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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"speech community"”.
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Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education
… investigate Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education. The study is premised on the assumption that the learner's non-standard language from the home environment is not accommodated in the learning environment. The language used in the classroom …
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Language variation in the Transkeian Xhosa speech community and its impact on children's education
… language variation in the Transkei Xhosa speech community, focusing on the different dialects spoken in this geographical area and their impact on the education of children. As the study focuses on children's education, it is hypothesized that there is a possible correlation between the …
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The myth of a homogeneous speech community: The speech of Japanese women in non-traditional gender roles
… stereotyped view of Japan as a homogeneous speech community. As the most revealing variable, I have focused on the speech of Japanese women whose gender roles have undergone drastic transformation in contemporary society. The research consists of two particular phases of investigation. The …
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Subjective reactions to the Antioque�no dialect in Columbia : a sociolinguistic examination of stigma in a selected speech community
… of listeners from various backgrounds to speech varieties used in Medellin, Colombia, were investigated using the matched-guise technique with a series of measuring scales. In all three dimensions of a semantic differential scale-namely, competence, personal integrity, and social …
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A Place in the Sun: the Linguistic Consequences of Lifestyle Migration to Southern Spain
… and if within such a turbulent, fluid and messy speech community, processes of dialect contact can be traced. Dialect contact research to date has usually focussed upon two distinct varieties coming together in a melting pot situation, with eventual stability. This speech community is fluid and …
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A descriptive study of certain characteristics in which the language of a class of third grade Negro children differs from standard English
… come to school speaking the language of their speech community. For some children, the language in their speech community is a variety of English that differs from standard English or what may be called "school English." These children may experience great difficulties in speaking standard …
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Monstrosities, Money, & Machines: A Metaphoric Analysis of Fantasy Football as a Social World
… and understanding within the fantasy football speech community. The findings of this study have implications for the examination of fantasy football as unique culture, for the examination of language use on podcasts, and for those aspiring to understand and participate within the fantasy …
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A critical analysis of the linguistic and educational challenges facing Border-straddling speech communities, with special reference to the Nyanja-Chewa-Mang'anja cluster of Southeastern Africa
… socio-linguistic concept, the "Border-Straddling Speech Community" in place of the more commonly used 'cross-border' or 'trans-border languages'. The concept is to be understood to refer to socially defined speech communities divided by political borders, and implicitly in Africa almost always …
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Language, identity and nationhood: language use and attitudes among Xhosa students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
… South Africa 2000, form the second largest speech community in South Africa (17.9% of the total population), second only to speakers of Zulu (22.9% of the total population). The University of the Western Cape, which is situated just outside Cape Town, was originally intended to serve only …
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Communication as a resource for Latin American immigrant settlement in the United States: An ethnography of communication
… "talk about talk" (Philipsen, 1992, p. 72) of a speech community. This speech community is comprised of Latin American immigrants residing in the United States and the staff members who serve them at an immigrant support center (ISC hereafter). I apply Hymes's (1962, 1972/1986, 1974) ethnography …
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The optimal grammar of code-switching between Kannada and English
… between Kannada and English of this speech community.
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The Dynamics of Language Use Among Rural and Urban Kenyan Youths
… in official domains and outside the Kenyan speech community. Finally, I argue that in the current Kenyan language situation there is no adequate evidence to suggest the presence of eminent language shift especially in the rural areas. In the urban areas, Sheng serves as a middle ground …
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Code-Switching among Bilingual Speakers of Cape Muslim Afrikaans and South African English in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
… traditionally a Cape Muslim Afrikaans-speaking community, and sociohistorically it is particularly relevant to the development of Afrikaans at the Cape (Davids 2011, Mahida 1993). The Cape Muslim Afrikaans spoken in the Bo-Kaap is a sub-variety of Standard Afrikaans (Kotzé 1989, Davids 2011) and …
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The epistemic status of religious symbols in the thought of Wilbur M. Urban
… level of meaning created by the religious speech community in its attempt to express the axiological character of reality. That is, religious language is referential and cognitive in that it expresses true or false judgments of reality. Religious language is also expressive of the intuition …
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"Discourse analysis: A comparison of business journalism style of ""The Wall Street Journal"" and ""The Nation"""
… and social-cultural norms which govern each speech community. In general, the analysis is based on the assumptions of ethnomethodological approach adopted by various researchers in discourse analysis which utilizes the theoretical framework of Dell Hymes' ethnography of communication. In …
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El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras
… occurring. This study investigates the Garifuna community of Sangrelaya, Honduras. The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the state of Garifuna and Spanish spoken in Sangrelaya. The intent was to study factors involved with language use and maintenance, including: speech domains, …
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The difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties: A sociolinguistic study
… such aspects as language variety, culture, speech community, lexical borrowing, terminology and language standardization are dealt with insofar as they relate specifically to language use and language change. For purposes of the thesis, some parameters are set in terms of which the …
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Nonverbal communication among Pointe Coupee Creoles
… survive longer than the verbal system in this speech community.
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LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION AFGHAN-AMERICANS AND IRANIAN-AMERICANS TOWARD DARI AND PERSIAN
… program thus far in the Dari speaking community in Fremont, California. Future language maintenance efforts may benefit by fostering a stronger sense of heritage and pride within the speech community and especially in the youth.
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