Linguistic landscape as a powerful teaching resource in English for Specific Purposes [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2023 The study explores the integration of linguistic landscapes into English for Specific Purposes (ESP) instruction within the context of contemporary Serbia, aiming to expand language awareness, lingua-pragmatic competence, and critical thinking among ...
Valentina Budinčić, Olga S. Zubkova
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Etyka języka w świadomości studentów [PDF]
, 2014 The main purpose of the article is to determine the means of functioning of the conceptof language ethics in the awareness of the students in Bydgoszcz. The respondents, on the onehand, signal certain questions connected with language ethics and exchange
Peplińska-Narloch, Monika +1 more
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Loanwords and Code Switches in Bashkir: A Case Study of the Karaidel Dialect
Oriental Studies, 2023 Introduction. In contact linguistics, the problem of differentiating between code switches and loanwords is relevant enough, which arises from that there are no unified research approaches thereto, and consequently nor there any precise definitions for ...
Linara K. Ishkildina
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Demography-based adaptive network model reproduces the spatial organization of human linguistic groups [PDF]
, 2015 The distribution of human linguistic groups presents a number of interesting and non-trivial patterns. The distributions of the number of speakers per language and the area each group covers follow log-normal distributions, while population and area ...
Capitan, Jose A., Manrubia, Susanna
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Functions and semantics of foreign language beauty vocabulary in the modern Russian language
Russian Language Studies, 2023 The authors examine the main principles of the vocabulary of the semantic field “Cosmetics and cosmetic products” formation and development in the modern Russian language.
Anastasia V. Ageeva +2 more
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, 2023 AbstractThis chapter provides comprehensive background information about past and present language contact and contact languages in Australia. It focuses on the historical language contact and shift processes, underway since imposition of settler-colonial society from 1788, which have profoundly altered modern Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Felicia Bisnath, Savithry Namboodiripad
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Russian Names with the Stem Balah(o)n- in Historical and Etymological Perspective [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 The article analyzes the origin of Russian personal and place names with the stem Balah(o)n-. The author argues that originally the stem in question was part of the Old Novgorodian diminutive personal name or surname *Balahno formed from an abridged ...
Nikolai M. Shvarev
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Contact Phenomena in Azov Greek
Languages, 2022 Azov Greek is a Modern Greek dialect currently spoken in several villages in the area of Mariupol (Eastern Ukraine). Recent studies in Modern Greek dialectology clearly demonstrate that all Modern Greek dialects (even so specific as Tsakonian) in some ...
Maxim Kisilier
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Temporal Variability and Stability in Infant-Directed Sung Speech: Evidence for Language-specific Patterns. [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, sung speech is used as a methodological tool to explore temporal variability in the timing of word-internal consonants and vowels.
Falk, Simone
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Language proficiency among immigrants and the establishment of interethnic relations: a comparative analysis of Bilbao, Lisbon and Rotterdam [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the increasing interest in exploring language proficiency among immigrants as a quintessential element for their economic integration in the host country, less attention has been devoted to the social impacts that destination-language ...
Esteves, Alina, Sampaio, Dora
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