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DESIGNING SPEAKING TEST BETWEEN RESPONSIVE TEST AND IMITATIVE TEST FOR DEVELOPING VOCABULARY COMPETENCE [PDF]

, 2012
Speaking and vocabulary are basic concept in teaching learning process, a teacher should be know how to construct and designing of speaking test related to vocabulary.
Nugroho , Setiawan Bayu
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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie, Lea Meriläinen, Mikko Laitinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Sociolinguistic Study of Children's Registers in the Myanmar Language

, 2018
Children speaking the Myanmar language vary their speech as to register they use according to their social classes. Various words and expressions of register can be found in terms of religion, food, and behavior. In addition, register also varies depending on dense or sparse network of social communication, individuals and groups.
openaire   +1 more source

Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]

, 2010
One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia, Aston, Guy, Biber, Douglas, Biber, Douglas, BNC Consortium, Oxford University Computing Services., Brown, Penelope, Bybee, Joan, Carter, Ron, Christoph Rühlemann, Coates, Jennifer., Coates, Jennifer., Fairclough, Norman., Goffman, Ervin., Günther, Ulrike., Halliday, M.A.K., Halliday, M.A.K., Holmes, Janet, Holmes, Janet., Hughes, Rebecca., Hunston, Susan, Kilgarriff, Adam., Leech, Geoffrey, Leech, Geoffrey., McEnery, Tony, Miller, Jim, Quirk, Randolph, Rühlemann, Christoph., Rühlemann, Christoph., Schmid, Hans-Jörg., Tannen, Deborah., Thompson, Geoff, Torgersen, Eivind, Tottie, Gunnel., Wong, Deanna., Xiao, Richard   +34 more
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
wiley   +1 more source

REGISTERS AND ACRONYMS IN BOARDING SCHOOL [PDF]

, 2014
The paper deals with the technical terms found in the boarding school, which is used some Sanskrit words to name some places and other things and also the acronyms that sound unusual for some people but it is daily used and understood in the military ...
Mukti, Laksananing
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Learned Family on the Educator‐Kibbutzim—Knowledge, Kinship, and Social Transformation as Historical Legacy

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
wiley   +1 more source

Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Indo-Iranian *-ka-Suffix: A Marker of Colloquial Register

Indo-Iranian Journal, 2009
AbstractThe widespread Indo-Iranian *-ka suffix (also widely distributed elsewhere in Indo-European) is generally characterized as a diminutive or deprecatory marker, shading into pleonastic meaninglessness. However, it is easier to account for its extremely varied distribution and diverse functions by interpreting it as a sociolinguistic marker of ...
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Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
wiley   +1 more source

Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source