This study analyzes the language ideologies of young people from two geographically and socially distinct regions of Sydney: Western Sydney and the Northern Beaches. It takes a qualitative approach to examine these speakers’ indexical orientations towards two variable linguistic features that occur in Australian English (like and youse). Although they have different histories in Australian English, like and youse are ideal for the study of language ideologies as both have been subjected to substantial negative social commentary in Australia and other parts of the world. As language ideologies are difficult to measure quantitatively, this study uses the model of indexical fields. Speakers’ indexical orientations are found to differ according to where they are situated within Sydney's socio-regional space, leading to inversed self-evaluations of usage across the two regions. A majority of Western Sydney speakers claim to use youse while a majority of those from Northern Beaches claim to not, and vice versa for like. Interestingly, this does not fully correspond with their actual usage of these features. The construction of indexical fields based on participants’ meta-pragmatic commentary on these features ultimately demonstrates that language features can be re-evaluated and assigned local meaning(s), and contribute to stereotypes.

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变化、语言意识形态和刻板印象：西悉尼和北悉尼对 like 和 youse 的定位

本研究分析了来自悉尼两个地理和社会不同地区的年轻人的语言意识形态：西悉尼和北海滩。需要采用定性方法来检查这些说话者对澳大利亚英语中出现的两个可变语言特征（like 和 youse）的索引取向。尽管他们在澳大利亚英语方面有着不同的历史，但 like 和 youse 是研究语言意识形态的理想之选，因为两者在澳大利亚和世界其他地方都受到了大量负面的社会评论。由于语言意识形态难以定量衡量，本研究采用索引场模型。发现演讲者的索引取向根据他们在悉尼社会区域空间中所处的位置而有所不同，导致两个地区对使用情况的自我评估相反。大多数西悉尼演讲者声称使用你，而北部海滩的大多数人声称没有，反之亦然。有趣的是，这并不完全符合他们对这些功能的实际使用。基于参与者对这些特征的元语用评论的索引字段的构建最终表明语言特征可以被重新评估和分配本地含义，并有助于刻板印象。