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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu +2 more
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Current studies of legal discourse
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2011 The article examines different approaches to legal discourse studies in Russian and foreign linguistics, including sociolinguistic, cognitive, and pragmatic ones.
A A Atabekova, L Y Vasilenko
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Image of Serbia in textbooks for Serbian as foreign language published at University of Krakow [PDF]
Zbornik radova (Univerzitet u Kragujevcu. Pedagoški fakultet u Užicu), 2019 The main subject of this paper is a methodical approach applied to the concept of contemporary Serbian reality in a corpus made of textbooks for Serbian as a foreign language published at University of Krakow: A Handbook for Serbian as a Foreign Language
Mijaljević Katarina G.
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Precarious agency: The role of uptake
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
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LINGUISTIC VARIETY AND ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING: AN EXPERIENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2013 This article presents a survey whose main objetive was to determine whether Brazilian learners, studying Italian in formal education contexto for at least one year, have receptive sociolinguistic competence which enables them to identify the varieties of
Elisabetta Santoro +1 more
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MULTIMEDIA AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE IN SCHOOLS
This paper examines the role of multimedia in fostering sociolinguistic competence among school learners. Sociolinguistic competence, which involves using language appropriately in various social situations, is essential for effective communication and successful social integration.
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SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE AND SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECT OF LANGUAGE.
In order to maintain interpersonal relationships, it is necessary to understand culturally deep-rooted ways of politeness used within each society. It is one of the main elements of sociolinguistic competence and therefore the following chapter focuses on this subject.
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Local Tests of English in Global Contexts: A Malaysian Case Study
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global tests of English are usually used globally and local tests locally. However, this global–local dichotomy has been challenged by test localisation, globalisation and glocalisation. An emerging critical question in this regard is whether local tests of English can be used locally and globally at the same time.
M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob
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Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude, bro, girl, dear, love ...
Mariam Gagua +4 more
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Improving Chinese nursing undergraduates' nurse-patient clinical communication competence in English: A study based on a target situation needs analysis. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Liu J, Cai J, Guo S, Yang X.
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