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Minority languages of China [PDF]
This chapter looks at language endangerment in the People's Republic of China, focusing on three of the main factors that influence language maintenance in China today: increased contact due to population movements and changes in the economy; the ...
LaPolla, Randy J., Poa, Dory
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This article discusses some issues relating to minority language rights in general. This stems from the phenomenon of the language where English is used as the number one language in the world. Furthermore, in this article we explain the nature of minority language rights and their objectives as well as the grouping of minority language rights ...
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Altered States: Translation and Minority Languages [PDF]
Altered States: Translation and Minority Languages — The linguistic complexity of Europe is often ignored in political accounts of its translation practice. In particular, the historical experience and contemporary fate of European minority languages are
Cronin, Michael
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Kritik des neuen Kultes der Minderheitensprachen [PDF]
Die Geschichte der Minderheitensprachen in den letzten 200 Jahren ist vielerorts eine Geschichte ihrer Unterdrückung. Im Kontext der Entstehung von Nationalstaaten wurden und werden bis heute die Sprachen der Minderheiten vielfach benachteiligt, zum Teil
Gerhards, Jürgen
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Translanguaging and Social Justice: The Stance of the Minority Languages through the Lens of the Lesotho Curriculum Policy [PDF]
Translanguaging refers to both the discourse practices of bilinguals, as well as to pedagogical practices that use the entire linguistic repertoire of bilingual students flexibly in order to teach rigorous content and develop language practices for ...
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Majority or Minority Languages? For a new discourse on languages [PDF]
I propose, at least where Europe, and more specifically the European Union is concerned that the question of language is approached from the perspective that all European languages are equal and necessary in order to form and respect all the pieces which
Aureli Argemi
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Experiments in sign language machine translation using examples [PDF]
Sign langauges (SLs) are the first langauge of the Deaf communities worldwide and, just like other minority languages are poorly resourced and in many cases lack political and social recognition. As a result of this, users of minority languages are often
Morrissey, Sara
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Review of script displays of African languages by current software
All recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few exceptions. Whilst Unicode successfully handles the encoding of both these scripts, current software, in particular web ...
Gee, Quintin
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The article presents a sociolinguistic typology of languages that make up the categorical field of a linguistic minority. Meanings and connotations behind such concepts as minorization and minoriza-tion are considered, semantic analysis is presented ...
Antoine Pascaud
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QUALE DIDATTICA PER LE LINGUE MINORITARIE? APPROCCI E MODELLI PER UN’EDUCAZIONE PLURILINGUE
Il presente contributo intende fornire un quadro di analisi sulla didattica delle lingue minoritarie nella prospettiva dell’educazione plurilingue. L’apprendimento delle lingue di minoranza contribuisce ad arricchire la dimensione del plurilinguismo in ...
Irene Micali
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