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Language Change And Languages In Contact
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social ScienceThe hypothesis of the history of linguistics as a succession of paradigms was more appropriate to linguistic facts and to the continuity of history itself than to a substitution of models. One of the most assiduously maintained principles in historical linguistics was the theory of the regularity of linguistic change.
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Australian College of Midwives Incorporated Journal, 1999
Language provides a means of communication. It is an efficient way to discuss ideas and information, express thoughts and emotions. The words we use and their context, can, however, alter their intent. Implicit in words and language are layers of meaning. Language is therefore powerful. Biases may be revealed, attitudes subtly reflected.
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Language provides a means of communication. It is an efficient way to discuss ideas and information, express thoughts and emotions. The words we use and their context, can, however, alter their intent. Implicit in words and language are layers of meaning. Language is therefore powerful. Biases may be revealed, attitudes subtly reflected.
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1972
One of the cliches of our time has it that the United States is playing Rome to Europe’s Greece. There is considerable truth to this cliche. Intellectually speaking, the United States was still rather provincial in 1930. In the nineteenth century there were probably fewer great intellects in the United States than in Czarist Russia, and the derivative ...
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One of the cliches of our time has it that the United States is playing Rome to Europe’s Greece. There is considerable truth to this cliche. Intellectually speaking, the United States was still rather provincial in 1930. In the nineteenth century there were probably fewer great intellects in the United States than in Czarist Russia, and the derivative ...
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2019
AbstractThe notion of ‘linguistic cycle’ has long been recognized as being relevant to the descriptions of many processes of language change. In a process known as grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning as well as some of its phonological content, and then gradually weakens, until it ultimately vanishes.
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AbstractThe notion of ‘linguistic cycle’ has long been recognized as being relevant to the descriptions of many processes of language change. In a process known as grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning as well as some of its phonological content, and then gradually weakens, until it ultimately vanishes.
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2000
How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay.
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How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay.
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Language Awareness and Language Change
2017This chapter is concerned with the nature of the relationship between language awareness and language change – in terms of interdependence and mutual influence. It aims to build on the possibility of raising the issue of influence from two perspectives: does change influence awareness, does awareness influence change?
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The Editor's Department: On Change in Language and Change in Language [PDF]
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Language for Institutional Change
2013This chapter examines language and action for structural changes aimed at ending sexual assault and intimate partner violence on college campuses. The primary focus is on language used by campus authorities in reference to institutional operating procedures involved in staff development. This discussion draws on relevant policy and research but also on
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