Ethnic Identification in Canada: A cross-cultural investigation.

Taylor, Donald M.; Simard, Lise M.; Aboud, Frances E.

doi:10.1037/h0082285

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“…These initial studies have been conducted in Canada (Taylor et al 1972;Taylor et al 1973), Wales (Giles et al 1977;Christian et al 1976) and in French speaking areas of the United States ), contexts where language differences form the fundamental basis of social categorization. Language emerged in these contexts as particularly important, with the exception of Franco-Americans who have no facility in the French language.…”

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Social Identity in Puerto Rico*

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This study examines the social identity of 384 high school students from four age levels (10, 12, 15 and 17 years‐old) in Puerto Rico. This complex society represents an interesting context because of the potential relevance of a number of dimensions for identity including language, cultural heritage, economic status, religion and political beliefs. An important methodological refinement is introduced in order to permit simultaneous examination of these various dimensions in terms of Puerto Rican identity. Three major dimensions of the students' social identity emerged from multidimensional scaling analyses and these were seen to contrast with previous research on ethnic identity in Canada, the United States and Wales.

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Social Identity in Puerto Rico*

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“…Taylor's investigations of ethnic identity in Canada (e.g. Taylor, Bassilli & Aboud, 1973, Taylor, Simard & Aboud, 1972 in which the salience of language as a dimension of ethnic identity was demonstrated, also stimulated social psychologists to take language more seriously. Another important stimulus was Giles and Bourhis' (Bourhis, 1979;Giles, Bourhis & Taylor, 1977) incorporation of Tafjel's (1974,1978, see also 1982) theory of intergroup relations into their formulations.…”

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Social Psychology and Language: a Taxonomy and Overview

Smith

1983

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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The purpose of this overview is briefly to summarise the distinctive contributions of social psychology to the study of language, speech and communication. The breadth and depth of these contributions is indicated with the help of a two-dimensional taxonomy in which research is classified according to its emphasis on language production or language reception, and according to its focus on individual, interpersonal or group processes. The cells of this taxonomy are illustrated with reference to research on: attitudes and motivation in second language learning; the externalisation of personality and emotion in speech; the inference of personality and emotion from speech; lexical influences on message reception; interpersonal constructs and impression formation; interaction chronography ; speech accommodation; speech style evaluation; language and social identity; language attitudes and intergroup relations. Two strong themes that cross-cut this taxonomy are research into the influence of social-developmental and situational factors on language production and reception, each of which is briefly considered. This is followed by a survey of interpretive frameworks that have been imported by social psychologists interested in language to aid their endeavours, and an introduction to the applications to which this work has been put. The final section includes a breakdown of the contributions into methodological types, and a brief discussion of theoretical matters in the investigation of language.

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“…Past research has shown that people in different cultures have different perceptions of the scale descriptors and the traits measured by a questionnaire (Forgas et al 1977;Hermann and Raybeck 1981;Rudmin 1994;Taylor et al 1972;Tzeng and Everett 1985;Tzeng et al 1976;Waston et al 1998). To assure cross-cultural adaptation of the WHOQOL questionnaire, the WHOQOL Group has published many guidelines (World Health Organization 1992, 1993, 1995a-d, 1996.…”

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