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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"language choices"”.
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Dynamic Bilingualism Within School Counselors Who Were Former Bilingual Teachers: Language Choices and Language Ideological Stances
… interview based study that examines the language ideological stances of former bilingual educators who now serve as school counselors. Data was collected through interviews, artifact analysis, member checks, and analytical memos with a total of ten participants. The study revealed the …
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Exploring the positioning of multilingual Kaaps and Cape Flats English-speaking university students' linguistic choices and identities
“English is the language of the colonisers, but Afrikaaps is the language of my ancestors” -Teddy. Language ideologies have played a significant role in marginalising speakers of racialised languages within society. The dominance of standardised colonial languages has led to the suppression of …
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Language Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971
Research focused on the macro-trends in Canadian language policy (LP) has largely focused on two broad trajectories: (a) the processes of accommodation of Anglophone and Francophone communities (including the limitations of Canada's policy of bilingualism for French-speaking or official-language …
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THE INTERSECTION OF FRENCH AND POLITICS IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA A LINGUISTIC SHIFT ECHOING A NEW POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BEAT IN EAST AFRICA
… English, Kiswahili, and the re-birth of national languages in French speaking countries. While French is no longer used as the main official medium of instruction in countries such as Rwanda, multilingualism has favored English speaking neighbors to make progress into the Francophone region. This …
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Animated Films and Linguistic Stereotypes: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Accent Use in Disney Animated Films
… films produced by Disney Studios to examine the language choices concerning accent use. Results show that these films convey language ideologies in animated cartoons through the use of accents, and the portrayal of these accents can reproduce and sustain language-based stereotypes of the groups …
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Becoming Deaf in the Posthuman Era: Posthumanism, Arts-Based Research and Deaf Education
… presently mired in binarized thinking concerning language choices. The ontologies, epistemologies, research methodologies and pedagogy associated with posthumanism propose a radical shift in thinking about what it means to educate deaf adolescents who struggle to acquire English as an additional …
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Transmission de la langue maternelle au sein de familles immigrantes en Saskatchewan
Language transmission among immigrants in a bilingual and multicultural country like Canada is crucial to preserving cultural identity and maintaining intergenerational ties. This study explores how immigrant families in Saskatchewan, mainly of Asian and African origins, transmit their mother …
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PetaBricks : a language and compiler for algorithmic choice
… algorithms when considering different choices for data distributions, parallelism, transformations, and blocking. The best solution to these choices is often tightly coupled to different architectures, problem sizes, data, and available system resources. In some cases, completely …
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"We ain't terrorists, but we droppin' bombs": Language use and localization of hip hop in Egypt
… terms of the content (issues and topics), forms (language forms) and musical styles that are used in the cases of four Egyptian groups, MTM, Arabian Knightz, Y-Crew and Asfalt. I argue that despite one group’s (Arabian Knightz) frequent use of English, all the groups have become localized in terms …
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Code-Switching and Gender: A Longitudinal Study of Spanish/English Speaking Fraternal Boy-Girl Twins
… to intensively examine naturally occurring child language production in the home environment. This qualitative, 5-year longitudinal, five-year case study continues the focus of previous research on child bilingualism and code-switching; however, it aims to strengthen the previously tenuous …
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Toward a rhetoric of symbolic reparations : overlapping genres in George W. Bush's apology for slavery.
… and sin of slavery, clearly separated by Bush's language choices. Examining both frames allows the best understanding of what Bush attempted to accomplish, displacing blame for a spiritual crime onto a mundane world. This conception allows him to create an America which is mythic, rewrite the …
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Immigrant language vitality: exploring the language practices of some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town
This study draws on the conceptual framework of language maintenance and shift to examine the phenomenon of West African migration to post-apartheid South Africa. The study aims to determine how immigrants negotiate language and cultural differences, how attempts to integrate into their new society …
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Representations of Second Language Writing and Writers in Academic Discourse: a Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study
… examines diachronic lexical variation in second language writing (SLW) research and the discursive representations of second language (L2) writing and writers in the field’s academic discourse as captured in a purpose-built specialized corpus of the Journal of Second Language Writing (1995-2022). …
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A comparison of Chinese and American student academic email requests to faculty in higher education in the United States
… entitlement to make the request affect students’ language choices. These findings demonstrate that Chinese students have some pragmatic infelicities in their email requests, such as underuse of internal and external modifications for high-imposition requests, pre-assuming that the requestee would …
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Language and the politics of Roman identity
This thesis examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest sense as the political and cultural practices involved in being Roman. It focuses on evidence of multilingualism: Roman identity was defined through opposition and interaction, and it is at points of …
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Using a Feminist Tongue: Exploring the Speech Genre of Sexual Violence Prevention within University Documents
… by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, language has a “taste”. Words are imbued with the “taste” of characteristics and values from past voices and understandings. In this thesis, I introduce the concept of a feminist tongue to interrogate this dynamic nature of language. This feminist …
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Searching for a pragmatic aesthetic: the rhetorical strategies of gansta rappers -- myths, rituals, and dramas of an outlaw music
… via promotion of narratives steeped in the harsh language of the streets. Through rhetorical strategies of metaphors, similes, contextual figurative logic, rappers engage in ritual and myth-building to develop narratives. In the end, examination of the repetitive themes invoked by Gangsta rap …
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CONDITIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: THEORIZING CRITICAL COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY WITH/IN THE CLASSROOM USING A LENS OF RELATIONAL SAFETY
… they create a space for incremental shifts in language choices, critical discourse, and reflexive thinking that will evoke a desire in others to advocate for social change, communicate across cultural differences, and celebrate diversity</p>
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Ghosts in the Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence in the Sea Novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville
… the presence of blacks operated to determine the language, choices, representations, and directions of the narratives that Poe and Melville set at sea. What is proposed here is a rethinking of American sea fiction from the unique perspective of its racial dynamics, especially with regard to what …
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The Experiences of Legally Married Same-Sex Couples in California
… 2) <em>Not a Simple Matter: The Complexities of Language Choice</em> -- their contextual language choices, which reflected the absence of representative and collectively-recognized language options for their relationships after their legal marriages; 3) <em>The Battle Metaphor</em> -- the …
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