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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"sociolinguistic context"”.
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Sepedi or Sesotho sa Leboa: A sociolinguistic perspective of first language speakers from selected South African Universities.
… Sotho viz.: Sepedi and Sesotho sa Leboa, from a sociolinguistic perspective of first language speakers from two selected South African universities, a university of technology in Pretoria (A) and a full-time university in Limpopo (B) ). The researcher endevoured to explore the Northern Sotho …
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Translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of diffusion of planned lexical innovations: The francophone case
… there are relationships between sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and socioprofessional variables and reported adoption, variable adoption, or rejection of planned innovations; and (b) whether the francophone translators and interpreters, schools training them, and terminological banks and …
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Performativity and gameplay: gender, race, and desire amongst a team of League of Legends players
… as a theoretical starting point, a qualitative sociolinguistic study was undertaken into the gendered dynamics of a male-dominated clan of League of Legends players. The data, collected primarily via audio-recordings of player interactions between games, is used as the basis for a …
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Nationalisme Et Littérature Francophone Au Maroc: Genèse D'Une Littérature Indépendante
… when concentrating on the post-colonial context in which they were written. My dissertation research briefly overviews the historical and sociolinguistic context in which Post-independence literature was written. The first chapter presents the process undergone by authors in Morocco, …
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A study of the historical and linguistic factors that shaped Modern Spanish
… of former times, as well as other social contexts including ruling social communities has influenced the changes which emerged in the shape of present-day Spanish. However, the findings in this analysis also show that the reasons for the acceptance of many of the structural changes have …
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The structure and functions of codeswitching between standard Arabic and dialectal Arabic
… of Arabic bidialectal speech in a number of contexts. This dissertation focuses on two aspects related to this phenomenon, namely, its syntactic structure and its social functions in Arabic-speaking communities. The purpose of this study was three-fold: first, to examine the applicability of …
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The Case for Contextual Linguistic Diversity: Language Profiling, Multilingual Identity, and High-Level Listening Comprehension Ability in South African University Students
… is undoubtedly increasing, yet some contexts are linguistically more diverse than others purely as a result of the nature of linguistically diverse communities and, by proxy, passive linguistic exposure that individuals may experience by being immersed in the contextual milieu. How …
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Individual Differences in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Effects on Cognitive Flexibility and Structure Learning
… adults have been assessed, as well as diverse sociolinguistic contexts (United Kingdom, Singapore, Greece). Finally, apart from cross-sectional designs measuring the effects of individual differences in bilingual experience on cognitive control, longitudinal or training studies have been …