Norms and Authority in Language: the Case of UK English [PDF]
Sociolinguistica, 2014 M. Saraceni, J. Williams, S. Wright
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Fertility, Health and Education of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills [PDF]
Research Papers in Economics, 2015 This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on fertility, health and education outcomes of immigrants in England and Wales.
Y. Aoki, Lualhati Santiago
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English Identity and Ethnic Diversity in the Context of UK Constitutional Change [PDF]
Ethnicities, 2006 At the time of the devolution settlement in the UK, there was widespread concern that the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales would prompt a rise in English identity at the expense of British identity and, in turn, threaten polyethnic constructions of citizenship.
Susan Condor +2 more
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Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 [PDF]
The Lancet, 2018 Nicholas Steel +43 more
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Answering the West Lothian Question? A Critical Assessment of ‘English Votes for English Laws’ in the UK Parliament [PDF]
Parliamentary Affairs, 2018 In 2015, the UK House of Commons adopted new procedures known as ‘English Votes for English Laws’ (EVEL). This article evaluates whether EVEL has succeeded in answering the West Lothian Question, a constitutional anomaly arising from the asymmetrical character of governance in the UK. After outlining the historical background against which EVEL emerged
Daniel Gover, Michael Kenny
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The Illusion of Consensus: English Teaching and the UK National Curriculum [PDF]
Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 1992 Poulson, Louise
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Cardiffians’ perceptions of English in the UK
Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2020 AbstractThis Perceptual Dialectology (PD) study asked residents of Cardiff, Wales, about their perceptions of English in the United Kingdom (UK). In addition, because face to face exposure to dialect variation has rarely been included as a variable in PD studies, participants were asked about their travel experience to ascertain whether this might ...
Nicole Chartier +2 more
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A foresight whole systems obesity classification for the English UK biobank cohort [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Abstract Background The number of people living with obesity or who are overweight presents a global challenge, and the development of effective interventions is hampered by a lack of research which takes a joined up, whole system, approach that considers multiple elements of the complex obesity system together.
Clark, S, Lomax, N, Birkin, M, Morris, M
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The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK
Literature Compass, 2023 AbstractWill students raised on social media still read English literature?What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India, Australasia, the USA?What is the role of English language in relation to other global and local languages?What is the role of decolonising efforts?How do our respective state apparatuses affect language and ...
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