Explain how you would analyse attitudes to language variation and change. in the context of Language diversity and change.

Start with the language data itself. This answer should show how the response meets the learning objective: Analyse attitudes to language variation and change.

In Language diversity and change, the strongest explanation links the answer to Analysing variation, change and attitudes, uses accurate linguistic terminology, and makes the evidence serve a clear analytical purpose. If the question is exam-style, the student should move beyond naming a feature by explaining how language level works in a spoken interaction with overlapping turns, repair and shifting participant roles.

That means connecting language choice to meaning, context, representation, audience, genre, mode or method as appropriate. The conclusion should not be a personal opinion; it should be a supported judgement about how the language data operates in relation to the task.