Défis, limites et promesses d’une sémantique historique en études ottomanes
European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2021 This article discusses the uses of conceptual history and historical semantics for Ottoman studies. It cautions against scientific and political pitfalls that may arise from a simplistic and uncritical adaptation of an historiographical trend and invites
Erdal Kaynar
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Refunctionalization and Usage Frequency: An Exploratory Questionnaire Study
Languages, 2018 This paper explores the relationship between refunctionalization and usage frequency. In particular, it argues that (a) refunctionalization is more likely for low-frequency construction than high-frequency constructions, and that (b) high-frequency ...
Malte Rosemeyer
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A Framework for the Computational Linguistic Analysis of Dehumanization
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020 Dehumanization is a pernicious psychological process that often leads to extreme intergroup bias, hate speech, and violence aimed at targeted social groups.
Julia Mendelsohn +2 more
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Understanding Language Death in Czech-Moravian Texas [PDF]
, 2007 Based on several decades of personal interaction with Texas speakers of Czech, the author's article attempts to correlate social change with some specific stages of language obsolescence and language death.
Hannan, Kevin
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How individuals change language [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2021 Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a single speaker’s linguistic innovation precipitates a population-wide change in the language, and many theoretical proposals exist.
Richard A. Blythe, William Croft
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Libraries, Language, and Change: Defining the Information Present [PDF]
, 1998 Changes in the information world are resulting in new concepts of resource sharing, new practices in the management of library resources, and an expanding role for libraries in the educational process.
Billings, Harold
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Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change [PDF]
, 2010 As early indicated by Charles Darwin, languages behave and change very much like living species. They display high diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear. A large body of literature has explored the role of information exchanges
Bernat Corominas-Murtra +27 more
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Ein weiterer Beitrag zur Diskussion über Anglizismen im Deutschen [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021 The debate about the use of Anglicisms in the German language is not a new topic. For a long time there has been a reflection on what the increasing proportion of English verbs means for German, although this phenomenon polarizes opinions in the public ...
Marcelina Kałasznik
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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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Measuring and understanding patterns of change in intervention studies with children: implications for evidence-based practice [PDF]
, 2007 Purpose: Comparisons across studies of the effects of intervention are problematic. Such analyses raise both methodological and statistical challenges.
Dockrell, Julie, Law, James
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