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Linguistic commodification in tourism [PDF]
, 2014 Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalunya and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially i n multilingual peripheries, is a key site for ...
Duchêne, Alexandre +2 more
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Modeling two-language competition dynamics [PDF]
Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 15, Nos. 3 & 4 (2012) 1250048, 2012 During the last decade, much attention has been paid to language competition in the complex systems community, that is, how the fractions of speakers of several competing languages evolve in time. In this paper we review recent advances in this direction and focus on three aspects. First we consider the shift from two-state models to three state models
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Discourse-pragmatic variation in Paris French and London English: Insights from general extenders [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the use of general extenders (GEs), such as and stuff in English and et tout in French, in Paris French and London English. We aim to compare the social and the linguistic conditioning of extender use in the two languages, discuss the
Secova, Maria
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Point-of-Interest Type Prediction using Text and Images [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Point-of-interest (POI) type prediction is the task of inferring the type of a place from where a social media post was shared. Inferring a POI's type is useful for studies in computational social science including sociolinguistics, geosemiotics, and cultural geography, and has applications in geosocial networking technologies such as recommendation ...
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Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2009 O objetivo deste texto é fazer uma breve revisão de literatura acerca do debate sobre a definição de ‘comunidade de fala’ para a Sociolinguística. Tal conceito advém da necessidade de analisar e sistematizar as variantes utilizadas por indivíduos que ...
Aline Aver Vanin
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Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma [PDF]
, 2013 This article describes discursive processes by which inhabitants of the Congolese border town Goma attribute new indexical values to Lingala, a language exogenous to the area of which most Goma inhabitants only possess limited knowledge.
Büscher, Karen +2 more
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Creating a ‘new space’: code-switching among British-born Greek-Cypriots in London [PDF]
, 2013 This paper, located in the traditions of Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz 1982) and Social Constructionism (Berger and Luckmann 1966), explores code-switching and identity practices amongst British-born Greek-Cypriots.
Finnis, Katerina
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JAVANESE CULTURE DEPICTED IN THE USE OF KINSHIP ADDRESS TERMS [PDF]
, 2012 The Javanese system of kinship terms of address relies tightly on its social construction mirroring not only culture but also point of view of the Javanese people.
Zen , Evynurul Laily
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Sociolinguistic and contact-induced variation in Hungarian language use in Subcarpathia, Ukraine [PDF]
, 2012 In addition to showing regional and social variation, the language use of the minority Hungarians of Subcarpathia, Ukraine, also presents a reflection of the region’s complex linguistic history and its effects from contact with Russian and Ukrainian.
Csernicskó, István, Fenyvesi, Anna
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Elements of social representation theory incollaborative tagging systems
Transinformação, 2014 This article discusses the information representation process based on the Moscovici's Social Representation Theory and domain analysis in Information Science.
Patricia Zeni Marchiori +4 more
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