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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"diglossia"”.
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Multilingualism and Diglossia in Hong-Kong Secondary Schools: Switching effects in cognition and language processing
… this thesis also investigates the impact of diglossia, biliteracy, and medium of instruction on cognitive and/or sentence processing switching abilities. After exploring the educational, linguistic, and SES backgrounds of secondary school students in Hong Kong, Part 1 of the dissertation …
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Variation in the educated spoken Arabic of Jordan with special reference to aspect in the verb phase
… raises serious questions against the concept of diglossia in its application to Arabic. Evidence is adduced to show that diglossia is insufficiently sensitive to the facts of language; in particular, its functional basis of definition is in places mistaken. By the same token, such related …
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Kuwaiti Arabic: A Socio-Phonological Perspective
Diglossia manifests itself on various linguistic levels, one of which is phonological. It poses a linguistic ‘struggle’ for speakers in the Arab world through the functional distribution that exists between the Arabic language and its varieties. This is the main drive behind diglossia. These …
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Language Use in a Spanish -English Dual Immersion Classroom: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
… classrooms than in other program types, diglossia may be inevitable. The findings suggest that students may use more Spanish if teachers monitor them more closely during groupwork and if the school encourages them to develop investments in identities as Spanish-speakers; their proficiency …
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Language Attitudes Among Youth in Morocco
… of overt language attitudes, analyzed using diglossia and socioeconomic class stratifications, as well as reported language use, analyzed intergenerationally and by socioeconomic class. In spite of the maintenance of diglossia between local languages, namely Standard Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, …
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From Foreign Language Learning to Second Language Acquisition. The Use of Television in the Early Acquisition of a Second Language in Additive Contexts. Towards an Understanding of the Sociolinguistic, Political and Educational Factors Involved in the Development and Implementation of a Lifestyle Diglossia.
… development and implementation of a Lifestyle Diglossia. Central to the thesis is the presentation, analysis and discussion of the results of a piece of research designed to throw some light on the nature of family language policy in relation to the use of television for children's acquisition …
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The Sociophonetics of Vowel Height: A Study of Variation in Tehran Persian
… be better described as a situation of bimodal diglossia rather than a strictly binary system of H and L varieties. These theoretical tools could be applied to other diglossic situations.
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Language Attitudes and Reported Usage of the Standard and Vernacular Varieties of Guaraní in Paraguay
… seem to provide evidence for a Spanish/Guaraní diglossia in this community nor does there appear to be a dichotomy between the high and low varieties of Guaraní such as what has historically existed between Spanish and Guaraní. The participants' language attitudes and patterns of reported …
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Heritage language maintenance: a Mexican American mother's success with raising bilingual children
… bilingually in the United States, creating diglossia—with Spanish spoken at home and church and English spoken in school and community as recommended by Hakuta and others. Trained as a teacher in Mexico, this mother brought her children to full cultural literacy as well as bilingualism by …
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African American English as a Predictor of Ethnic and Ethnolinguistic Identity in Adolescence
… create AAE expressions, AAE speaker’s diglossia poses communication challenges, and AAE speakers may prefer to use dialect to convey distress. Recommendations for future research are discussed.</p>
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The inflectional morphology of the verb in modern Greek Koine : a variationist approach
… literature to the (unsatisfactory) concept of diglossia. Alternative analyses of the Greek verb inflection are examined and a number of structural places where inflectional formatives alternate are recognized. To account for all the acceptable "categorical" and "optional" combinations of …
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Case Endings in Spoken Standard Arabic
… on the role of the use of case endings in Arabic diglossia.
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Social networks and code-switching in the Newar community of Kathmandu City
… to a reexamination of Ferguson's concept of diglossia. The Shresthas, on the other hand, frequently alternate between Newari and Nepali regardless of situation. Such linguistic differences between these two groups are related to their varied social networks and relationships; the Udas Newars' …
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Language Endangerment and Maintenance in the Arbresh of Piana Degli Albanesi
… minority issues, diaspora problems, matters of diglossia and other phenomena characteristic of language contact situations, dominance and subordination tensions in the linguistic repertoire, and the impact of standardization, education, technology and media in language endangerment and …
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Bo, tu e você: vértices do triângulo das Bermudas do sistema de tratamento do emergente português de Cabo Verde
… do arquipélago exibida na literatura – da diglossia estrita ao prestígio “histórico” do português. Com o intuito de perceber as possíveis origens dos inúmeros desvios de tratamento segundo a norma padrão do português europeu, considerámos, à partida, três hipóteses: 1| transferências …
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Variation and standardisation : the case of Afrikaans (1880-1922)
… of a complex dialect continuum (rather than diglossia) until the early 20th century. The results of the quantitative analysis suggest furthermore that the process of linguistic change was slower than hitherto assumed, and variation patterns described for the late 18th century were still found …
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An investigation of issues associated with teaching and learning Arabic for U.S. students
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2011-01-21T22:47:58Z Item is restricted until 2013-01-21T22:47:37Z
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Developing a pedagogy of pluralistic linguistic expression in the first year composition classroom
<p>"Over the past 40 years, the field of composition has recognized of the importance of legitimizing students' linguistic diversity in the composition classroom. However, a framework for a pedagogy of linguistic diversity does not yet exist. This thesis seeks to provide such a framework by …
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Vitalita současné galicijštiny
Mgr. Lenka Picková Vitalita současné galicijštiny Abstrakt: Nikdy v historii nedocházelo k tak rychlému vymírání jazyků, jako v současné době. Tato práce si klade za cíl posoudit životaschopnost jednoho z oficiálních jazyků Španělského království, galicijštiny. Po nezbytném vymezení …