Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ...
Jessica Kantarovich +5 more
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The dominance of English in scientific publications: The experience and attitudes of scholars working at a faculty in Serbia [PDF]
The author of the paper studied the experience and attitudes of 30 scholars working at a faculty in Serbia. The results of the questionnaire comply with the findings of much larger linguistic and sociolinguistic studies conducted on the subject in other ...
Igrutinović Smiljana M.
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Scientific ideas of Olga B. Sirotinina and Saratov linguistic school of researching real communication units. On the occasion of the centenary of birth of the scientist and teacher [PDF]
The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the outstanding Russian linguist, professor of Saratov State University Olga B. Sirotinina (born in 1923).
Andreeva, Svetlana Vladimirovna +1 more
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Singapore, a young nation with a colonial past from 1819, has seen drastic changes in the sociolinguistic landscape, which has left indelible marks on the Singapore society and the Singapore deaf community.
Phoebe Tay, B. C. Ng
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Language Ecology or Ecolinguistics: Conceptual and Theoretical Discussions
Language ecology is the interactions between the environment and language. Such a discipline, ‘language ecology’ or ‘ecolinguistics has been founded by Einar Haugen’. Accordingly, the study aims at qualitatively reviewing the theoretical and conceptual
Nareeman Jabbar Rasheed
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The Even Language: Studying, Teaching and Linguistic Ecology Challenges
The article is devoted to the history of the study and teaching of the Even (Lamut) language in Russia in the period from the 17th – to the beginning of the 21st century. Special attention is paid to the problem of linguistic ecology. The fundamental and
A. Petrov +3 more
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Terms and phrases of the coronavirus era as a manifestation of linguoecological processes and their fixation in dictionaries [PDF]
In the modern Russian language a huge amount of terms and terminological combinations appear, which quickly come into use, but do not remain in our language for a long time. The reason for this phenomenon is that to some extent they are alien, they are a
Fomina Olga, Potanina Olga
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The year’s work in ecolinguistics 2022
Many important results were achieved in ecolinguistic studies in 2022. This article reviews ecolinguistic studies in 2022, which aims to shed light on the future research directions. It consists of two main themes. First, studies are reviewed in terms of
Ha Changchen
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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple
This study refutes the common idea that tone gets simplified or eliminated in creoles and contact languages. Speakers of African tone languages imposed tone systems on all Afro-European creoles spoken in the tone-dominant linguistic ecologies of Africa ...
Kofi Yakpo
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Decolonising the languages curriculum: linguistic justice for linguistic ecologies [PDF]
What is it? Decolonising the languages curriculum is a radical requirement to critically re-examine the way in which the languages curriculum has been formed in any context. It requires the examination of the power dynamics which have led to the dominance of certain languages over
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