In South Africa, current social dynamics are still largely determined by the heavy legacy of apartheid. In this context, the term “Coloured” is widely used to delineate a social group that is generally not considered white or black in the old senses. This study focuses on the implicit language attitudes of 84 young Coloured English and Afrikaans speaking participants towards Cape Flats English, largely associated with Coloured communities of the greater Cape Town area, and Afrikaner English, largely associated with the White group. Implicit Association Test results show an overall statistically significant implicit positive bias towards Cape Flats English among participants, although a small subgroup reversed this tendency. A post-IAT survey was used to investigate the contribution of a number of social variables in determining the biases associated with each accent. A regression analysis detected that participants’ L1, language repertoire and other community language practices play a significant role in predicting such language biases. Furthermore, a correlation analysis also showed a trend regarding both the language distribution in their place of residence and social distance levels with the White group. Finally, a qualitative analysis based on the comparison of context-relevant cases underlined the complex in-group dynamics of the studied sample.

在南非，当前的社会动力仍然很大程度上取决于种族隔离的沉重遗产。在这种情况下，“有色人种”一词被广泛用于描述一个在旧的意义上通常不被认为是白人或黑人的社会群体。这项研究的重点是84名年轻的有色英语和南非语的参与者对与大开普敦地区的有色社区有很大关系的Cape Flats英语和与白人群体有很大关系的Afrikaner English的隐性语言态度。隐性联想测验结果显示，对于Cape Flats English，总体上具有统计学意义的隐性正偏在参与者中，尽管有一小部分人扭转了这一趋势。IAT后的调查被用来调查许多社会变量在确定与每种口音相关的偏见中的作用。回归分析发现，参与者的母语，语言库和其他社区语言习惯在预测此类语言偏见中起着重要作用。此外，相关分析还显示出与白人群体居住地的语言分布和社会距离水平有关的趋势。最后，基于上下文相关案例比较的定性分析强调了所研究样本的复杂群体内动态。