Actitudes de los chilenos hacia su propia lengua. : Un estudio sociolingüístico entre los adultos jóvenes de la región Metropolitana en Chile.

Sammanfattning: The objective of this study is to investigate the attitudes that young adults in Chilehave about their own language and to find out their opinion regarding whether there is asuperior and an inferior Spanish. The study was carried out with informants belonging todifferent municipalities in the metropolitan region of Chile. The informants of this study aredivided into 3 age groups, which range from 20-26, 27-33 and 34-40 years.The questionnaire for this study is divided into two parts, where the first is related to generalquestions such as: age, place of birth, gender, level of studies. In the second part of the study,the informants answered 17 questions of the questionnaire about the attitudes they havetowards their own language.The results of this research indicate that the informants show a certain degree ofdissatisfaction with their own language. Moreover, the informants affirm that the CentralZone of Chile has its own linguistic variety. They also express disapp