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Languages adapt to their contextual niche [PDF]
, 2014 It is well established that context plays a fundamental role in how we learn and use language. Here we explore how context links short-term language use with the long-term emergence of different types of language system.
Winters, James +2 more
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Academic Writing in the Baltic States
Educare, 2021 In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically grounded holistic understanding of non-Anglophone writing traditions by mapping the ...
Anni Jürine +6 more
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The Language of Liberty: A preliminary study
Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, 2021 Quantifying the moral narratives expressed in the user-generated text, news, or public discourses is fundamental for understanding individuals’ concerns and viewpoints and preventing violent protests and social polarisation. The Moral Foundation Theory (MFT) was developed precisely to operationalise morality in a five-dimensional scale system.
Araque, Oscar +2 more
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Contrasting signed and spoken languages: towards a renewed perspective on language [PDF]
, 2022 For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, was the only way to investigate the human language capacity.
Meurant, Laurence; id_orcid +3 more
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The sound of higher education: sensuous epistemologies and the mess of knowing [PDF]
, 2007 The soundscape of higher education is changing. The changes reflect an age of managerialism and an age of uncertainty. These changes call on us to give up on some of the ways we have understood knowledge in the past and prompt us to find news ways of ...
Phipps, A.M., Alison Phipps
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Semantics differences for common words between Arabic and Hebrew [PDF]
دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2021 Arabic and English languages resemble each other not only in many linguistic characteristics but also in all aspects. This can be ascribed to their belonging to the same linguistic family that they can even be deemed as two dialects of a single old ...
Vahid Safie, Jamil Yosef
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Language and the Study of Language [PDF]
, 2013 William Dwight Whitney (1827–94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. After studying in Germany, then at the forefront of linguistic scholarship, he assumed the chair of Sanskrit at Yale in 1854, with comparative philology added to his professorship in 1869.
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Studying literature as language [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1986 For the past twenty-five years or so, there has been a running dispute between literary critics and linguists on the question of whether it is appropriate to apply linguistic methods -that is to say, methods derived from the discipline of linguisticsto the study of l i terature.
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Moving on : the challenges for foreign language learning on transition from primary to secondary school [PDF]
, 2008 Europe's commitment to language learning has resulted in higher percentages of pupils studying foreign languages during primary education. In England, recent policy decisions to expand foreign language learning at primary level by 2010 create major ...
Martin, Cynthia +7 more
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