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The Deceiving ELF? Can Englsh fulfil the role of a Lingua Franca?
Lingue e Linguaggi, 2016 – The debate which surrounds the role of English as a lingua franca has been lively and extensive over the last twenty years or so. Numerous conferences and specific publications in the field testify to the interest and importance that the question of ...
Richard Chapman
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Linguistic Justice, van Parijs, and Esperanto
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2016 In the European and world-wide scenario of linguistic justice offered by van Parijs (2011), it is argued that we need one lingua franca only and that the only suitable candidate is English. In order to sustain his argument, the author has to reject three
Gobbo Federico
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes how industrial relations actors maintain legitimacy in global labor governance by investigating the legitimation politics at the International Labour Organization (ILO). Drawing on the concept of legitimacy tests, we identify three strategies that the workers' and employers' groups at the ILO have deployed to maintain ...
Huw Thomas, Vicente Silva
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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Revista de Saúde PúblicaSão feitas considerações sobre a adoção da língua inglesa para publicações científicas cuja temática focalize problemas nosológicos da América Latina. Questiona-se o fato de com essa atitude se objetiva maior visibilidade do artigo e internacionalidade ...
Oswaldo Paulo Forattini
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
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Physiology as a Lingua Franca for Clinical Machine Learning. [PDF]
Patterns (N Y), 2020 Sarma GP, Reinertsen E, ML4CVD Group.
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Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.EMD is one of the few biological agents with human histologic evidence supporting periodontal regeneration. This is reflected in improved clinical outcomes when used in regenerative surgery for intrabony defects. Despite its biological plausibility for broader therapeutic applications, further high‐quality randomized clinical trials are needed to ...
Richard J. Miron +10 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
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The Use of English as Lingua Franca in the Classes of UKM: as A Case of Study
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2020 English has for long been one of the most widely used media of communication globally, especially in the Malaysian universities. It has been termed as a Lingua Franca because it is shared with other languages which are considered first languages by ...
Anfal Sabeeh Hamood
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