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Symbolic predispositions, interests and official languages legislation: exploring the principle-implementation gap in Canada

Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2019
Debates over official languages are often intrinsically linked to questions of national identity, prejudice, and intergroup relations. However, official language legislation also has consequences for the day-to-day affairs of many citizens.
Luc Turgeon   +4 more
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Languages, secessionism and party competition in Catalonia: A case of de-ethnicising outbidding?

Party Politics, 2020
This article explores party strategies in electoral competition in Catalonia in order to test the existence of ethnic outbidding (Chandra, 2005; Zuber and Szöcsik, 2015).
Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet   +1 more
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A twelfth official language? The constitutional future of South African Sign Language

, 2020
The 2017 recommendation by the Constitutional Review Committee of the South African Parliament that South African Sign Language (SASL) be added to the Constitution as the country’s 12th official language has been forwarded to parliament for action, but ...
T. Reagan
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Si-Ta: Machine Translation of Sinhala and Tamil Official Documents

2018 National Information Technology Conference (NITC), 2018
Although Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic country with Sinhala and Tamil being the official languages, most of the population is familiar with only one of these languages. This results in a lack of Sinhala-Tamil translators, which in turn has an impact on the
Surangika Ranathunga   +4 more
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Language policies, language rights, and sign languages: A critique of disability-based approaches

Critical inquiry In Language Studies, 2019
Among the focus of language policies addressing sign languages have been efforts to achieve official recognition for various national sign languages, coupled with the recognition of the language rights of d/Deaf people.
T. Reagan
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The Official National Language and Language Attitudes of Three Ethnic Minority Groups in China

Language Problems and Language Planning, 1999
La oficiala lingvo kaj lingvaj sintenoj ĉe tri minoritataj grupoj en Cinio Rezulte de lingvoplanado, duono de la cent milionoj da etnominoritatanoj (EMN) en Ĉinio parolas iun version de Putonghua (PTH) kiel sian unuan aŭ duan lingvon. La nuna studo, utiligante sintenan/motivan enketaron kaj "pare maskitan" procedon, ekzamenis la taskojn fare de anoj ...
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‘One nation, two languages’: representations of official languages on multilingual news websites in Belarus

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This article analyses how two official languages of Belarus, Russian and Belarusian, are represented on the homepages of two national news websites through the analysis of media discourse within headlines and leads of news stories, and focusing on aspects of multimodality of websites.
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The Image of an Ideal Russian Official Reflected in the Legislative Language and National Culture

Russkaia rech, 2023
The article presents how the image of a state and municipal employee, reflected in the Russian legislation of the 18th and 21st centuries has changed over the course of years. The article distinguishes main groups of characteristics in historical and modern images: professional and moral and ethical ones.
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Tanzania: The Development of Swahili as a National and Official Language

2008
Abstract Tanzania is a multilingual nation of approximately 35 million people (2002 census), of whom nearly a million reside in the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar (Unguja and Pemba). As Polomé (1980: 3) has noted, listing the languages of Tanzania ‘is a rather difficult task’; prevalent figures are 124 languages (Batibo 2005: 155 ...
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Pergeseran Kaidah Bahasa Indonesia di Kalangan Gen Z dan Milenial Akibat Dampak Teknologi dan Budaya Pop

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Indonesian as the national language and official language of the country plays an important role in people's lives, especially in the field of education.
Gloria Wiryajaya   +5 more
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