Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 29] 2020
► pp. 189–210
This is a preliminary research about the linguistic attitudes of Afro-Peruvian participants living in El Carmen, a district located in Chincha (Peru), at the South-Central coast of Peru. Data were collected from in-depth interviews conducted to Afro-Peruvian participants born in El Carmen. Linguistic attitudes are addressed from a Mentalist approach (González, 2009; Zamora, 2015). Results reveal that Afro-Peruvian participants experience linguistic uncertainty about their own way of speaking as they consider it incorrect compared to the Lima inhabitants’ way of speaking, which they perceive as more prestigious. On the other hand, they tend to assess negatively the way of speaking of the Peruvian Highlands inhabitants, as they consider these regions are plenty of indigenous languages from the Andes.