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Testing methodological and population-specific influences on the detection of Zipf’s law of brevity in chimpanzee gestures

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Safryghin A   +11 more
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The Linguistic Ecology of Multilingual Communities

2021
Macau, like many other post-colonial territories in Asia, has been challenged to develop a language policy that will respond to the linguistic ecology of the region and position the city for future growth and development. This introductory chapter advocates an ecological approach to language policy and the advantages of ecological planning are ...
A. Moody
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The Linguistic Ecology of Singapore

2020
This chapter, which is divided into two parts, language in society and language in education, introduces the site of the research studies on which this book is based: Singapore. Since the book is on English language education, the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore, Singlish, is described and discussed.
V. Vaish
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English and the linguistic ecology of Malaysia

World Englishes, 2014
ABSTRACTThe Southeast Asian region is undergoing rapid social, economic and cultural change brought about by movements of capital, people and ideas within and beyond the region. The dynamics of independence, nation‐building and globalization have had an impact on most of the nation‐states in the region, many of which attained independence only in the ...
A. Hashim
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Linguistic ecology of Bangladeshi higher education: A translanguaging perspective

Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
This article reports on findings from a larger study that explored the promise of translanguaging pedagogies at two public and two private universities in Bangladesh. Four language learning and four content acquisition courses offered in the first year of
A. Rafi, A. Morgan
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