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How Neighbours Communicate: The Role of Language in Border Relations [PDF]
, 2014 This paper reports on a study of the linguistic situation in the border region where Norway meets Russia in the north. The aim of the study was to investigate language use when contact is revitalised after a long period with closed borders. The Norwegian
Olsen, Sonni
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Language planning and policy, law and (post)colonial relations in small Island States : a case study [PDF]
, 2017 Language planning and policy (LPP) in postcolonial island states is often strongly (co)determined by the former colonizer's state tradition. Comparable to the examples of the development of LPP in Cabo Verde (Baptista, Brito, & Bangura, 2010), Haiti ...
Bröring, Herman, Mijts, Eric
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Language policy and public policy: a theoretical intersection proposal
Matraga, 2016 This paper proposes a theoretical intersection that brings together concepts from two important fields of policy research: public policies and language policies.
Marina Mello de Menezes Felix de Souza +1 more
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Book Review: Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Vol. 1: Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu by Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. and Robert B. Kaplan [PDF]
, 2008 RICHARD B. BALDAUF JR. AND ROBERT B. KAPLAN (Eds.). Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Vol. 1: Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2006. pp. 239. Hb £ 34.95.
Shrestha, Prithvi
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Language planning and language policy in the ecological perspective
Glottodidactica, 2012 The paper deals with the issue of language planning and policy both in the historical as well as the ecological perspective. The problem of linguistic diversity protection and maintenance in opposition to monolingual global world is explored.
Janina Wiertlewska
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Gated-Attention Architectures for Task-Oriented Language Grounding
, 2018 To perform tasks specified by natural language instructions, autonomous agents need to extract semantically meaningful representations of language and map it to visual elements and actions in the environment. This problem is called task-oriented language
Chaplot, Devendra Singh +4 more
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Deconstructing the instrumental/identity divide in language policy debates [PDF]
, 2005 Debates about language and literacy policies are increasingly constructed at national levels in relation to their potential contribution to the ‘knowledge economy’, and to the ability of nation-states to compete economically in an increasingly globalised
May, Stephen
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Equity - some theory and its policy implications [PDF]
, 2001 This essay seeks to characterise the essential features of an equitable health care system in terms of the classical Aristotelian concepts of horizontal and vertical equity, the common (but ill-defined) language of “need” and the economic notion of cost ...
Culyer, A.J.
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Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2015 The article deals with the sociolinguistic situation and language policy in Nigeria, which is very complex because English is official language but there are also more than 500 local languages.
A A Borisova
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Frontiers in PsychologyWithin the research field of bilingual lexical representation and organization, much attention has been given to whether two languages share a conceptual system and what factors modulate the connection between this conceptual system and the lexical ...
Quanbei Zhao +4 more
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