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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"Sociolinguistics"”.
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Polysynthetic sociolinguistics: the language and culture of Murrinh Patha Youth
… therefore an innovative study in polysynthetic sociolinguistics.
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Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
… of Italian and to the field of historical sociolinguistics. The rich metalinguistic documentation, the relatively high literacy rates and the abundance of written sources documenting usage make early modern Italy fertile ground for historical sociolinguistic investigations. Moreover, …
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Communicative Inferencing Between Classroom Teachers and Limited English Proficient International Children (Sociolinguistics, Discourse)
This study examined communicative inferencing between experienced and preservice teachers and non-English speaking international pupils in three mainstream classrooms: a kindergarten, first grade and third grade. The locus of observation was a dyadic instructional encounter, in which one of the …
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Linguistic Regulation and Interactional Reality: A Sociolinguistic Study of Call Centre Service Transactions
… of workplace talk, language and gender, and the sociolinguistics of globalization by exploring the phenomenon of ‘linguistic regulation’ in call centres. ‘Linguistic regulation’ refers to the practice, now widespread in the globalized service economy, of codifying and enforcing rules for …
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Assessing patterns of language use and identity among Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town
… linguistics with focus on the specific domain of sociolinguistics.
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"""Where will we talk about these things next year, when we're not in this class anymore?"": Exploring the role of community in teacher education"
… guided by theory and research in the areas of sociolinguistics, cognitive psychology, whole language, discourse analysis, postmodernism, interpretive interactionism, phenomenology, and my own teaching practice."
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A comparative, diachronic study of television dubbing in Galicia and Catalonia (1983-2007)
… of AVT, media and communication studies and sociolinguistics, this multi-layered, interdisciplinary study explores the role that AVT has played in shaping their respective minority mediascapes and in supporting the dissemination of the Galician and Catalan linguistic standards to their …
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Student Explanations in Content and Language Integrated Learning
… in a 15-week content-based English course on sociolinguistics at a Japanese university and a teacher who taught the course. In the sociolinguistics course, the students conducted a group research project in which they carried out sequenced tasks: writing and revising a research proposal, …
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The use of Iscamtho by children in white city-Jabavu, Soweto: slang and language contact in an African urban context
… recorder. Strong attention was given to the sociolinguistics and structure of the language collected. This thesis is interested in issues of slang use among children and language contact, as part of the larger field of tsotsitaal studies. It is interested in: sociolinguistic issues of …
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Scuttlebutt: Stories
… knowledge from such diverse areas as psychology, sociolinguistics, grammar, mathematics and statistics, all assist in writing fiction. It discusses the study of ethos, pathos, and logos, as it has bearing on the writing of short fiction, and its use to foster a more effective writing process. The …
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"YO DIGO 'ESTÁ' PORQUE... ": THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE SPANISH COPULA IN A STUDY ABROAD VARIETY IN CHILE
… learners studying in Chile (N = 31). Bridging sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, it delves into sociolinguistic competence acquisition in an immersive context, focusing on copula development and use. The study collected data through a picture-based oral elicitation task and a …
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Rethinking the African language curriculum (with special reference to SiSwati) : a theoretical and empirical study
… the outdated emphasis on linguistics rather than sociolinguistics as an informing discipline and the absence of social and negative literacy skills embedded in subject content. The field study reflects an overall climate of despondency governing the teaching and learning context.
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Aspiring to be global: Language, mobilities, and social change in a tourism village in China
… thesis contributes to our understanding of the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining a tourism site in Yangshuo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. A former residential neighborhood street West Street (¿¿Xi Jie) in Yangshuo has been gaining increasing popularity …
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Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: an Examination through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
… on speech recordings is especially profound in sociolinguistics, where scholars have developed a range of techniques for eliciting and analyzing natural talk. Despite the focus on naturalistic speech data, sociolinguists have rarely focused explicitly on the management (e.g. organization, …
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Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
… paragraphs I shall attempt to explore what sociolinguistics is and what relation there is between sociolinguistics and the teaching and learning of language. The ultimate aim is to give a theoretical background which will help in the understanding and analysis of the practical problems that …
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Language maintenance and shift among the Rehoboth Basters of Namibia ca. 1868-2008
… which represents a subfield of enquiry in sociolinguistics. The language under investigation is Afrikaans in its setting in Rehoboth, Namibia. Afrikaans was maintained as mother tongue and has been the dominant language as well as lingua franca in Rehoboth for some hundred years but could …
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L'insécurité linguistique chez les élèves d'immersion française en Saskatchewan
… through an enjoyable approach. Key Words: Sociolinguistics, French immersion, linguistic insecurity, language norms, linguistic variation, sociolinguistics for change, French as a second langue, second language acquisition, French immersion ideologies
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Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint -Louis, Senegal
… lexical borrowing in the field of linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Above all, this study provides a window on the abiding theoretical problem of the study of lexical borrowings as sociolinguistic variables.
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Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit
<p>Variationist sociolinguistics is more complex than meets the eye. There are many possible explanations as to why a person uses some linguistic form over another. This paper will compare the use of the word-final /t/-release variant in the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit who were …
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