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Language Choice and Language Shift in Language and Sex

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Expressiveness and language choice

Data & Knowledge Engineering, 1985
Abstract Specialized languages are often more appropriate than general languages for expressing certain information. However, specialized languages must be chosen carefully because they do not allow all sets of facts to be stated. This paper considers the problems associated with choosing among specialized languages.
Jock D. Mackinlay, Michael R. Genesereth
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Language Choice

2000
Abstract During the process oflanguage acquisition, children have to learn to use language appropriately. As their linguistic repertoire expands to the point where it con tains more than one variety or style (for monolinguals) and more than one lan guage (for bilinguals), the child needs to learn under what circumstances to choose one ...
Margaret deuchar, Suzanne Quay
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THE POLITICS OF CODESWITCHING AND LANGUAGE CHOICE

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Using data from ethnographic studies of the use of French and English in Ontario and Quebec (Canada) in a variety of settings (hospital, factory, school, etc.) over the period 1978–1990, I discuss language choice as a political strategy, especially as a strategy of ethnic mobilisation.
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THE CHOICE OF STANDARDS FOR A REPORTING LANGUAGE

Mathematical Logic in Asia, 2005
The problem of information exchange arises in many contexts, ranging from computer science to linguistics to financial accounting. One aspect of this problem is the choice of whether to use a single standard for all users of information or whether to use different languages for different audiences; this has been of particular interest in international ...
Michal Walicki   +2 more
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Choice of Languages

1983
Even the technical working languages of Part I were formalized fragments of natural language. The actual variety of temporal expressions is much greater, however, if only because of the interaction between temporal expressions and other linguistic constructions. A short reconnaissance will be made here.
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