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Journal of Counseling &Development, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 133-142, January 2026.ABSTRACT Satisfaction with life is a complex construct, with many implications for overall well‐being. This study explored the psychometric characteristics of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) scores on Mexican dialect Spanish‐speaking participants who endured the 2017 Mexican earthquake.
Geneghee Kim +3 more
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Tajik Segment of Social Media: Code-Switching and Graphical Evolution
Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сетиAs the digital environment transforms the Tajik language, it turns into a new hybrid functional style that diverges from literary standards. The article describes the graphical evolution of digital Tajic, as well as the Russian-Tajik code switching in ...
Iskandarova Diloro
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Theoretical issues in the interpretation of Cappadocian, a not-so-dead Greek contact language [PDF]
, 2010 Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Region until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Only a few Cappadocian dialects are still spoken in present-day Greece.
Janse, Mark
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Speak Kazakh: Language Ideologies in Kazakhstan's Social media in Times of Russian–Ukrainian War
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 182-193, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the construction of language ideologies on social media in the context of the use of Kazakh and Russian languages in Kazakhstan following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Through the analysis of Instagram and YouTube posts and comments from popular Kazakhstani bloggers and opinion‐makers, which were selected for the ...
Alina Kamalova
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At the boundaries of linguistic convergence: Variation in presentational haber / haver-hi. A sociolinguistic comparative analysis of Spanish and Catalan grammars [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we focus on an eventual convergence outcome (the pluralization of presentational haber/haver-hi) in the grammar of two Romance languages, Spanish and Catalan, which have been living side-by-side for centuries in Eastern Spain.
BLAS-ARROYO, JOSE LUIS
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General extenders in New Zealand Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 237-252, March-June 2025.Abstract This paper provides insight into the use of general extenders (e.g., and stuff, or something and and whatnot) in New Zealand Englishes as spoken by Māori and New Zealand European (Pākehā) New Zealanders. Based on audio‐recorded data of prompted co‐constructed narrations, the article explores the types of general extenders and their rate of ...
Alexander Onysko, Marta Degani
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A Study on Comparison Between the Dialects of West Simeulue and Middle Simeulue [PDF]
, 2016 This study is about a comparative study between the dialect of West Simeule and Middle Simeulu. The aim of this study is to find out the differences between the dialects of west Simeulue and middle Simeulue.The subject of this study is all of the ...
Sariakin, S. (Sariakin)
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, 2019 Dit hoofdstuk analyseert literaire humor als mogelijk vertaalprobleem. Zelfs virtuoze vertalers zijn gebaat bij een goed inzicht in humormechanismen – om het origineel en de mogelijke vertaaloplossingen analytisch tegen elkaar af te wegen.
Vandaele, Jeroen
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Value Disagreement and Two Aspects of Meaning [PDF]
, 2017 The problem of value disagreement and contextualist, relativist and metalinguistic attempts of solving it are laid out. Although the metalinguistic account seems to be on the right track, it is argued that it does not sufficiently explain why and how ...
Rast, Erich
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