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Abstract
Na dekades van (sosio)linguistiese marginalisering het Swart Suid-Afrikaanse Engels (SSAE) uiteindelik die nodige aandag begin kry. Tersaaklike navorsing het begin om die tot dusver lee gapings te vul, maar daar moet nog meer gebeur. In die lig van diefeit dat 'n belangrike deel van 'n variëteit se beskrywing bestaan uit hoe dit waargeneem en geëvalueer word in verskillende omgewings, behoort toekomstige navorsing oor SSAE navorsing oor wat taalhoudings genoem kan word, in te sluit. Dit is die doel van hierdie artikel om die teoretiese en metodologiese basis wat nodig vir is sosio- en etnolinguistiese studies van SSAE te voorsien. Dit word gedoen deur diefaktore wat taalhoudingsnavorsing voor te hou en te bespreek hoe hulle in ag geneem behoort te word in individuele studies.
After decades of (socio)linguistic sidelining, BSAE (Black South African English) has finally attracted the necessary attention. Relevant research has started to fill, until then open, gaps, but much more is yet to come. In view of the fact that an important part of a variety's description consists of how it is perceived and evaluated in different settings, future studies of BSAE will include research on what can generally be called language attitudes. It is the aim of this paper to provide the theoretical and methodological basis necessary for socio- or ethnolinguistic language attitude investigations of BSAE. This is done by presenting the factors that underlie language attitude research and by discussing how they need to be taken into consideration for specific studies.