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Can majority support save an endangered language? A case study of language attitudes in Guernsey [PDF]

, 2013
Many studies of minority language revitalisation focus on the attitudes and perceptions of minorities, but not on those of majority group members. This paper discusses the implications of these issues, and presents research into majority andf minority ...
Baker C., Cooper R. L., Crossan R.-M., Dorian N. C., Ellis P. B., Fennell D., Ferguson C. F., Fishbein M., Gallienne W. T., Gardner R. C., Garrett P., Grenoble L. A., Jones M. C., Jones M. C., Julia Sallabank, Marquis Y., Milroy L., Métivier G., Potter J., Price G., Priestly T., Romaine S., Ryan E. B., Spence N. C. W., Spolsky B., Urtéaga E., Williamson R. C., Youngman M. B.   +27 more
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“Why Gypsies and Albanians do not have their own letters”. Greek attitudes towards neighbouring languages during the 19th century

Slavia Meridionalis, 2015
“Why Gypsies and Albanians do not have their own letters”. Greek attitudes towards neighbouring languages during the 19th century In this article several aspects of the Greek attitudes towards neighbours’ languages during the 19th century are presented
Doris Kyriazis
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Czech gender linguistics: Topics, attitudes, perspectives

Slovenščina 2.0: empirical, applied and interdisciplinary research, 2020
The aim of the present article is to analyse the existing publications dealing with Czech gender linguistics, and attitudes of their authors. Firstly, the authors of the article present an overview of the development of the discipline, beginning with its rejection to today’s acceptance.
Vít Kolek, Jana Valdrová
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Identidades gramaticales: perspectivas estudiantiles hacia el a prendizaje y uso de gramática en una clase de SHL

EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2015
Serving as a complement to previous studies that deal with student perspectives and attitudes (Ducar, 2008), this study highlights the voices of students of Spanish as a Heritage Language with the purpose of improving grammar instruction.
Molly Perara-Lunde, Fernando Melero-García   +1 more
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Nous parlants de basc: identitat i legitimitat

Digithum, 2014
En els últims 40 anys el nombre de bascoparlants ha crescut molt a causa, sobretot, de l'augment dels nous parlants o, utilitzant la terminologia en basc, euskaldunberris, definits aquí com totes aquelles persones que han après aquesta llengua per un ...
Ane Ortega, Estibaliz Amorrortu, Jone Goirigolzarri, Jacqueline Urla, Belen Uranga   +4 more
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]

, 2018
This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
Andersen, Buchstaller, Gadet, Genette, Genette, Labov, Morel, Rodriguez, Rosier, Trimaille, Wiemer, Yaguello   +11 more
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A sociolinguistic study of taboo expressions in Spanish from Spain: usage and attitudes [PDF]

Estudios Interlingüísticos, 2022
The present study investigates the sociolinguistic variation of genitalia-related taboo expressions across gender, age and level of education with the purpose of unveiling how these variables affect the use of and attitudes towards said expressions.
Marta Sánchez Cócera, Inés de la Villa Vecilla   +1 more
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Internal linguistic discrimination: A survey of bilingual teachers’ language attitudes toward their heritage students’ Spanish

Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This study examined the presence of internal linguistic discrimination -i.e., the negative reaction of Spanish speakers towards the varieties of Spanish spoken by heritage speakers- among bilingual teachers in a school district in Texas.
Diego Román, Alberto Pastor, D. Basaraba   +2 more
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The role of individual and social variables in task performance. [PDF]

, 2000
This paper reports on a data-based study in which we explored - as part of a larger-scale British-Hungarian research project - the effects of a number of affective and social variables on foreign language (L2) learners’ engagement in oral argumentative ...
Bronfenbrenner, U., Bygate, M., Candlin, C. N., Cohen, E., Crookes, G., Crookes, G., Dörnyei, Z., Dörnyei, Z., Dörnyei, Z., Dörnyei, Z., Ehrman, M. E., Forsyth, D. R., Gardner, R. C., Judit Kormos, Julkunen, K., McCroskey, J. C., Plough, I., Schmuck, R. A., Skehan, P., Williams, M., Willis, J., Winne, P. H., Zimmerman, B. J., Zoltán Dörnyei   +23 more
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Patient access to clinical notes in oncology: A mixed method analysis of oncologists' attitudes and linguistic characteristics towards notes.

Patient Education and Counseling, 2019
BACKGROUND Providers have expressed concern about patient access to clinical notes. There is the possibility that providers may linguistically censor notes knowing that patients have access.
J. Alpert, B. Morris, Maria D Thomson, K. Matin, R. Sabo, Richard F Brown   +5 more
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