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Codeswitching in Arabic reality food competition shows through the lens of partial subtitling: A case study of the MENA adaptation of top chef

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
Localized reality television competitions centering on food merge language and food to express the emotional depth that stems from identity. While many have examined the relationship between food and identity and language and identity separately, few ...
Mohammed Farghal, Ahmad S. Haider, Susan Abu Tair   +2 more
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]

, 2012
It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
Chomsky, Chomsky, Haegeman, Hiraiwa, Ingham, Jack, Jespersen, Kemenade, Kroch, Kroch, Kroch, Nevalainen, Nevalainen, PHILLIP WALLAGE, Pintzuk, Randall, Taylor   +16 more
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Is english our lingua franca or the native speaker's property? The native speaker orientation among middle school students in Japan [PDF]

, 2012
This paper reports the first empirical study to date that sought to examine the native speaker orientation among middle school EFL students in Japan. To this end, this preliminary study measured their language attitudes in this respect addressing age ...
Saito, Akihiro
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Functional Transposition of ABOUT in the 9th–21st Centuries [PDF]

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2022
The paper exemplifies a unique attempt to trace the evolution of the preposition and the adverb ABOUT as initial and transposed categories. The study focuses on the development of both interwoven categories since 850 and up to the early 21st century ...
Yurii Kovbasko
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Revisiting the 'Missing Middle' in English Sub-National Governance [PDF]

, 2010
In the light of the new Coalition Government’s proposed ‘rescaling’ of sub-national governance away from the regional level, it is an opportune time to re-consider the strength and weaknesses of the city or sub-regional approach to economic development ...
Ayres S., Burch M., Centre for Cities, the Work Foundation and SURF, Cheshire P., Conservative Party, Conservative Party, Departments of Business, Innovation and Skills, Communities and Local Government and HM Treasury, Goodchild B., Harding A., Harding A., Harrison J., Harrison J., HM Treasury, BERR &, HM Treasury, ODPM &, House of Commons, IPPR, Keith Shaw, Local Government Association, Mawson J., Neuman M., New Local Government Network, New Local Government Network, Northern Way, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Parr J., Paul Greenhalgh, Pearce G., Pike A., Robinson F., Rodriguez-Pose A., Rodriguez-Pose A., Scott A., Senior D., Stoker G., Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit, Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit, Tees Valley Unlimited, The Work Foundation   +39 more
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Cognitive Advantages of Multilingual Learning on Metalinguistic Awareness, Working Memory and L1 Lexicon Size: Reconceptualization of Linguistic Giftedness from a DMM Perspective

Journal of Cognition, 2022
The relation between multilingual learning and cognition through (linguistic) giftedness has not been studied yet in third language acquisition, multilingualism or cognition studies.
Ferhat Dolas, Ulrike Jessner, Gülay Cedden   +2 more
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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Edited by Laura Wright

Iperstoria, 2022
review of The Multilingual Origins of Standard English by Laura Wright, ed.
Gloria Mambelli
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The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik ‘I’: unpacking the changes [PDF]

, 2013
The phonological shape of the PDE first-person nominative singular pronoun ‘I’ is assumed to have a simple history. The final consonant of WGmc *ik ‘palatalises’ (i.e.
Laing, Margaret, Lass, Roger
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“A Doll’s House Conquered Europe”: Ibsen, His English Parodists, and the Debate over World Drama

Humanities, 2019
The London premieres of Henrik Ibsen’s plays in the late 1880s and 1890s sparked strong reactions both of admiration and disgust. This controversy, I suggest, was largely focused on national identity and artistic cosmopolitanism.
Mary Christian
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Beyond aspect: will be -ing and shall be -ing [PDF]

, 2010
This article discusses the synchronic status and diachronic development of will be -ing and shall be -ing (as in I’ll be leaving at noon).2 Although available since at least Middle English, the constructions did not establish a significant foothold in ...
Adamczewski, AGNÈS CELLE, Aijmer, Barber, Bellow, Biber, Biber, Blokh, Bouscaren, Boyd, Boyd, Brookner, Bybee, Celle, Coates, Comrie, Dahl, Declerck, Declerck, Denison, Fenning, Fischer, Gachelin, Garside, Guentchéva, Heine, Heine, Henri, Hirtle, Le Carré, Leech, Leech, Ljung, Mainwaring, Mair, Mair, McCarthy, Mettouchi, Miyahara, Mossé, Mustanoja, NICHOLAS SMITH, Palmer, Palmer, Palmer, Palmer, Quirk, Seoane, Smith, Smitterberg, Strang, Traugott, Trousdale, Visser, Wekker, Williams   +55 more
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