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Semi-automating the Reading Programme for a Historical Dictionary Project
This paper describes the resources and software procedures used or developed in a major enabling step towards the revision of the scholarly reference work A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAE, Silva et al.
Tim van Niekerk +2 more
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User Responses to Linguistic Diversity in Instagram based on the Language Subordination Model Process [PDF]
The present study aims to investigate users’ responses to linguistic diversity on Persian-language social media, particularly Instagram, based on Lippi-Green’s theoretical framework of language subordination. The study employs a mixed-methods design.
Adel Mohammadi, Hiwa Weisi
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Based on small case-study illustrations from a variety of European countries, this study aims to explore methodological aspects of the study of curriculum history by expanding its traditional research scope. In so doing, it is argued that sociolinguistic
Matias Gardin
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Mentawai Language Variations in the Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra Province
The language aspect in cultural preservation focuses more on the arts and social systems. In fact, language as a connecting medium for arts and social systems also needs to be preserved.
Satwiko Budiono +2 more
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Kun-dangwok: ''clan lects'' and Ausbau in western Arnhem Land [PDF]
The sociolinguistic concept of an Ausbau language is widely thought of as exclusively associated with the standardization of languages for the political and social purposes of nation states.
Garde, Murray
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Případy koexistence dvou variant romštiny na stejném území na Slovensku [PDF]
In this article I want to present some observations on the parallel existence of two varieties of Romani in the same territory, even in the same village. I worked with Gypsies in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1970.
Jiří Lípa
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Sometimes a change of a language border is linked to a change in language status of a group of diatopic varieties. The assessment of language status relates, among other things, to the existence of a common norm (standard variety) and the language ...
Rahel Beyer
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Crowdsourcing Dialect Characterization through Twitter [PDF]
We perform a large-scale analysis of language diatopic variation using geotagged microblogging datasets. By collecting all Twitter messages written in Spanish over more than two years, we build a corpus from which a carefully selected list of concepts ...
Bruno Gonçalves +8 more
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Colloquial stylization in French‑Canadian minority theatre: The case of Georges Bugnet’s La Défaite and its translation into Polish Recourse to „oralité” in written texts, which is specific to the Francophone communities in Canada, poses a challenge ...
Małgorzata Czubińska
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Seeking systematicity in variation : theoretical and methodological considerations on the “variety” concept [PDF]
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
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