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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"language community"”.
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
… differences in the Canberra Vietnamese bilingual community, with a particular focus on Vietnamese as the heritage language. Specifically, it documents the vernacular and considers key aspects of this data from different theoretical perspectives. Its main contribution is an insight into a rarely …
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"Welshness politicized, Welshness submerged: the politics of ""politics"" and the pragmatics of language community in north-west Wales"
… the normative construction of a politics of language and community in north-west Wales (United Kingdom). It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted primarily between January 2007 and April 2008, with central participant-observation settings in primary-level state schools and in the …
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DEVOTION AND FRIENDSHIP THROUGH FACEBOOK: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO LANGUAGE, COMMUNITY, AND IDENTITY PERFORMANCES OF YOUNG TURKISH-AMERICAN WOMEN
… and how they create a sense of identity and community and mediate these via this online medium in their diverse geographical localities. I start my analysis by investigating several instances of discourse and within these I focus on metacommunicative, metapragmatic, and metadiscursive acts in …
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Understanding Dead Languages
Dead languages present a case where the original language community no longer exists. This results in a language for which the evidence is limited by the paucity of surviving texts and in which no new linguistic uses can be generated. Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the meaning of language is …
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Translation and interpreting as instruments of language planning in South Africa : focus on court interpreting
… Apart from English and Afrikaans, ten other languages, including South African Sign Language, have acquired official status. This linguistic dispensation should allow every citizen access to fair justice and a fuller participation in the democratisation process at all levels. It is obvious …
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The Morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu
… or clan. First, this work introduces the Manchu language, community-related information, revitalization, and recent speaker demographics. This information is followed by the Deretu Manchu description itself, comprising a brief introduction to its phonemic inventory and phonology, and a …
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A contextual analysis of compound nouns in Shona lexicography
… terminology development and the culture of the language community for which the terminology is intended. It is a contextual analysis of compound nouns found in Shona terminological dictionaries. The study specifically explores how lexicographers together with health, music, language and …
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Learning on the Job: A Professional and Ethical Profile of Washington State Interpreters
Spoken language community interpreters in Washington State represent a diverse occupational group, and yet, little is known about their educational and training background as a whole. National trends to advance the standing of the profession through increased foundational training and certification …
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"""Walking the line"": bilingual sorbs, emotions, and endangerment in eastern Germany"
"As an anthropological study of language and emotions, this dissertation explores the local practices of the bilingual Sorbs, an endangered language community in eastern Germany near the Czech border. In the broadest terms, “Walking the Line”: Bilingual Sorbs, Emotions and Endangerment in Eastern …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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Syntactic variation in Afrikaans : an empirical study
… change in modern spoken Afrikaans. The Afrikaans language community is heterogeneous, and can be divided into different communication communities according to patterns of segregated residential settlement and limited social interaction (linked to South Africa's history of apartheid). The selection …
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Dochas is Duchas, Hope and Heritage Gaelscoileanna; Transforming Power and Linguistic Ideology
… Chapter one examines the position of the Irish language in Education throughout history, focussing on the marginalisation of the language, and current disparities of policy and practice that persist today. Gaelscoileanna emerge in response to the marginalisation of the Irish language in …
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Rivalry in International Relations: A Mimetic Approach to the Case of the Rivalry in Northern Ireland (1963-2020)
… that of territory (1964-1998), and that of language (1998-2020). In contrast to the existing literature, the MRF shows that the atypical intractability of the Northern Ireland rivalry is a product of the extreme similarity of desires, rather than of their difference. Because intractable …
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Recovering the lives of South African Jewish women during the migration years c1880-1939
… as Jewish and female, helped to build the larger community of South African Jewry and contributed to the wider South African society. The investigation is rooted in the transformation wrought in Jewish communities worldwide in the nineteenth and twentieth century through emancipation, …
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Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota
… efforts of an emergent Latinx immigrant community in Westplain, Minnesota to construct and assert their individual and collective identities within the public sphere through a range of multimodal and face-to-face communicative resources. I address enduring questions within the fields of …
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Analysis of noun + noun sequences in discipline-specific published research articles
… are more common as head noun (N2) (e.g., target language), while communication nouns are more common as pre-modifying noun (N1) (e.g., language test). The combinations of semantic categories showed that different combinations are possible. The most common combinations are communication + abstract …
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Mā te hangarau te oranga o te reo Māori e tautoko ai? Can technology support the long-term health of the Māori language?
… to support the ongoing health of an endangered language? Since the late twentieth century unprecedented and substantial social changes have been propelled by advances in contemporary technologies. Continuous connectivity harnessing digital communication, mass media and social networking has …
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Second generation internal immigrants' bilingual practices and identity construction in Guangzhou, China
… is unintelligible to immigrants who speak other language varieties, including China’s official language Putonghua. Since 2010 debates have arisen on the relationship between the state language policy of Putonghua Promotion which has been launched and implemented for sixty years and the narrower …
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