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Heterogeneity is a recurrent theme and simultaneously a research focus of Cultural Studies. Not unrelated to this is the focus on complex diachronic and synchronic variability in language and discourse as demonstrated within the broad range of ...
Paul Y. Cheung
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Originalism As Thin Description: An Interdisciplinary Critique [PDF]
My essay was intended as a critique of originalism from the perspective of intellectual history. I pointed out that originalism lacked a rigorous empirical method for analyzing what texts meant in the past. I suppose in some sense it is flattering that
Cornell, Saul
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Dialect Levelling in Limburg: Structural and Sociolinguistic Aspects [PDF]
Nancy C. Dorian, Frans Hinskens
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Are ‘coercive’ language policies fair?
Abstract This paper provides a normative justification regarding the fairness of ‘coercively’ protecting minority languages in mixed societies where the minority group already knows the majority language. To do so, it adopts first a theory‐testing approach and examines, by using the Catalan case, the validity of the arguments presented in Morales ...
Joana Pena‐Tarradelles
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LANGUAGE INFERIORITY OF NON-MAINSTREAM VERNACULAR: A CASE OF NGAPAK AND BANDHEK DIALECTS [PDF]
In light of inseparable relationship between language and its speakers, the survival of a particular language is to a great extent affected by how the speakers of the language manage their self-identity and their social status with respect to their ...
Subarkah, Teguh Imam, Surtantini, Rin
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Abstract In contemporary Singaporean sociopolitical discourse, comparisons with the West—particularly the USA and the UK—have become pervasive across a wide range of critical social issues. These comparisons often serve to reinforce the political positions of the Singaporean state by contrasting them with perceived shortcomings in the Western world ...
Wee Yang Gelles‐Soh
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Language learning environment: Spatial perspectives on SLA. [PDF]
Wang F, Zhang J, Long Z.
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WOTU LANGUAGE IN ENDANGERED PHASE: SOLUTION FOR REVITALIZING WOTU LANGUAGE [PDF]
This paper explores the sociolinguistics practices of members of a minority language in East Luwu South Sulawesi, the Wotunese Community. The concern of this paper is to construct the way out of saving the Wotu language from the death language ...
Masruddin , Masruddin
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