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The colonial linguistics of governance in Sudan: the Rejaf Language Conference, 1928
Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2016This paper explores the discursive history of ‘language-making’ in the context of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, focusing on a significant colonial moment of standardisation: The Rejaf Language Conference (RLC) of 1928. Through inspecting the report of the proceedings of the RLC, the paper contends that this institutional event contributed to the ...
Busi Makoni +2 more
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Linguistic Creativity : Rule-Governed or Rule-Breaking ?
Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines, 2017The essay starts from a proposition taken as an axiom : the centre of the practice of language is the dialectic of rule-governed and rule-breaking creativity. The dialectic is introduced at the levels of the sentence, of a natural language, of discourse and of literary genres.
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Termium ? The Canadian government linguistic data bank
Computers and Translation, 1986Presentation de la banque de donnee linguistique du gouvernement canadien.
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The Politics of Multilingualism
2018This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the dynamics of transnationalism, globalisation, and Europeanisation on the ...
Kraus, Peter A., Grin, François
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Government performance evaluation using a balanced scorecard with a fuzzy linguistic scale
The Service Industries Journal, 2009An efficient performance measurement system is essential for controlling, monitoring and improving service quality in governmental organisations. In this study, a new ‘government performance evaluating (GPE) procedure’ using a balanced scorecard structure integrated with a fuzzy linguistic scale is proposed for measuring and improving public service ...
Meng-Hsun Shih +3 more
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E-Governance on the Web: Linguistic and Discursive Strategies
2015The chapter delves into the ongoing debate on e-governance, concentrating on the relationship between language use and other dimensions of social life such as identity and belonging as they are discursively encoded online. It suggests that new media communication may work as a tool of social cohesion and inclusion. By looking at linguistic evidence, it
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From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance
2012In January 2011, US pastor Terry Jones was barred from entering Britain. He had called for an International Burn a Koran Day on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (BBC, 2011a, 20 January 2011). In June 2011, Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah was detained under an exclusion order, barring him from visiting the UK amidst accusations of ...
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The Impact of the Linguistic Cleavage on the “Governing” Parties of Belgium and Canada
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1978L'impact du clivage linguistique sur les partis au pouvoir en Belgique et au CanadaCet article explore les rapports entre les Flamands et les Francophones à l'intérieur du Parti social Chrétien beige et ceux entre les Canadiens français et les Canadiens anglais dans le Parti libéral du Canada.
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A fuzzy decision model to E-Government with mobile technologies and linguistic information
2016 Third International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG), 2016Democracy, the people Government power, seeks that decisions are made by all citizens and represent their will. But somehow, the practice of the democracy has turned into a synonymous to elections, an act where common citizens participates in politics only at the ballot day, once every four or five years.
Freddy A. Duran +3 more
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Semantic web and language resources for e-government
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, 2011Language Technologies (LT) perform well when they rely on a previous Language Resources (LR) development. Hence, in this paper we illustrate how to build an efficient data mining system based on a coherent formalization of natural language and on a lingware (in Machine-Readable Form) built on the universal concepts of "lexical unit", "meaning unit" and
ELIA, Annibale +4 more
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