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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Geolinguistics: The Incorporation of Geographic Information Systems and Science [PDF]

open access: yes
Modern geographic information systems (GIS) and its incorporated spatial analysis tools allow sophisticated and efficient analysis of spatial data by researchers in many fields .
Hayes, James J., Hoch, Shawn
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L’utilisation pédagogique des textes du concours Ar Falz

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 2004
This article uses an original medium for dialectological study: the essays of Breton-speaking children who do not master the spelling of the Breton language, written between 1952 and 1965 as part of the inter-school competitions organised by the Ar Falz ...
Nelly Blanchard
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of the Mother in Lithuanian Heritage Language Maintenance

open access: yesLanguages
The 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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La dialectologie et la géolinguistique bougent encore !

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 2004
The first twelve issues of La Bretagne Linguistique reflected the study and reflection days of the Groupe de recherche sur l'économie linguistique de la Bretagne, founded in 1984. They were mainly devoted to sociolinguistics.
Jean Le Dû
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A spatial model for the representation of emotional landscapes

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Geolinguistics of a variable rule

open access: yes, 1980
Dialect geography stands at the periphery of modern linguistics. However, recent developments in urban dialectology, human geography, and especially variation theory provide new perspectives, methodologies and hypotheses for studying the geographical ...
Chambers, J. K.
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Remarques sur la « construction » de la « preuve » en géolinguistique

open access: yesGéolinguistique, 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
doaj   +1 more source

L’Atlas Lingüístico do Brasil : un souhait du xxe siècle, une réalité du xxie siècle

open access: yesGéolinguistique, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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