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LANGUAGE SITUATION AND LANGUAGE POLICY IN NIGERIA
The article deals with the language situation and language policy in Nigeria which is one of the most polyethnic African states. Sociolinguistic situation in the country is very complex because there are more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria which speak
Anna A Borisova, Nadezhda Yu Ilina
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Language Situation and Language Policy in Sweden
The results of the study of the current language situation in Sweden and the language policy, which is carried out in the country, are presented. The relevance of the research is due to the fact that similar processes of creating multilingual and ...
D. S. Borodina
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Language attitudes in the second language situation
A distinction is made between attitudes and specifically language attitudes. The process of acculturation is dealt with and its influence upon the motivation of ESL learners. Integrational and instmmental motivation are defined.
Riana Roos
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The Language of Situational Empathy [PDF]
Empathy is the tendency to understand and share others' thoughts and feelings. Literature in psychology has shown through surveys potential beneficial implications of empathy. Prior psychology literature showed that a particular type of empathy called "situational empathy" --- an immediate empathic response to a triggering situation (e.g., a ...
Ke Zhou 0003 +4 more
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The Influence of Anglo-American Borrowings on the Current State of the French Language in French-Speaking Countries [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to describe the language situation of the French-speaking countries in connection with the massive spread of Anglo-Americanisms and their influence on the current state of the modern French language.
Tatiana N. Sharapova, Maria А. Fedorova
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The Language Situation among the Italian Community of Koper (Slovenia): Field Study Data
This paper discusses the current language situation among the Italian minority in Slovenian Primorje in Koper. During the fi eld research conducted by the authors’ team, narratives in Italian were recorded from informants. Using discursive and structural-
Alexander Pivovarenko, Gleb Pilipenko
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Peculiarities of Linguistic Situation of Multinational Guiana
The analysis of the sociolinguistic situation in Guiana, an overseas department and a region of France is presented in the article. The history of the settlement of this territory by speakers of different languages is considered.
V. A. Kozhemyakina
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Situated Natural Language Explanations
Natural language is among the most accessible tools for explaining decisions to humans, and large pretrained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities to generate coherent natural language explanations (NLE). The existing NLE research perspectives do not take the audience into account.
Zining Zhu 0001 +8 more
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Language Modeling with Latent Situations
Language models (LMs) often generate incoherent outputs: they refer to events and entity states that are incompatible with the state of the world described in their inputs. We introduce SituationSupervision, a family of approaches for improving coherence in LMs by training them to construct and condition on explicit representations of entities and ...
Belinda Z. Li +2 more
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Plurilingualism as a Sociolinguistic Phenomenon in the Modern Globalized World: A Review of Pavlo Levchuk’s Monograph “Trójjęzyczność ukraińsko-rosyjsko-polska Ukraińców niepolskiego pochodzenia” (Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2020, ss.
Oksana Kushlyk
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