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Beyond “Standard Language”: Investigating L2 Learners’ Perceptions of Language Use by Native Speakers of German

open access: yesDie Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 68-79, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Second language acquisition (SLA) research emphasizes the role of imagination in language learning, with learners often envisioning themselves engaging with native speakers. However, learners’ language preferences may differ from those of native‐speaker communities.
Nick Ott
wiley   +1 more source

La diglòssia és morta. Visca la diglòssia? Sobre la ideologia lingüística del nacionalisme basc conservador

open access: yesTreballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, 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 Fishman (1967 i 1972), on el castellà ...
Daniel Escribano
doaj  

Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 12-25, March-June 2025.
Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
wiley   +1 more source

Sociolinguistic variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 218-236, March-June 2025.
Abstract Colloquial Singapore English (CSE), also known as ‘Singlish’, features a wide range of sentence‐final particles (SFP) influenced by local languages such as Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin and Malay. This study focuses on the SFP sia, a relatively new and less‐explored particle with Malay roots. We examine sia and its variants (sia, sial, siak and
Mohamed Hafiz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

More on Diglossia in Arabic

open access: yes, 1975
Diglossia has been the subject of attention of many linguists and philologists dealing with Arabic for many decades. The term itself was coined by W. Marçais (1930) and was brought to the attention of general linguists and ethnologists (socio-linguists ...
Alan S. Kaye
core   +1 more source

Language and identity in the Windrush generation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 300-315, March-June 2025.
Abstract This paper examines how the Windrush generation uses phonological and morphosyntactic elements of Jamaican Creole (JamC), London Jamaican (LonJam) and standard British English (SBE) to do identity work in interviews broadcast as part of a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.
Guyanne Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF DIGLOSSIA IN THE DAILY COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS

open access: yes, 2018
This article discusses on a sociolinguistic phenomenon of diglossia context and function and how it contributes to day-to-day transactional conversation in the language teaching in schools and society.
Didik Rinan Sumekto
core   +2 more sources

Émergence des langues créoles et rapports de domination dans les situations créolophones

open access: yesIn Situ, 2013
French creoles are one of the cultural and social offspring of the development of social entities produced by European expansion, by the founding and development of exploitation colonies and their slave holding systems.
Georges Daniel Véronique
doaj   +1 more source

Diglossic and Orthographic Features of Reading Comprehension in Standard Arabic: The Primacy of the Spoken Language

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the abjad writing system of Arabic.
Elinor Saiegh‐Haddad, Rachel Schiff
wiley   +1 more source

WHICH VARIETIES OF ARABIC TO LEARN

open access: yesHuman Research in Rehabilitation, 2020
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language is very specific for different reasons. The main obstacle in searching for the optimal and effective teaching model for the Arabic language is the pronounced diglossia, a situation in which two languages or two ...
Andjelka Mitrovic
doaj  

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