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Plastic brains and the dialectics of dialectics
This article advances the thinking of Lima, Ostermann and Rezende’s “Marxism in Vygotskian approaches to cultural studies of science education” and Mark Zuss’ response to their paper. Firstly, it introduces Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity, from which Hegel’s dialectic can be re-read as historical materialist self-determination in a way that ...
Andrew Loxley +2 more
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A comparative study of kinship terms in the new west Iranian languages [PDF]
This article is a research study on the kinship terms of some New West Iranian languages, including Kurdish, Hawrami, Talysh, and Tati from the New Northwest Iranian sub-branch, and Persian and Luri from the New Southwest Iranian sub-branch.
Reza Amini
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Unifying models of dialect spread and extinction using surface tension dynamics [PDF]
We provide a unified mathematical explanation of two classical forms of spatial linguistic spread. The wave model describes the radiation of linguistic change outwards from a central focus.
James Burridge
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This paper explores the perceptual power of accent and dialect through an interdisciplinary prism, which renders the utterance of accent performative and the ideological load of accent memetic.
Lydia Hayes
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Greek-Canadian Koiné: The Emergence of a Koiné among Greek-Canadian Immigrants
The present paper is a contribution to the study of a new Modern Greek variety that is spoken in Canada by first-generation immigrants who arrived in this country between 1945 and 1975. This variety displays features originating from: (a) A Common Modern
Panayiotis A. Pappas +2 more
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Zoomorphic Pattern in Collective Nicknames among the Residents of the Russian North [PDF]
The paper studies collective nicknames of the residents of the Russian North (Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions) to describe a productive zoomorphic naming pattern.
Anna A. Makarova, Yulia B. Popova
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The paper describes the new Corpus of Spoken Faroese. While the corpus is still under development with respect to content (number of informants, dialects and words), it is included in the larger Nordic Dialect Corpus, which means that all technical ...
Janne Bondi Johannessen
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The main objective of the research: The article analyzes a notion of a “national variant of multinational language” introduced by the academic G.V. Stepánov, as well as a classification of forms of modern multinational Spanish language as a linguistic ...
Svetlana Nikíforova
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Review Review on Janusz Rieger’s Słownictwo polszczyzny gwarowej na Brasławszczyźnie, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, 2014, 459 ss. The given work characterizes Polish dialectal lexis including foreign influence in the Brasław region.
Michał Głuszkowski
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Recycling a Mixed Language: Posha in Turkey
We provide a sketch grammar of a new bilingual mixed language based on data gathered through interaction with its last native speakers. The language, which we call Posha of Çankırı, is spoken in central Turkey.
Melike Uzum +2 more
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