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Eliminating social inequality by reinforcing standard language ideology? Language policy for Dutch in Flemish schools [PDF]
, 2014 Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, is facing a growing intra- and interlingual diversity. On the intralingual level, Tussentaal ('in-between-language') emerged as a cluster of intermediate varieties between the Flemish dialects and ...
De Caluwe, Johan, Delarue, Steven
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
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Teaching Spanish Pragmatics Through Colloquial Conversations [PDF]
marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2017 This paper focuses on the advantages of teaching and learning a foreign language with and through spoken discursive corpora, and especially colloquial and conversational ones.
Albelda Marco, Marta +1 more
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THE FUNCTIONS OF PHATIC EXPRESSIONS IN TRADITIONAL SELLING AND BUYING [PDF]
, 2016 Selling and buying is a social praxis commonly found in daily activities. Traditional selling and buying is generally conducted in local language or dialect.
Hadiati , Chusni
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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THE ART OF RHETORIC USING STYLISTIC DEVICES IN WORLD UNIVERSITIES DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP: A Study of Pragmatics [PDF]
, 2016 Debating is recognized as a way of doing persuasion in speech that deals with four points of debate pillars, for instance: assertion, reasoning, evidence, and link back.
Hamzah , Yusuf, Mita , Amalia Rosaria
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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Phonetic features of colloquial speech and codified norms of the Russian literary language
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2014 In the article differentiation between colloquially literary and bookish literary types of the Russian literary language is made by analysis of phonetic features of colloquial speech.
E A Kuvshinova
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Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные наукиThis article examines comparative tropes (metaphors and similes) expressed by lexical units belonging to stylistically lower layers of vocabulary: vernacular and jargon, colloquial speech as used in the prose of the early twenty-first century.
Zoya Yur’evna Petrova +1 more
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Cooperative Patterns in the Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
Humaniora, 2016 This article described the cooperative patterns formed in the Egyptian speech community using Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA). The data were taken by using participatory observation method through the recording and note-taking techniques.
Siti Aminah, Amir Ma'ruf
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