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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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The Role of the Mother in Lithuanian Heritage Language Maintenance
LanguagesThe paper explores the pivotal role of mothers in maintaining the Lithuanian language within the Lithuanian diaspora, drawing upon Spolsky’s family language policy theory and Curdt-Christiansen’s dynamic family language policy model.
Meilutė Ramonienė +1 more
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A spatial model for the representation of emotional landscapes
Transactions in GIS, Volume 28, Issue 6, Page 1705-1727, September 2024.Abstract This article proposes a cartographic solution to represent the emotional landscapes of evasion for a Holocaust survivor, specifically his perceptions of safety or danger during his escape. The victim's emotional landscapes are spatially interpolated using techniques for vectors of both travel direction and magnitude (of perceptions of safety ...
Christopher J. Anderson +1 more
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Remarques sur la « construction » de la « preuve » en géolinguistique
Géolinguistique, 2018 In this article, we will examine the elements that underpin the validity of geolinguistic demonstrations and discuss related methodological issues. Relying on the arguments put forward by the American sociologist Howard Becker in his book Evidence, we ...
Anika Falkert
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L’Atlas Lingüístico do Brasil : un souhait du xxe siècle, une réalité du xxie siècle
Géolinguistique, 2015 The idea of a linguistic atlas of Brazil that would depict the reality of the Portuguese language in the country has pervaded the linguists’ community since the first half of the twentieth century, to the point of qualifying for a determination regarding
Suzana Alice Marcelino Cardoso
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Géolinguistique, 2016 Most traditional atlases are based on the interview with a single informant. Would the linguistic image of this point be the same if another person (even with the same age and socio-cultural profile), researcher or group of questions had been chosen? The
Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérez
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Portuguese spoken in São Paulo State: Urban life lexies [PDF]
Linguistica PragensiaThis study unveils insights into the spatial and social distribution of Portuguese lexical forms, or lexies, pertaining to urban life in the interior of São Paulo State.
Selmo Ribeiro Figueiredo Junior
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Possible traces of Finnic influence in Latvian subdialect phonetics and morphology
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article discusses areas observed on geolinguistic maps showing Finnic or Finnic-like features in Latvian subdialects possibly resulting from Finnic influence. The Latvian dialect material analysed for this study shows that several such areas can be
Anna Stafecka
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Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015 Review This text is a review of the Lithuanian language monumental work entitled XXI a. pradžios lietuvių tarmės: geolingvistinis ir sociolingvistinis tyrimas. Žemėlapiai ir jų komentarai published in Vilnius in 2014.
Mirosław Jankowiak
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Współczesna sytuacja językowa na Litwie: aspekt geolingwistyczny i nowe możliwości opisu
Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015 Contemporary linguistic situation in Lithuania: geolinguistic aspects and new descriptive possibilities The purpose of this article is to present the latest dialectological research conducted in Lithuania based on the achievements of dialectology as a ...
Danguolė Mikulėnienė +1 more
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