital and the more rural areas. This thesis has five parts where I explain the methods used, the questions chosen to collect the information needed, the results and the conclusions.