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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"language varieties"”.
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Sign language varieties of Indonesia: A linguistic and sociolinguistic investigation.
… (socio)linguistic documentation of urban sign language varieties in Indonesia, and given the size of the Indonesian archipelago, it might be expected that these varieties are very different from each other. In this kind of situation, sign linguists have often applied lexicostatistical methods, …
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The native and nonnative foreign language teacher: Attitudes toward Spanish language varieties
Linguistic diversity in the societal domain is a natural phenomenon at any level of interaction, in any linguistic encounter, yet in the educational setting linguistic diversity is frequently noticed and--rightly or wrongly--tends to be given a high degree of attention, both positively and …
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A Dynamic Examination of the Disparity in African-American College Enrollment
… standardized tests against speakers of different language varieties. Due to these differences, students perform poorly on tests using only Standard English. Compounding this problem, speakers of nonstandard language varieties often come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and many argue that …
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"Ye ken fine wha I mean": Variation between you know and ye ken in Scottish varieties of English
… has been conducted into the uses of regional varieties of you know, specifically the use of Scots ye ken, partly as a consequence of a lack of data to study (Bauer 2004), and partly due to an assumption that there is little of interest to study in language varieties of Scotland (Murdoch, …
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Northern English Dialects: A perceptual approach
… to deliver a great many benefits to the study of language varieties. It also allows examination of the underlying factors in dialect use such as the ‘beliefs, attitudes and strategies’ (Preston, 1999: xxiii) which make up language users’ reactions to language varieties. In this way it has the …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… African constitution recognises 11 official languages, of which isiXhosa is one. IsiXhosa belongs to the Nguni language family which also comprises of isiZulu, isiNdebele, and siSwati. IsiXhosa is mostly spoken in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. Those that regard isiXhosa as their …
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Variation In African American English: The Great Migration And Regional Differentiation
… American English is among the best studied language varieties, it was historically taken to be relatively uniform, and it is only recently that regional variation in AAE has become an object of sustained study among sociolinguists. There has been as of yet no comprehensive, large-scale …
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Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements
Advertisements in African languages are generally confined to radio, and in that medium are factual, dialogic and direct. When used in television advertising, however, South Africa’s indigenous languages play a less informative role, being employed rather to index a concretised African essence, …
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The difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties: A sociolinguistic study
… two interrelated issues, namely, the concept of language variety, also called linguistic diversity or linguistic variation and the difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties in terms of standard and non-standard forms, respectively. The thesis is conceived partly against the background of …
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Breathing Coloniality: An ethnographic case study of language and literacy ideologies and colonial power relations in the positioning and development of 1st generation black children's learning experiences in and outside school contexts
… study was inspired by the under theorization of language shifts and the impact that coloniality and language and literacy ideologies have among first generation black children's attending English medium schools positioning and family language planning. I draw on the theoretical framework of …
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An investigation into formal and functional characteristics of qualifications in legislative writing and its application to English for academic legal purposes.
… legislative writing as a "sub-variety “of legal language and provides an overview of the controversies surrounding the way it is written and the problems it poses to its readers. Chapter two emphasizes the limitations of the available work on the description of language-varieties for the analysis …
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Gay American English: Language Attitudes, Language Perceptions, and Gay Men's Discourses of Connectedness to Family, Lgbtq Networks, and the American South
… attitudes toward and perceptions of gay male varieties of American English, or Gay American English (GAE). Building on language attitude research in folk dialectology and social psychology, I use both quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyze interview data, an attitude and perception …
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Promoting and monitoring Low German: education policies and ideologies of language in the northern German Bundesländer
… European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML), an international treaty of the Council of Europe, in the 1990s represented a revolutionary step in the protection and promotion of endangered regional or minority languages in Europe. Its aim, which is to strengthen the status of …
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Exploring a common learning, teaching and assessment framework for isiNguni languages in South Africa
… Framework (CLTAF) for the South African isiNguni languages, viz. isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and siSwati. In order to meet this primary aim of the study, a number of objectives had to be attained. Firstly, some linguistic similarities, discrepancies and complexities based on recently published …
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Inductive Bias and Modular Design for Sample-Efficient Neural Language Learning
Most of the world's languages suffer from the paucity of annotated data. This curbs the effectiveness of supervised learning, the most widespread approach to modelling language. Instead, an alternative paradigm could take inspiration from the propensity of children to acquire language from limited …
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DEVOTION AND FRIENDSHIP THROUGH FACEBOOK: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO LANGUAGE, COMMUNITY, AND IDENTITY PERFORMANCES OF YOUNG TURKISH-AMERICAN WOMEN
… young women employ and exploit their ingroup language features as a means to construct their "coolness" and "otherness". In addition, through playing with several languages and language varieties and playing with several generated intertexts, these young women make their interactions somewhat …
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Exploring Community Creation: Conversations of Young Black Women
… available on the socio-linguistic study of language and language varieties is expansive on the embodiment of these varieties by young African men. This solidifies the notion that [young African] women are not talking – not to young men, not to each other, not to anyone. Due to the COVID-19 …
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Black South African English in relation to other second-language Englishes of Africa
The existence of distinctive varieties of second language English in Africa has, by now, been long recognized. Such L2 Englishes are known to arise in situations where the socioeconomic value of English is high, but where restricted access to native speaker varieties of the language results in the …
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A comparative study of the Morphosyntaz and Phonetics of Town Bemba and Standard Bemba of the Copperbelt Zambia
… framework has been used in characterising the language variety. TB has been regarded as an urban variety spoken in the townships of the Copperbelt province, Zambia. It had also been perceived as a 'secret language' or 'mixed jargon' used by male migrant workers on the mine, but today, it is …
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Polysynthetic sociolinguistics: the language and culture of Murrinh Patha Youth
This thesis is about the life and language of kardu kigay – young Aboriginal men in the town of Wadeye, northern Australia. Kigay have attained some notoriety within Australia for their participation in “heavy metal gangs”, which periodically cause havoc in the town. But within Australianist …
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