We report on a survey of language attitudes carried out as part of a project comparing youth language in Paris and London.1As in similar studies carried out in London (Cheshire et al., 2008), Berlin (Wiese, 2009) and elsewhere (Boyd et al., 2015), the focus was on features considered typical of ‘contemporary urban vernaculars’ (Rampton, 2015).The respondents were pupils aged 15–18 in two secondary schools in a working-class northern suburb of Paris. The survey included (1) a written questionnaire containing examples of features potentially undergoing change in contemporary French; (2) an analysis of reactions to extracts from the project data: participants were asked to comment on the speakers and the features identified.Quantitative analysis had shown that some of these features are more widespread than others and are used by certain categories of speaker more than others (Gardner-Chloros and Secova, this volume). This study provides a qualitative dimension, showing that different features have different degrees of perceptual salience and acceptability. It demonstrates that youth varieties do not involve characteristic features being used as a ‘package’, and that such changes interact in a complex manner with attitudinal factors. The study also provides material for reflection on the role of attitude studies within sociolinguistic surveys.

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“Il parle normal, il parle comme nous”：自我报告的郊区使用情况和态度

我们报告了一项语言态度调查，该调查是巴黎和伦敦青年语言比较项目的一部分。1正如在伦敦 (Cheshire et al., 2008)、柏林 (Wiese, 2009) 和其他地方 (Boyd et al., 2015) 进行的类似研究一样，重点放在被认为是“当代城市白话”的典型特征上 (Rampton, 2015）。受访者是巴黎北郊一个工人阶级的两所中学的 15-18 岁学生。该调查包括 (1) 一份书面问卷，其中包含当代法语中可能发生变化的特征示例；(2) 对项目数据提取物的反应分析：要求参与者对演讲者和识别的特征发表评论。定量分析表明，其中一些特征比其他特征更普遍，并且被某些类别的演讲者使用得更多比其他人（Gardner-Chloros 和 Secova，本卷）。本研究提供了一个定性维度，表明不同的特征具有不同程度的感知显着性和可接受性。它表明青年品种不涉及被用作“包装”的特征，并且这种变化以复杂的方式与态度因素相互作用。该研究还为反思态度研究在社会语言学调查中的作用提供了材料。