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English-Only Language Policy: The Road to Provincialism?

open access: yesActa Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2016
In this note, we outline various possible long-run effects of an English-only acquisition policy in the European Union. The point of departure is how individual behaviour adapts to constraints in the environment.
Wickström Bengt-Arne
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Diglossia is dead. Long live diglossia? On the linguistic ideology of conservative Basque nationalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Aquest article ressegueix el discurs a l’entorn de la diglòssia en el nacionalisme basc conservador. S’hi recorda que el nacionalisme històric defensava una distribució diglòssica inserible en l’esquema de ...
Escribano, Daniel
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Multidialectal translanguaging: teacher dialects as interactional resources for supporting advanced MSA comprehension

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
This study examines how Arabic L2 teachers' multidialectal repertoires function as interactional resources to support advanced learners' comprehension of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Nasser Bin Ghali, Nada Bin Ghali
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The humorous standard

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research
Laughter has been extensively studied by Darwin (1890). Van Hooff (1972; 1989) traced the phylogeny of smiling and laughter to non-human primate “grin-face” and “play face”, which signals non-serious attacks. Human cognition evolved beyond primate “play”
Lilia Ben Mansour
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The Italian-Dialect diglossia in the city of Palermo: a sociolinguistic survey.

open access: yes
reservedThe work that I present, as explained by the title, has as its central theme the phenomenon of diglossia in the city of Palermo, in which the standard language, that is, Italian and the local dialect, that is the dialect of Palermo coexist in the
MURATORE, MYRIAM
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Diglossia in New Spain

open access: yes, 1983
I had better begin with a definition of diglossia, or at least with a description of how I propose to use the term. In 1959 Charles Ferguson, an American sociolinguist now at Stanford, published an important article (Word. vol. 15, pp. 325-40) applying
Rivers, Elias L.
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Seepage Diglossia Pakpak Dairi Language: Sociolinguistics Study

open access: yes, 2017
<p>Diglossia is essentially a term used to describe a state of the people who know and use two or more languages to communicate among its members (a society that recognized two or more languages for intrasocietal communication).
Ida - Basaria
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Diglossie et standardisation dans l'Angleterre du xie au xve siècle. Regard croisé avec la Bretagne

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique
The Norman Conquest of England (1066) profoundly and permanently altered not only the social order of England but also the English language. A diglossic relationship resulted, with Anglo-Norman French becoming the language of the ruling classes, while ...
Gary Manchec German
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