Linguistic attitudes of the spanish speakers from Latin American countries and Spain respect to the spanish spoken in Colombia

The present paper analyzes linguistic attitudes of Hispanic speakers towards the Spanish spoken in Colombia. The data analyzed here comes from different studies (Rojas, 2014; Flores, 2014; among others), which are the Result of the research project Linguistic identity and Attitudes in Spanish--‐ speaking Latin America – LIAS, Funded by The Research Council of Norway. That project analyzes 8000 surveys (400 per country) applied in the capital city of 20 Hispanic countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Espana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. The present paper includes a quantitative analysis focused on The emerging categories of correctness, unity, otherness, media, and associations between features and speakers. Also it includes a qualitative analysis focused on the emerging categories of pronunciation, understanding, affection, politeness, education and culture, identity and standard variety.