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Home and School Language Practices and Their Effects on Heritage Language Acquisition: A View from Heritage Italians in Germany

Languages, 2021
This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition outcomes.
Irene Caloi, Jacopo Torregrossa
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On the presence and absence of definite articles with anthroponyms in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023
European Portuguese (EP) generally manifests a systematic use of the definite article with anthroponyms in communicative immediacy (in the sense of Koch & Oesterreicher, 1986). In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there is a well-documented variation in the
Yoselin Henriques Pestana
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Waste, Exclusion, and the Responsibility of the Rich: A Franciscan Critique of Early Capitalist Europe

Religions, 2022
Francisco de Osuna’s Fifth Spiritual Alphabet of 1542, subtitled Consolation for the Poor and Warning for the Rich, is a Spanish text on economic inequality in Western Europe.
Dana Bultman
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Teacher and SHL Student Beliefs about Oral Corrective Feedback: Unmasking Its Underlying Values and Beliefs

Languages, 2022
This study provides a critical discussion on oral corrective feedback (CF) in the Spanish heritage language context by analyzing the language ideologies of both teachers and students relating to this everyday pedagogical practice.
Sergio Loza
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Quo Vadis: el español y el Hispanismo en Sudáfrica

Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2001
Nuestro objetivo en este ensayo es presentar la situación del español y del hispanismo en el complejo mundo que ha sido y sigue siendo Sudáfrica. Con el fin de entender el papel que desempeña el español en el África austral, se traza la historia socio ...
Cathy Maree, Carmen Sánchez Martín
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Vocative Intonation in Language Contact: The Case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish

Languages, 2023
The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of Bulgarian in a discourse completion task across three pragmatic contexts: (i) neutral
Jonas Grünke, Bistra Andreeva, Christoph Gabriel, Mitko Sabev   +3 more
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The life of a loanword: A case study of le coming out in the French magazine Têtu (1995–2015)

Ampersand, 2019
In this paper we investigate the sociocultural dimensions of lexical borrowing by focusing on the diachronic use of a socially charged English loanword—le coming out—in Têtu, a popular gay lifestyle magazine that was published in French from 1995 to 2015.
David Divita, William Curtis
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La zona, una ciudad de México globalizada y colapsada por la violencia

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2013
La injusta realidad de lo que se vive en las ciudades y espacios poblacionales tercermundistas globalizados muestra ya claras señales de una descomposición social que sigue deteriorándose ante la falta de oportunidades y de educación para las actuales y ...
Demetrio Anzaldo-González
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Truth and reconciliation: Confronting the past in Death and the Maiden (Ariel Dorfman) and Playland (Athol Fugard)

Literator, 1995
Both plays deal with the devastating effects of the sociopolitical on the individual and point to the ways that factuality enters fiction, either to defictionalize it or refictionalize it.
C. Maree
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Dikeledi’s revenge: A reading of Bessie Head’s ‘The collector of treasures’

Literator, 1996
This essay focuses on the title story of Bessie Head's collection The collector of treasures and pays particular attention to the role of the phallus in the text.
M. Crous
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