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Linguistic Interventions and Transformative Communicative Disruption [PDF]
, 2020 What words we use, and what meanings they have, is important. We shouldn't use slurs; we should use 'rape' to include spousal rape (for centuries we didn’t); we should have a word which picks out the sexual harassment suffered by people in the workplace ...
Sterken, Rachel Katharine
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Rethinking the Role of Invited Inferencing in Change from the Perspective of Interactional Texts
Open Linguistics, 2018 The hypothesis that “invited inferences” are factors in change and challenges to it are reviewed. In light of recent work on historical construction grammar and interactional discourse analysis, I suggest that at least three types of inferences play a ...
Traugott Elizabeth Closs
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ON MONITORING LANGUAGE CHANGE WITH THE SUPPORT OF CORPUS PROCESSING [PDF]
, 2012 One of the fundamental characteristics of language is that it can change over time. One method to monitor the change is by observing its corpora: a structured language documentation.
Prihantoro , Prihantoro
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INTRODUCING TRANSLATION ACTIVITY: AN IMPLEMENTATION OF LANGUAGE MANTAINENCE IN CLASSROOM [PDF]
, 2012 Multilingual communities have language shift. This ‘shift’ can change the plurality of languages in those communities; it favors the more dominant language and pushes the minority to its death or loss (Holmes: 2001).
Palangan, Barans Irawan
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Navigating Conversational Turns: Grounding Difficult Discussions on Racism [PDF]
, 2007 Antiracism is not only worth our time and attention, but also a process of internal and external transformation—of looking critically within the writing center at the same time as looking outward to campus and community.
Dees, Sarah, Godbee, Beth, Ozias, Moira
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Isogloss, 2020 The present study constitutes an exploratory analysis of the use of the Catalan constructions anar (‘to go’) + adjective and estar (‘to be’) + adjective in writing during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Marc Gandarillas
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Language contact and language change: the Danes in England
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1995 The influence of the Scandinavian dialects on English has been often studied though no significant progress seems to have been achieved. The major aim of this paper is to offer a methodological approach which can provide a description of the Scandinavian
Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño, Isabel
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The Failure of “She: An Evaluation of Solutions to Gendered Language [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis looks at the prevalence of gendered language in modern day English in North America. Drawing upon different analyses of masculine pronouns and slang, this paper argues that modern solutions to gendered language fail to come to terms with the ...
Bobbitt, Mary L
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 Gender in Chichewa is described as a complete system. First the basic data on gender agreement are presented and it is shown how the available agreement markers correlate with the noun genders (and how the system has changed in the recent past).
Greville G. Corbett, Alfred D. Mtenje
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Using Simulation and Critical Thinking in Speech-Language Pathology: A University Case Study [PDF]
, 2017 Education is changing. Virtual learning is now a common occurrence. Along with this change, more and more virtual learning tools are being used in the educational setting. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has recognized this change
Ellis, Carol M, Ph.D
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