UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE RELATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY. (English)

The paper analyses the attitudes of the University of Niš students related to the strength of the link between linguistic and national identity (at the collective and individual levels), that is, the possible dependence of these attitudes on a number of demographic variables, such as the participants' education and vocational orientation, sex, ethnicity, place of birth, education of their parents, and degree of religiousness. The research instrument used in this investigation was a designed questionnaire, distributed to students in the spring semester 2011/2012, at four faculties of the University of Niš. The aim was to investigate which attitude or orientation towards the relation between language and national identity would be identified as predominant in the student population - linguistic nationalism or linguistic cosmopolitanism. The statistical analysis of the data (SPSS) showed that the most influential demographic variable was the participants' degree of religiousness, as well as, to some degree, the participants' education and vocational orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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