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Precarious agency: The role of uptake
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a,
Ludovico Franco
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Predictors of Involvement in Head Start Services Among Diverse Immigrant Families [PDF]
Nearly 86% of Head Start preschools serve non-English speaking families. The Head Start preschool program has been shown to increase academic proficiencies in children entering kindergarten and has been particularly successful in helping immigrant ...
Leong, Anne Day, Longo, Francesca
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Creole Formation as Language Contact [PDF]
The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of ...
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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The double modal construction in English world wide
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius Islands: Creative Practices in Mauritian Creole
Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place
Gitanjali Pyndiah
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L’impact du futur périphrastique français dans les franco-créoles
Creole languages are the most recent natural languages (Khim 2005). As a matter of fact the question of their classification imposed itself very early to linguists when the language science enquired about the topic of language filiation in the second ...
Marie E. Paul
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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