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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Patterns of language use"”.
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Assessing patterns of language use and identity among Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town
This study explored Cameroonian migrants language use and the various language forms they use to manifest their identity. It also dealt with multicultural/multilingual people in an equally multicultural/multilingual society - Cape Town. The study was carried out in the wider and interdisciplinary …
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Language Use Patterns Associated with Borderline Personality Pathology: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
We examined language use in daily lives of people with varying levels of Borderline personality pathology. Borderline pathology is characterized by extreme relational instability, which may be reflected in or influenced by patterns of language use. Although language use profiles are associated with …
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Language Maintenance and Shift in Sardinia: A Case Study of Sardinian and Italian in Cagliari
The conclusions of this research interrogate the accuracy and generalizability of the accepted timing of inter-generational language shift. The analysis of the data on language use in the family domain and outside the family shows, among the other things, that, although the LCs and their parents …
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Tongue -Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology Among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
The number of languages spoken in the world declined considerably throughout the 20th century. In the last decade of that period, initiatives to revitalize endangered languages rose dramatically. However, in most cases revitalization initiatives did not halt or significantly slow language loss. In …
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Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons learned from a small-scale documentation project
<p>This thesis presents a case study of a small-scale language documentation project carried out in Berne, Indiana. The goal of this project was to capture, through audio recording, samples of the Swiss German language that could be presented to the Berne community and preserved for future use. As …
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Bilingualism and educational achievement:a study of young bilinguals in Birmingham schools and colleges
This study aimed firstly to investigate current patterns of language use amongst young bilinguals in Birmingham and secondly to examine the relationship between this language use and educational achievement. The research then focussed on various practices, customs and attitudes which would favour …
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Identifying power relationships in dialogues
… can arise due to dierences in the roles of the speakers, as between bosses and employees. Power can also affect the manner of communication between social equals, as between friends or acquaintances. There are numerous potential uses for an automatic system that can understand power …
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… addresses issues associated with the impact of bilingual education (immersion and language maintenance programmes) and the vitality of minority languages. It explores multiple factors, including parental expectations, that influence the decisions of parents who have chosen to educate their …
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Rhetorical Perspectives of American Civil-Military Relations
… civil-military gap. Rhetorical analysis offers a novel means to examine the discourse surrounding the American civil-military relationship. This study uses complementary rhetorical approaches--employing rhetorical criticism of the communication surrounding the relief of General Stanley …
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Bilingual interactions, linguistic choices, and the nature of bilingual grammar: Korean students in the United States
The goal of this dissertation is to make empirical and theoretical contributions to the understanding of the nature of the sociolinguistic grammar of bilingual language use. Specifically the main goal will test the claims of a theoretical methodology—that is, Optimality Theory (OT)-inspired—that …
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Sociolinguistic effects of mobility: Iranian Azerbaijanis in the U.S.
… investigates the sociolinguistic effects of mobility. I mainly focus on three analytic dimensions of language use: (a) migration discourses; (b) language ideological discourses; and (c) sociolinguistic grammars, and claim that these three dimensions collectively present a conceptual …
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Brandvägg. Ord och handling i en yrkesutbildning
Brandvägg describes how a group of firefighters, who consistently maintain that they are “practitioners and not theorists”, relate to various forms of language based knowledge and language based “knowledging” in their vocational training, which is based on problem based learning. From a …