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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"standard language"”.
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Not Angry but Angy: The Rhetorical Effects of Non-Standard Language in Memes
<p>The use of non-standard language on the internet has long been a topic of controversy, as some believe its prevalence indicates carelessness or a lack of intelligence in the (mostly) younger generations who use it. Non-standard language can refer to spelling or grammar that deviates from …
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Standard Language Ideology and World Englishes: A Multiple Narrative Case Study of Immigrant Educators’ Experiences in Canada
… world has made imperative, an exploration of the language education histories and experiences of immigrant educators who use Outer Circle English varieties in Inner Circle countries. Using an interpretivist approach, this multiple narrative case study explores tensions between standard language …
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The propagation of Standard Language Ideology: exploring how a Grade One teacher in an urban, linguistically diverse, English-medium primary school conceptualises language
… to quality education in South Africa in a first language, and policy that relies upon outdated, inaccurate conceptions of language, this study looks at how a Grade One educator at an urban English-medium school (attended by a linguistically diverse cohort of mostly non-English home language …
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Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education
This study seeks to 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 …
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Sepedi or Sesotho sa Leboa: A sociolinguistic perspective of first language speakers from selected South African Universities.
… the use of two different names for the same language, Northern 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 …
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"The Treatment of Consonants in the ""ambraser Heldenbuch"""
… of vastly different dialects with a supposed standard language. Recent scholarship has shown that orthographies of the period can be shown to be systematic if individual dialects are treated separately.
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Crossing the lexicon: Anglicisms in the German hip hop community
… sphere. In order to better understand this language contact situation, this research project investigates anglicisms—instances of English language material in a German language context—in the German hip hop community, where the use of novel anglicisms is especially frequent. This …
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Traumatic brain injury : traditional and narrative assessment techniques
… executive functioning, as well as cognitive and language abilities of various degrees. Standard language tests currently focus on very specific language disorders and can not identify language disorders of TBI subjects with high-level language functioning. Although these standard tests can not …
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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
… 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 study, and two focus groups. I also adapt methodologies from social …
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Language Planning in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Analysis of the Role of Translators as Agents in Language Change
Language planning and policy (LPP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been constructed on the basis of a standard language ideology that has often excluded the speakers from the language legitimisation process. The LPP efforts for the Bosnian language have led to conflicting covert and overt …
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Capitalising on linguistic diversity via a bidialectal intervention programme to improve linguistic performance and sociolinguistic awareness in two proximal varieties
… the dialectal native variety in tandem with the standard language has shown that linguistic diversity, when recognised, respected and promoted, can improve students’ scholarly performance dramatically, while promoting social, cultural, pedagogical, cognitive and linguistic advancement. Yet, …
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A Dynamic Examination of the Disparity in African-American College Enrollment
… argue the disparity results from using biased 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 …
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Indicators of Linguistic Processing Constraints in the Narratives of Individuals with High-Functioning Autism
… The purpose of this study was to compare the language production of adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) to that of age and Verbal IQ-matched controls with respect to speech disruptions and formulaic expressions, features which indicate linguistic processing challenges. Standard language …
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Posuny ve vyjadřování kategorie určenosti v současné spisovné a nespisovné češtině
… of in/definiteness in Czech and other Slavonic languages (except Bulgarian and Macedonian, cf. Corbett - Comrie, 2002) is not expressed by articles, the present paper is concerned with the observation that in contemporary spoken nonstandard Czech a) the demonstrative pronoun ten is developing …
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What does it mean to sound African American? Teachers' perceptions of school-age children's communication
Using a framework of language ideologies, this mixed-methods study examined teachers' perceptions of nonmainstream dialect, specifically looking at African American English (AAE). Eighty-one total teachers from the local school district listened to four different speech stimuli (elementary …
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Auto-configuration of Savants in a complex, variable network
… auto-configuration problem uses NETCONF as a standard language and protocol for configuration communication among Savants. It also uses the Content-Addressable Network (CAN) as a discovery service to help Savants locate configuration information, since a new Savant may not have information …
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Lietuvių kalbos eufemizmai: raiška ir motyvacija /
… and works comparing them to euphemisms in other languages. Therefore this is a relevant study that tackles one of the least stable layers of lexis and which opens new vistas for prospective studies of Lithuanian euphemisms. The discussion of euphemisms is based on folk and mythology data which …
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European Union Accession and the Future of Croatian Language Policy
… paper examines the past and present of Croatian language policy and advances expectations for the future of said policy. I first provide background on the present state of language policy in Croatia, namely how Croatian language policy has been formulated with the intention of widening the …
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Adapting Grafchart for Industrial Automation
… market. The currently used control systems and languages for control were developed with a more static production in mind. More flexible languages and tools are needed to get a more flexible production. The flexible graphical programming language Grafchart, based on the IEC 61131-3 standard …
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Negotiating Ethnic Identity: Korean Americans in College Korean Language Classes
"Although ""heritage"" (or ""ethnic"") language has often been taken up as a symbol for group maintenance, my study shows that actual interaction with the language is complicatedly and heterogeneously experienced among the group members, especially in relation to the ethnic identity formation …
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