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Moral judgements in a multilingual society
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/128411 Moral judgements in a multilingual society De Lange, Johannes Phillipus (Janus) Spangberg, Emanuel Bylund Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of General Linguistics. Multilingualism -- Social aspects Judgment (Ethics) Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers Sociolinguistics UCTD Foreign language effect Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Decision-making is an activity that every human undertakes daily. There are certainfactors that can influence the decision-making process, such as cultural aspects, socioeconomic situation, and educational background. Evidence over the last decade havepointed to language playing a role in the decisions we make. Thus, this study set out toexplore the effects of language on the decision-making process by investigating moraljudgements in a multilingual society. More specifically, it aimed to answer the question“Does such an effect occur in rich multilingual societies?” Previous research on this topichas concentrated on less linguistically diverse contexts, making this study unique. Theirevidence also points to the importance of proficiency, age of acquisition, and frequencyof use of the language in question. Given this study was set in a rich multilingual society,it provides insightful evidence regarding these factors.The data of 160 participants were collected, consisting mostly of universityundergraduates. These individuals can be considered highly multilingual because of thecontext in which data was collected and the language profiles reported by participants.Participants were isiXhosa native speakers who also spoke English. The conventionaldilemma types were used in line with this type of research, being the trolley andfootbridge dilemmas. In addition, a vaccine dilemma was used as a means to provide ascenario that participants are likely more familiar with in light of the recent pandemic.Data analysis was approached in the classical way. Bayesian statistics were also used.This is an approach that only one other study has recently done in this line of research.Furthermore, exploratory analyses were conducted to investigate the language factors thathave stood out as important, being proficiency, age of acquisition, and frequency of use.For both language conditions, participants more frequently chose the utilitarian responsefor the trolley dilemma. This trend is observed in the reverse for the footbridge andvaccine dilemmas to which participants more frequently responded with the deontologicalresponse. As a result, no difference was observed in response patters between the twolanguage conditions. The exploratory analysis revealed that age of acquisition correlatedwith dilemma response, but only for the trolley dilemma. Inconclusion, this study did notreplicate previous findings of a language effect. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Besluitneming is 'n aktiwiteit wat elke mens daagliks onderneem. Daar is sekere faktore wat die besluitnemingsproses kan beïnvloed, soos kulturele aspekte, sosio-ekonomiese situasie en opvoedkundige agtergrond. Bewyse oor die afgelope dekade het daarop gewys dat taal 'n rol speel in die besluite wat ons neem. Hierdie studie het dus ten doel gehad om die uitwerking van taal op die besluitnemingsproses te ondersoek deur morele oordele in 'n veeltalige samelewing te ondersoek. Meer spesifiek het dit ten doel gehad om die vraag te beantwoord: "Kom so 'n effek voor in ryk veeltalige gemeenskappe?" Vorige navorsing oor hierdie onderwerp het op minder linguisties diverse kontekste gekonsentreer, wat hierdie studie uniek maak. Hulle bewyse dui ook op die belangrikheid van vaardigheid, ouderdom van aanleer en frekwensie van gebruik van die betrokke taal. Aangesien hierdie studie in 'n ryk veeltalige gemeenskap afgelê is, verskaf dit insiggewende bewyse rakende hierdie faktore. Die data van 160 deelnemers is ingesamel, wat hoofsaaklik uit voorgraadse universiteitstudente bestaan. Hierdie individue kan as hoogs veeltalig beskou word vanweë die konteks waarin data ingesamel is en die taalprofiele wat deur deelnemers gerapporteer is. Deelnemers was isiXhosa-moedertaalsprekers wat ook Engels magtig was. Die konvensionele dilemmatipes is in ooreenstemming met hierdie tipe navorsing gebruik, synde die trollie- en voetbrug-dilemmas. Daarbenewens is 'n entstofdilemma gebruik as 'n manier om 'n scenario te verskaf waarmee deelnemers waarskynlik meer vertroud is in die lig van die onlangse pandemie. Data-analise is op die klassieke manier benader. Bayesiese statistieke is ook gebruik. Dit is 'n benadering wat slegs een ander studie onlangs in hierdie navorsingslyn gedoen het. Verder is verkennende ontledings gedoen om die taalfaktore wat as belangrik uitgestaan het, naamlik vaardigheid, ouderdom van aanleer en frekwensie van gebruik, te ondersoek. Vir beide taaltoestande het deelnemers meer gereeld die utilitaristiese reaksie vir die trollie-dilemma gekies. Hierdie tendens word omgekeerd waargeneem vir die voetbrugen entstofdilemmas waarop deelnemers meer gereeld met die deontologiese reaksie gereageer het. Gevolglik is geen verskil in reaksiepatrone tussen die twee taaltoestande waargeneem nie. Die verkennende analise het aan die lig gebring dat ouderdom van verkryging gekorreleer is met dilemma reaksie, maar slegs vir die trollie dilemma. Ten slotte, hierdie studie het nie vorige bevindings van 'n taaleffek herhaal nie. Masters 2023-03-07T08:44:36Z 2023-08-30T13:14:07Z 2023-03 2023-03-07T08:44:36Z 2023-08-31T09:18:38Z 2023-03-07T08:44:36Z 2023-08-31T09:18:38Z 2023-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/128411 en Stellenbosch University application/pdf vi, 131 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Multilingualism -- Social aspects Judgment (Ethics) Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers Sociolinguistics UCTD Foreign language effect De Lange, Johannes Phillipus (Janus) Moral judgements in a multilingual society |
| title | Moral judgements in a multilingual society |
| title_full | Moral judgements in a multilingual society |
| title_fullStr | Moral judgements in a multilingual society |
| title_full_unstemmed | Moral judgements in a multilingual society |
| title_short | Moral judgements in a multilingual society |
| title_sort | moral judgements in a multilingual society |
| topic | Multilingualism -- Social aspects Judgment (Ethics) Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers Sociolinguistics UCTD Foreign language effect |
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