A look at the Spanish we speak

linguistic attitudes in Nicaragua

Abstract

The present study is an approach to the linguistic attitudes of Nicaraguans towards national Spanish and the linguistic variants of Spanish-speaking countries, the overall results of this study have been compiled in the book Linguistic Attitudes in Nicaragua: What We Think Nicaraguans about the Spanish we speak (Zamora, 2015). This essay presents an approximation of the linguistic and affective cognitive perception of Nicaraguan speakers towards national Spanish, a name given to the Spanish language; idiomatic correctness and correct and incorrect Spanish in Spanish-speaking countries