Linguistic Misogyny as a Parodic Device: Valspeak Markers in Jimmy Fallon’s “Ew!”
The aim of this paper is to explore how markers of an enregistered sociolect perceived as feminine may be recruited to portray stereotypical female teenage characters on television.
Pierre Habasque
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Языковые особенности "Дневника" Витольда Цивиньского
Linguistic Features of the Diary of Witold Cywiński The diary written by student Witold Cywiński (1887–1910) (or Vytautas Civinskis, as he later signed his work with the Lithuanian version of his name) is a unique multilingual egodocument, now held at ...
Вероника [Veronika] Гирининкайте [Girininkaitė]
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Sociolects and Registers – a Contrastive Analysis of Two Kinds of Linguistic Variation [PDF]
The paper, which is a theoretical contribution to investigations of social varieties of language, deals with two major dimensions of sociolinguistic variation: sociolectal and registerial.
Lewandowski, Marcin
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Palatalization in educated Cairene Arabic
In the speech of some educated Cairenes, the coronal stops /t d tˤ dˤ/ acquire a secondary palatal articulation before high front vowels and glides, resulting in [tj] or [dj].
Islam Youssef
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Nursing the cure: A phonetic analysis of /ʊə/ in South African English
This article is focused on providing the results of a partially impressionistic and partially acoustic phonetic analysis of the CURE vowel (i.e. /ʊə/ as in cure, tour, sure) in South African English (SAfE) and, in particular, in the main first-language ...
Bekker, Ian
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The Treatment of Geographical Dialect in Literary Translation from the Perspective of Relevance Theory [PDF]
This paper discusses problems involved in the translation of literary works that apply linguistic varieties, especially geographical dialects. It surveys selected approaches to the functions of dialects in literature and to the strategies of dealing with
Adamczyk +58 more
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El uso de las formas pronominales átonas de 3ª persona en el corpus PRESEEA-SEVILLLA [PDF]
El objetivo de este artículo consiste en describir el uso etimológico/no etimológico de las formas personales le y les en la ciudad de Sevilla. Para llevar a cabo nuestro propósito, hemos analizado una muestra de habla compuesta por 48 entrevistas del
Repede, Doina
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Cities, Language Academies and the State of Minority Languages : Observations from the Quechua Academy in Cuzco, Peru [PDF]
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Brenes, Ivan
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The Shortcomings of Language Tags for Linked Data When Modeling Lesser-Known Languages [PDF]
In recent years, the modeling of data from linguistic resources with Resource Description Framework (RDF), following the Linked Data paradigm and using the OntoLex-Lemon vocabulary, has become a prevalent method to create datasets for a multilingual web ...
Gillis-Webber, Frances, Tittel, Sabine
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Through the wall of literacy: transformative practice in social networks among GCSE re-sit further education students [PDF]
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how peripheral participants contributed to and became more central members of a community of practice based in a social network that was used to support mobile learning approaches among post-compulsory ...
Scott, Howard
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