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2. New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice: Selected Papers from the Second Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education
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Research-publishing.net (France), Jager, Sake, Kurek, Malgorzata, O'Rourke, Breffni, Jager, Sake, Kurek, Malgorzata, O'Rourke, Breffni, and Research-publishing.net (France)
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Trinity College Dublin was proud to host, in April 2016, the Second International Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education, with the theme "New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice." Over two and a half days, 150 participants offered 95 research presentations, posters, and "problem shared" sessions. Following a preface (Breffni O'Rourke) and introduction (Sake Jager, Malgorzata Kurek, and Breffni O'Rourke), selected papers from this conference presented herein include: (1) Telecollaboration and student mobility for language learning (Celeste Kinginger); (2) A task is a task is a task is a task… or is it? Researching telecollaborative teacher competence development--the need for more qualitative research (Andreas Müller-Hartmann); (3) Learner autonomy and telecollaborative language learning (David Little); (4) Developing intercultural communicative competence across the Americas (Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco, Oscar Mora, and Andrea Serna Collazos); (5) CHILCAN: a Chilean-Canadian intercultural telecollaborative language exchange (Constanza Rojas-Primus); (6) Multifaceted dimensions of telecollaboration through English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): Paris-Valladolid intercultural telecollaboration project (Paloma Castro and Martine Derivry-Plard); (7) Student perspectives on intercultural learning from an online teacher education partnership (Shannon Sauro); (8) Blogging as a tool for intercultural learning in a telecollaborative study (Se Jeong Yang); (9) Intergenerational telecollaboration: what risks for what rewards? (Erica Johnson); (10) Telecollaboration, challenges and oppportunities (Emmanuel Abruquah, Ildiko Dosa, and Grazyna Duda); (11) Exploring telecollaboration through the lens of university students: a Spanish-Cypriot telecollaborative exchange (Anna Nicolaou and Ana Sevilla-Pavón); (12) A comparison of telecollaborative classes between Japan and Asian-Pacific countries -- Asian-Pacific Exchange Collaboration (APEC) project (Yoshihiko Shimizu, Dwayne Pack, Mikio Kano, Hiroyuki Okazaki, and Hiroto Yamamura); (13) Incorporating cross-cultural videoconferencing to enhance Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) at the tertiary level (Barbara Loranc-Paszylk); (14) Multimodal strategies allowing corrective feedback to be softened during webconferencing-supported interactions (Ciara R. Wigham and Julie Vidal); (15) Problem-solving interaction in GFL videoconferencing (Makiko Hoshii and Nicole Schumacher); (16) Interactional dimension of online asynchronous exchange in an asymmetric telecollaboration (Dora Loizidou and François Mangenot); (17) Telecollaboration in secondary EFL: a blended teacher education course (Shona Whyte and Linda Gijsen); (18) It takes two to tango: online teacher tandems for teaching in English (Jennifer Valcke and Elena Romero Alfaro); (19) Getting their feet wet: trainee EFL teachers in Germany and Israel collaborate online to promote their telecollaboration competence through experiential learning (Tina Waldman, Efrat Harel, and Götz Schwab); (20) Teacher competences for telecollaboration: the role of coaching (Sabela Melchor-Couto and Kristi Jauregi); (21) Preparing student mobility through telecollaboration (Marta Giralt and Catherine Jeanneau); (22) What are the perceived effects of telecollaboration compared to other communication-scenarios with peers? (Elke Nissen); (23) The "Bologna-München" Tandem -- experiencing interculturality (Sandro De Martino); (24) Comparing the development of transversal skills between virtual and physical exchanges (Bart van der Velden, Sophie Millner, and Casper van der Heijden); (25) Making virtual exchange/telecollaboration mainstream -- large scale exchanges (Eric Hagley); (26) Searching for telecollaboration in secondary geography education in Germany (Jelena Deutscher); (27) Communication strategies in a telecollaboration project with a focus on Latin American history (Susana S. Fernández); (28) Students' perspective on Web 2.0-enhanced telecollaboration as added value in translator education (Mariusz Marczak); (29) Intercultural communication for professional development: creative approaches in higher education (Linda Joy Mesh); (30) Illustrating challenges and practicing competencies for global technology-assisted collaboration: lessons from a real-time north-south teaching collaboration (Stephen Capobianco, Nadia Rubaii, and Sebastian Líppez-De Castro); (31) Telecollaboration as a tool for building intercultural and interreligious understanding: the Sousse-Villanova programme (Jonathan Mason); (32) Vicious cycles of turn negotiation in video-mediated telecollaboration: interactional sociolinguistics perspective (Yuka Akiyama); (33) A corpus-based study of the use of pronouns in the asynchronous discussion forums in the online intercultural exchange MexCo (Marina Orsini-Jones, Zoe Gazeley-Eke, and Hannah Leinster); (34) Cooperative autonomy in online lingua franca exchanges: A case study on foreign language education in secondary schools (Petra Hoffstaedter and Kurt Kohn); (35) Emerging affordances in telecollaborative multimodal interactions (Aparajita Dey-Plissonneau and Françoise Blin); (36) Telecollaboration in online communities for L2 learning (Maria Luisa Malerba and Christine Appel); (37) Fostering students' engagement with topical issues through different modes of online exchange (Marie-Thérèse Batardière and Francesca Helm); (38) A conversation analysis approach to researching eTandems--the challenges of data collection (Julia Renner); and (39) DOTI: Databank of Oral Teletandem Interactions (Solange Aranha and Paola Leone). An author index is included. Individual papers contain references.
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3. Pidgin and Education: A Position Paper
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This article presents an adaptation of a position paper written by Da Pidgin Coup, a group of concerned faculty and students in the Department of Second Language Studies (SLS). In fall 1999, the group became concerned about a statement made by the chairman of the Board of Education implicating Pidgin in the poor results of the students of Hawai'i on national standardized writing tests. The group's discussions led to the writing of this position paper. Their aim was to provide well-researched advice about the complex relationship between Pidgin and English, and the issues involved in discussing the role of Pidgin in education. (Contains 1 endnote.)
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- 2008
4. Fostering Language Acquisition in Daycare Settings: What Does the Research Tell Us? Working Papers in Early Childhood Development, No. 49
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Bernard Van Leer Foundation (Netherlands) and Beller, Simone
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The ways in which children learn a language--be it their mother tongue or their second language--can have a strong influence on their success in school. Researchers in linguistics and early child development have tried to determine the factors that can help and hinder language acquisition in young children, with some conflicting results. In this article, the author reviews the research and existing theories on language development, focusing on how pre-schoolers' social environment affects their ability to learn languages and their subsequent reading and writing skills. Because children from immigrant families and those with a low socio-economic status often have difficulty with language acquisition, this review looks in particular at language development initiatives for disadvantaged groups in daycare settings. Beginning with an overview of theories on language development, the author examines the sometimes-conflicting hypotheses that attempt to explain how children acquire their first language and how some become bilingual. Next, the role of the social environment is reviewed, beginning with the importance of verbal input for first language development, then looking at the complex phenomenon of second language acquisition. The author provides an overview of research on bilingualism and its various forms, focussing on children who learn a second language after they are already established in their mother tongue, as opposed to the less common cases of children who acquire two languages from birth. Looking in particular at research on migrant children, the paper explores the course and duration of second language acquisition, as well as the common linguistic behaviours that may arise. Conditions that influence children's adoption of a second language and culture are then examined, as well as similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition. Factors that influence the development of a second language such as age, motivation, interaction, educational style, socio-economic status, and experiences in daycare are discussed, and the impact of early language development on school success is examined. Finally, the author reviews several programmes aimed at fostering language development and literacy in infancy and early childhood in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, and concludes with a discussion of the implications of the research, providing several recommendations for practice. A glossary is included. (Contains 24 footnotes.)
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- 2008
5. The Internet and the French Language. Occasional Paper.
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Southampton Univ. (England). Centre for Language Education. and Tattersall, Alex
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This paper examines the influence of the Internet on the French language from a predominantly sociolinguistic perspective, noting the main areas of debate between francophone businesses, governments, and "Institutions de la Francophonie," while considering theories of language in contact and language policy. It analyzes a number of arbitrarily-selected, current, France-based, francophone Web sites in order to ascertain the level of influence of Internet-specific, English technical terminology on the French language (neologisms and Anglicisms, types of Anglicism, semantic Anglicisms, lexical Anglicisms, and graphical Anglicisms). The paper identifies and isolates linguistic tendencies that may provide clues about the reasons for this influence, and it verifies the existence of concrete evidence to justify French Minister for Justice Jacques Toubon's 1997 statement, "The dominant usage of English on the Internet is a new form of colonization. If we do nothing, it will be too late [...] we will be colonized." Three appendixes present a database of Anglicisms, a database of acronyms, and a list of French sample Web sites. (Contains references including books, Web sites, and dictionaries). (SM)
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- 2003
6. Global English and German Today. Occasional Paper.
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Southampton Univ. (England). Centre for Language Education. and Harris, Gabriele
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This paper investigates the impact of English as an international language on the German language and society. Even though English has influenced German linguistically for many years, the growing importance of English as a global language, and the increasingly dominant lingua franca in Europe, has drastically increased the presence of English in many domains of German life. This paper examines the role of English in contemporary German society, its impact on the German language, and attitudes toward English and the language change attributed to the influence of English. It concludes that, even though English has no official status in Germany, it plays an important role in many domains and is actively and passively used by many Germans. English has high prestige because it is considered a vital precondition for economic success. It is offered to most elementary school children at ever-younger ages as their first foreign language. English also serves as cultural identification in contemporary Germany. It is viewed as a symbol of internationalism and signals a new German identity that breaks with a nationalist past. German, like other languages, is undergoing rapid language change in response to fast technological, economic, and social change globally. An appendix presents examples of transference from English. (Contains 19 references.) (SM)
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- 2003
7. European Linguistic Diversity--For Whom? The Cases of Finland and Sweden. Mercator Working Papers.
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Lainio, Jarmo
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Linguistic diversity in the Nordic countries has several dimensions. One main division is between what the majority group thinks it is about versus what the minority group thinks it is about. This paper examines the situation in Finland and Sweden, noting implications for linguistic diversity. Finland and Sweden contain five main varieties of Swedish and Finnish: majority Swedish; Swedish Finnish and Meankieli (two varieties of minority Finnish in Sweden); majority Finnish; and Finland Swedish in Finland. In both countries, linguistic diversity is in many respects about the legal right to receive instruction in the mother tongue. Sweden has promoted active bilingualism for all migrant students during the last 3 decades. This paper focuses on the following: Finland (Suomi); Sweden (Sverige); migration patterns in Finland and Sweden; language contact patterns in Finland and Sweden; and differentiated outcomes of linguistic diversity in Finland and Sweden. It notes that through the slowly improving status and prestige in Sweden of Swedish Finnish, there is greater willingness among both Finland Swedes and Finns in Finland to connect their language policies to that of Swedish in Finland. (Contains 41 references.) (SM)
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- 2002
8. The Korean Language in America: Volume 6. Papers from the Annual Conference and Teacher Training Workshop on the Teaching of Korean Language, Culture, and Literature (6th, Manoa, Hawaii, August 2-5, 2001).
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American Association of Teachers of Korean. and Ree, Joe Jungno
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This collection of conference papers includes: (1) "Theories, Evidence, and Practice in Foreign Language Teaching" (Richard Schmidt); (2) "Teaching Korean Grammar in Context: -myen and -ttay" (Sahie Kang); (3) "Teaching Politeness Routines in Korean" (Ho-min Sohn); (4) "Vocabulary-Building Activities" (Boyang Park); (5) "Implementation and Evaluation of a Task-Based Approach to the Teaching of the Korean Language" (Youngkyu Kim, Dong-Kwan Kong, Jin-Hwa Lee, and Young-Geun Lee); (6) "Effects of Task Complexity on L2 Production" (Young-Geun Lee); (7) "Recognition and Retention of English Loanwords by Learners of Korean" (InJung Cho); (8) "The Number Concept of Korean People" (Sunny Jung); (9) "The Film, the Poem and the Story: Integrating Literature into the Language Curriculum" (Ann Y. Choi); (10) "Exploring the Possibilities of WBLT for Operational Testing Purposes: Web-Based Korean as a Foreign Language Testing" (Siwon Park); (11) "Increasing Korean Oral Fluency Using an Electronic Bulletin Board and Wimba-Based Voiced Chat" (Sunah Cho and Stephen Carey); (12) "Interactive Online Exercises: Retention of Non-Heritage Learners in a Mixed Class" (Hye-Won Choi and Sunghee Koh); (13) "Using HyperStudio for Teaching Korean" (Eun-Hee Koo); (14) "Developing a Business Korean Course Based on a Systematic Approach" (Andrew Byon); (15) "Two New Publications for Intermediate Level Korean" (Kyungnyun Kim Richards); (16) "Language Shift in Bilingual Students: A Sociolinguistic Survey of Korean-American College Students" (Steven K. Lee and Ruth Ahn); (17) "Recent Trends in Foreign Language Teaching in the United States: The Role of Heritage Learners" (Dong Jae Lee); (18) "Korean Language Education in New York City Public Schools" (Bongsoon Yow); (19) "An Analysis of Errors in Speaking Practice" (Sang-Il Lee); (20) "An Error Analysis in Relation to Typological Differences" (Boyang Park); (21) "Issues of Heritage Learners in Korean Language Classes" (Hi-Sun Helen Kim); (22) "Heritage vs. Non-Heritage Issues Revisited" (Clare You); (23) "The Degree of L1 Interference among Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners of Korean: Do Heritage Learners Have Advantages over Non-Heritage Learners?" (Jung-Tae Kim); (24) "English-Speaking Students' Written Language Development in Korean in a Korean/English Two-Way Immersion Program" (Joung Hoon Ha); (25) "Cross-Cultural Variations in Personal Essays: Second Language Writing by American Learners of Korean as Compared to Native Koreans' Writing" (Ooyoung Che Pyun); (26) "Reflective Journal Writing in the Korean II Class" (Hye Young Chung); and (27) "Socio-Pragmatic Functions of the Interactive Sentence Ender -ney from the Politeness Perspective" (Soo-ah Kim Yuen). (Papers contain references.) (SM)
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- 2001
9. The Political Status of the Romani Language in Europe. Mercator Working Papers.
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Bakker, Peter and Rooker, Marcia
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This paper examines the political status of Romani. the language of the Gypsies/Roma, in the European Union (EU). Even though some groups do not call themselves "Roma," all Romani speaking groups use the name "Romanes" for their language and "Romani/Romano/Romane" for everything related to their group. All groups use the same language, and all languages can be subdivided into dialects. Three aspects make Romani dialects more diverse than other EU dialects: absence of centuries long influence from a standard language or prestige dialect; influence from a variety of local languages; and a great number of communities of Romani speakers (with speakers not all in contact with each other). This paper highlights the following: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "The Roma"; (3) "Roma and International Organizations"; (4) "The Romani Language: Demographic and Sociolinguistic Data"; (5) "The Status of Romani in International Institutions"; (6) "Romani and European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (non-territorial languages and implementation); (7) "The Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities"; (8) "Article 27 of the Un-Covenant on Civil and Political Rights"; (9) "Country-by-Country Survey of Romani in EU Countries" (individual countries, Romani in education, and publications in and about Romani); and (10) "Conclusions: The Future of Romani." (Contains 47 references.) (SM)
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- 2001
10. Languages and Institutions in the European Union. Mercator Working Papers.
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Alcaraz, Manuel
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This paper situates languages in the framework of European construction, analyzing problems resulting from the definition of languages' official status in the European Union (EU) juridical system. It explains that the process of European construction is historically defined by means of two distinct features (it is an open process, and at the same time, it is an accumulative process). The paper looks at the system of linguistic officiality in the EU (the Council, the Parliament, the Court of Justice, and Ombudsman), then it notes that the question for many policymakers, officials, and journalists is whether the current system is sustainable at this stage of the EU enlargement process. After summarizing a 1995 Parliamentary resolution on the use of official languages in EU institutions, the paper discusses minority languages, which are not EU official languages. It concludes that since the European construction process is an ongoing process, linguistic vertebration will continue to be a provisional matter. It suggests that if Europe is going to be constructed based on diversity and liberty, then Europe will be a place of bilingual people. (SM)
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- 2001
11. Icelandic: Linguistic Maintenance or Change? The Role of English. Occasional Paper.
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Southampton Univ. (England). Centre for Language Education. and Hilmarsson-Dunn, Amanda
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The Icelandic language has a long and stable history, and Old Icelandic is still accessible to modern day Icelanders. This is despite being ruled from Denmark, with influence by the Danish language, for about 500 years. Icelandic may now be under a more serious threat from the onslaught of English. This paper evaluates the linguistic situation in Iceland, assessing whether language maintenance or change is the likely outcome. It shows how social factors such as age, gender, and education have influenced spoken Icelandic and how purist language policies have attempted to stamp out any variations. Iceland's strong social network has resisted change over the centuries, while the other Nordic languages have undergone dramatic changes, particularly in morphology. This resistance has been due in part to pride in their strong literary tradition and high literacy levels. At the same time, Icelandic has assimilated foreign words throughout its history, and it is likely that foreign vocabulary (predominantly English) will continue to be assimilated, and many neologisms will be invented. Information technology is the largest threat to the use of Icelandic. The globalization of English, although having an enormous impact in Iceland is also having the effect of strengthening Icelandic's resistance to change. (Contains 25 references.) (SM)
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- 2003
12. Some Have Credit Cards and Others Have Giro Cheques: A Study of New Labour's 'Individuals' and 'People' as Lifelong Learners in Late Modernity. Occasional Papers.
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Southampton Univ. (England). Centre for Language Education. and Piper, Alison
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The linguistic behavior of individuals and people in the official literature on lifelong learning (LL) was examined and interpreted in light of the theories of individualization in late modern culture and society, particularly the theories of Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. The analysis was performed to shed light on that literature's ideological stance toward participants in the "learning society" and to demonstrate that the analysis of language is crucial to social and cultural inquiry. A 900,000-word corpus of recent government and academic publications on LL was used to perform a concordance-based analysis of the collocations of "individuals" as members of institutionalized collectives, agents, rational citizens, and consumers and to compare them with "people". The 1 million word British National Corpus was used as a reference corpus. The LL corpus contained 1,775 instances of forms of the word "individual" and 1,450 instances of "people," whereas the British National Corpus contained 22,264 instances of forms of the word "individual" and 123,427 instances of "people." By demonstrating that "individual" occurs more frequently with societal institutions in the LL discourse than in general usage, that individuals and people are different, and that people is a far more frequent word in the whole language than it is in policy-making, the researcher concluded that the different usage of "individuals" and "people" show that the discourse of LL has close affinities with contemporary sociocultural models of individualization, consumption, production, and the risk society. (The bibliography lists 41 references. A list of 30 documents in the lifelong learning corpus is appended.) (Author/MN)
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- 2000
13. Mexican Immigrant Women's Narratives of Language Experience: Defendiendose in Southern California. Working Paper.
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California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. and Relano Pastor, May
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This paper describes the communicative situation of 17 Mexican immigrant women in San Diego County (California), focusing on a set of narratives of personal language experiences in everyday life. Data collection included intensive fieldwork in an adult computer literacy project serving predominantly Mexican immigrants and interviews with seven project coordinators, seven participants, and four nonparticipants. Subjects' English language proficiency ranged from none to full bilingualism. To exemplify how events involving communicative challenges took place, the women reported on dialogues that occurred in different situations. By quoting others' words, the women were not only reporting speech, but also assessing the problematic nature of the incident. Analyses of these dialogues include setting, unexpected event, psychological response, attempt to resolve the challenge, and consequences. Examples presented in detail involve the women's interactions with doctors, other medical staff, school personnel, their own child in a school situation, and a priest. In monolingual U.S. institutions, the women experienced "invisibility" (exclusion) responses from the people they interacted with. The examples show that the invisibility responses occurred when the women did not have enough English to defend themselves, when language judgments were mapped onto Mexican ethnicity, and when Spanish was underprivileged in institutions. (Contains 84 references.) (SV)
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- 2001
14. Successful Instruction for Literacy-Level Adults. CARLA Working Paper.
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Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition. and Vinogradov, Patsy
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This report explores a range of issues related to the successful instruction of literacy-level English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) adults. The paper describes types of programs as well as factors that affect this population. Through a series of teacher interviews, the unique characteristics of these learners as well as suggested curricula are detailed. Appendices include suggested student materials and a reading list. The report is divided into six sections: introduction, types of programs, literature review (including native language literacy, age, trauma, family demands, cultural and individual beliefs, sociopolitical concerns), teacher interviews, curriculum (goals of a literacy-level course, sequence, presentation [including techniques and sample lessons], and assessment), and teacher training workshop materials. (Contains 50 references.) (KFT)
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- 2001
15. The Juridical Defence of Rhaeto-Romansh Languages, with Particular Reference to the Friulian Case. Mercator Working Papers.
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Cisilino, William
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Rhaeto-Romansh is a Neo-Latin language with three varieties. Occidental Rhaeto-Romansh (Romansh) is spoken in Switzerland, in the Canton of the Grisons. Central Rhaeto-Romansh (Dolomite Ladin) is spoken in some of the Italian Dolomite valleys, in the Province of Belluno, Bozen/Bolzano, and Trento. Oriental Rhaeto-Romansh (Friulian) is spoken in northeast Italy, in the Provinces of Gorizia, Pordenone, Udine, and Venezia. The administrative and state borders separating these communities have determined particular linguistic developments and led to diversified forms of juridical defense. This paper examines juridical regulations for the defense of the Rhaeto-Romansh groups present in the Autonomous Province of Bozen, in the Canton of the Grisons, and in the Autonomous Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It highlights the regulations recently adopted in favor of the Friulian linguistic community, which until 5 years ago, was one of the least safeguarded Rhaeto-Romansh groups. It also examines Regional Law 15/96, which was the first organic law for the defense of the Friulian language, and describes Law 482/99, which put into practice the fundamental principle on the defense of minorities provided for by Article 6 of the Constitution. It concludes that once the Executive Rules of Law 482 are issued, Friulians will have many useful juridical instruments for making their linguistic rights prevail. (SM)
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- 2001
16. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, Spring 2000.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Graduate School of Education. and Schwinge, Diana
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This issue has four articles. Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo and Teresa Pica in "Is the EFL Environment a Language Learning Environment?" address the question of whether the English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom is an environment that promotes input, feedback, and the production of output that is necessary for successful second language learning. Anne Pomerantz in "Interviews and Identity: A Critical Discourse Perspective," examines how participants in an interview use different linguistic and social resources in order to construct multiple, complex self-representations. Melisa Cahnmann in "Rhythm and Resource: Repetition as a Linguistic Style in an Urban Elementary Classroom" analyzes a Puerto Rican teacher who uses repetition and discourse styles that have African and African American roots to control classroom behavior and talk, better teach the curriculum, and critique the use of standard English in her classroom. Mollie Blackburn and Deborah Stern in "Analyzing the Role of the Vernacular in Student Writing: A Social Literacies Approach" utilize a social literacies perspective to analyze a rap written by a high school student, and suggest that teachers and researchers could better understand students' literacy practices by using insights that students have about different types of written work. Tables, diagrams and references appear as appropriate in each article. (KFT)
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- 2000
17. The Ratification of Spain of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Mercator Working Papers.
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Surribas, Santiago Castella
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This report describes the development and approval of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. After discussing the expression of consent to the European Charter, the report focuses on the ratification process of and obligations assumed by Spain. Although Spain was one of the first signatories in 1992, the ratification was not signed until 2001. The initial Spanish Declaration strongly supported the protection of regional or minority languages, and Spain's ratification is also very supportive, though there are some exceptions related to university education and the media. The report notes that in general, the Charter's obligation to erase every distinction, exclusion, restriction, or unjustified preference that would imply a danger for the maintenance or development of a language opens up possibilities for a more positive interpretation for regional or minority languages. The Charter offers no capacity for enlarging Spain's linguistic law. The report suggests that its most significant contribution is that it offers an international guarantee of minimum protection for languages involved. (SM)
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- 2002
18. Selected Papers from NWAVE(E) 27 (Athens, Georgia, October 1-4, 1998). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 2.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Moisset, Christine, and Lipson, Mimi
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This issue includes the following articles: "Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A Preliminary Investigation" (Julie Auger, Jeffrey Steele); "Lexical Borrowings from French in Written Quebec English: Perspectives on Motivation" (Pamela Grant-Russell and Celine Beaudet); "Variable Article Use in Korean Learners of English" (Hikyoung Lee); "The Loss of Auxiliary Selection in English" (Mimi Lipson); "Syntactic Change in Progress: Semi-Auxiliary Busy in South African English" (Rajend Mesthrie); "The Emergence of Creole Subject-Verb Agreement" (Miriam Meyerhoff); "Double Subject Marking in L2 Montreal French" (Naomi Nagy, Helene Blondeau); "Testing the Creole Continuum" (Peter Patrick); "Going Younger To Do Difference: The Role of Children in Language Change" (Julie Roberts); and"Situated Ethnicities: Constructing and Reconstructing Identity in the Sociolinguistic Interview" (Natalie Schilling-Estes). References are appended to each article. (KFT)
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- 1999
19. Lifelong Learning, Human Capital, and the Soundbite. Occasional Paper.
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Southampton Univ. (England). Centre for Language Education. and Piper, Alison
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This paper demonstrates how a linguistic analysis of lifelong learning as a cultural keyword can be carried out in the context of a particular socioeconomic model with which it is associated, human capital, focusing on the dynamics of their relationship. Study data include a 900,000-word corpus of the recent British and European Union literature on lifelong learning (official publications, newspaper reports, and educational critiques), as well as a larger standard corpus used for reference. Using corpus linguistic methods to study its collocational behavior, key features of the syntax and semantics of lifelong learning are compared with the behavior of the word "learning" as it occurs in general use, and the sociocultural connotations of these features are interpreted and compared with the assumptions of human capital theory. The recurrent wordings that occur in the environment of lifelong learning demonstrate that its participants and processes are extending the meaning of "learning" as a socioeconomic activity and make it possible to show how linguistic categories become social categories). (Contains 37 references.) (SM)
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- 1998
20. A Selection of Papers from NWAVE [New Ways of Analyzing Variation] (25th, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1996). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4, Number 1.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Boberg, Charles, Meyerhoff, Miriam, and Strassel, Stephanie
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This issue includes the following articles: "Towards a Sociolinguistics of Style" (Alan Bell, Gary Johnson); "Engendering Identities: Pronoun Selection as an Indicator of Salient Intergroup Identities" (Miriam Meyerhoff); "A Majority Sound Change in a Minority Community" (Carmen Fought); "Addressing the Actuation Question for Local Linguistic Communities" (Lisa Ann Lane); "Typologizing the Sociolinguistic Speech Community" (Otto Santa Ana and Claudia Parodi); "Symbolic Identity and Language Change: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Insular /ay/ and /aw/" (Natalie Schilling-Estes, Walt Wolfram); "The Geolinguistics of Sound Change in Progress: /l/ Vocalization in Australia" (Barbara M. Horvath, Ronald J. Horvath); "Urban Sound Change beyond the Cities: The Spread of the Northern Cities Chain Shift" (Matthew J. Gordon); "Dialect Contact, Focusing and Phonological Rule Complexity: The Koineisation of Fenland English" (David Britain); "Sociolinguistic Coherence of Changes in Standard Dialect" (J. K. Chambers); "Adaptive Sociophonetic Strategies and Dialect Accommodation: /ay/ Monophthongization in Cherokee English" (Bridget L. Anderson); "Phonetic Realization of Final Engma in Taipei Mandarin" (Fu-Dong Chiou); "Frequency Effects in Variable Lexical Phonology" (James Meyers, Gregory R. Guy); "Variation in the Nativization of Foreign [a] in English" (Charles Boberg); "Rule Inversion in British English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of [r]-sandhi in Newcastle upon Tyne" (Paul Foulkes); "Optimality and the Syntax of Lectal Variation" (Rakesh M. Bhatt); "The Truth about Codeswitching in Insular Acadian" (Ruth King, Terry Nadasdi); "Empirical Analysis of Anti-Immigrant Metaphor in Political Discourse" (Otto Santa Ana); "Is There an Authentic African American Speech Community: Carla Revisited" (Lanita Jacobs-Huey); "Yorkville Crossing: A Case Study of the Influence of Hip-Hop Culture on the Speech of a White Middle Class Adolescent in New York City" (Cecilia A. Cutler); and "Modeling Contact-Induced Language Change" (Naomi Nagy). Tables, figures, charts, graphs, and references are included in individual articles. (KFT)
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- 1997
21. Current Work in Linguistics. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 3.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Williams, Alexander, Kaiser, Elsi, Williams, Alexander, Kaiser, Elsi, and Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club.
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This issue includes the following articles: "On Negative Alternative Questions" (Chung-hye Han); "A Categorical Syntax for Verbs of Perception" (Robin Clark, Gerhard Jager); "Defective Complements in Tree Adjoining Grammar" (Seth Kulick, Robert Frank, K. Vijayshanker); "The Convergence of Lexicalist Perspectives in Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics" (Albert E. Kim, Bangalore Srinivas, John C. Trueswell); "Event Heads and the Distribution of Psych-Roots" (Martha McGinnis); "Echo Reduplication in Kannada: Implications for a Theory of Word Formation" (Jeffrey Lidz); "The Distribution of the Old Irish Infixed Pronouns: Evidence for the Syntactic Evolution of Insular Celtic?" (Ronald Kim); "Discourse Salience and Pronoun Resolution in Hindi" (Rashmi Prasad, Michael Strube); "The Effect of Thematic Roles on Pronoun Use and Frequency of Reference Continuation" (Jennifer E. Arnold); "Bilingual Code-Switching and the Open/Closed Class Distinction" (Ellen F. Prince and Susan Pintzuk); "Dialect Acquisition and Prestige" (Clarissa Surek-Clark); "Final Extrametricality in Latin and Manam" (Eugene Buckley); "Yoruba Vowel Elision and Compounding" (Amanda Seidl); "The Laryngeal Effect in Korean: Phonology or Phonetics?" (Eon-Suk Ko); and "Multidimensional Exploration of Online Linguistic Field Data" (Steven Bird). Individual articles contain references. (KFT)
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- 2000
22. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Alexander, Jim, Han, Na-Rae, and Fox, Michelle Minnick
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This issue includes the following articles: "Assimilation to the Unmarked" (Eric Bakovic); "On the Non-Universality of Functional Projections and the Effects on Parametrized Variation: Evidence from Creoles" (Marlyse Baptista); "What Turkish Acquisition Tells Us about Underlying Word Order and Scrambling" (Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan, Karin Stromswold); "Constituting Context: Null Objects in English Recipes Revisited" (Emily Bender); "Decomposing French Questions" (Cedric Boeckx); "A Conspiracy Argument for Optimality Theory: Emakhuwa Dialectology" (Farida Cassimjee, Charles W, Kisseberth); "Light-Headed Relatives" (Barbara Citko); "Semantically Charged Syntax and the Construction of Meaning" (Kristin M. Eide and Tor A. Afarli); "'Punctuality' and Verb Semantics" (Stefan Engelberg);"Acquisition of Default Inflectional Suffixes: Japanese Adjectives" (Miho Fujiwara); "Possessor Extraction in Child English: A Minimalist Account" (Elena Gavruseva, Rosalind Thornton); "The Long Distance Anaphora Conspiracy: The Case of Korean" (Kook-Hee Gill); "Topic, Focus, and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface" (Jeanette K. Gundel); "Two Ways of Describing Distributive Readings" (J.R. Hayashishita); "The Reduplicative Nature of the Bulgarian Definite Article" (Ben Hermans); "The Origin of the Pre-Ossetic Oblique Case Suffix and Its Implications" (Ronald Kim); "A Hierarchy of Phonetic Constraints on Palatality in Russian" (Alexei Kochetov); "Japanese Floating Classifiers" (William McClure); "A-Scrambling Exists!" (Martha McGinnis); "Perception and Production of American English Tense and Lax Vowels by Japanese Speakers" (Michelle Minnick Fox, Kazuaki Maeda); "The Syntax of Adjunct Wh-NPs" (Masao Ochi, Tien-Hsin Hsin); "Reflexives and Constraints on the Borrowing of Discourse Function: Creoles and Tahitian French" (Kieran Snyder); and "Two Types of Verb Particle Constructions" (Mikael Vinka). References are appended to each article. (KFT)
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- 1999
23. Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, Number 3.
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Edinburgh Univ. (Scotland). and Lynch, Tony
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Edinburgh Working Papers is intended to show a yearly cross-section of current work in Edinburgh's Department of Applied Linguistics and to elicit reactions and criticism. Papers in this compilation include the following: "Asymmetric Resetting of the Non-Empty Topic Parameter by Chinese-Speaking Learners of English"; "The Sociolinguistic Status of English in Malta"; "Interlanguage Phonology: The Perceptual Development of Durational Contrasts by English-Speaking Learners of Japanese"; "Participant Reference in Greek Personal Experience Narratives"; "Reading, Culture, and Cognition"; "Cluster Analysis and the Interlanguage Lexicon"; "Interactional Listening Tasks: A Comparative Study of Strategy and Practice Teaching Approaches"; "Lesson Beginnings"; "Where True Power Lies: Modality as an Indication of Power in Two Institutionalised Domains of Language Use"; "Tense, Aspect and the Busconductor Hines--The Literary Function of Non-Standard Language in the Fiction of James Kelman"; "A Pragmatics of Verbal Irony in Literary Discourse: An Example from Drama"; and "An Investigation into Learners' Reactions to Learner Training for Self-Access Listening." (JL)
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- 1992
24. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, Volume 9, Number 2.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Graduate School of Education., Gladstein, Jill, and Silver, Rita Elaine
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This issue of a journal designed to present works in progress by students and professors of linguistics contains the following papers: "In Praise of My Language" (Joshua A. Fishman); "How Does Social Status Affect the Sequencing Rules of Other-Introductions?" (Fred J. Chen); "The Role of Ethno-Lingual Relativity in Second Language Acquisition" (James L. Citron); "Debating the 1990 Luso-Brazilian Orthographic Accord" (Pedro M. Garcez); "Shared Writing: Students' Perceptions and Attitudes of Peer Review" (Andrea M. Murau); and "So What Are You Talking About?': The Importance of Student Questions in the ESL Classroom" (Ellen Skilton, Thomas Meyer). (AB)
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- 1993
25. Current Work in Linguistics. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 5, Number 2.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Dimitriadis, Alexis, Lee, Hikyoung, Moisset, Christine, and Williams, Alexander
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This issue includes the following articles: "A Multi-Modal Analysis of Anaphora and Ellipsis" (Gerhard Jager); "Amount Quantification, Referentiality, and Long Wh-Movement" (Anthony Kroch); "Valency in Kannada: Evidence for Interpretive Morphology" (Jeffrey Lidz); "Vietnamese 'Morphology' and the Definition of Word" (Rolf Noyer); "The Conflict between Future Tense and Modality: The Case of 'Will' in English" (Anoop Sarkar); and "Predemonstrative Modifiers in Mandarin" (Alexander Williams). References are appended to each article. (KFT)
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- 1998
26. Proceedings of the Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (22nd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 28-March 1, 1998). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 5, Number 1.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Dimitriadis, Alexis, Lee, Hikyoung, Moisset, Christine, and Williams, Alexander
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This issue includes the following articles: "Detaching Discourse Functions from Functional Projections" (Dora Alexopoulou); "Interface Conditions on Child Language: A Crosslinguistic Look at Genitives" (Sharon Armon-Lotem, Stephen Crain); "Formal Features and Movement at PF" (Ralph C. Blight); "Semantic Features of Determiners: Toward an Account for Complements of D" (Jocelyn Cohan); "Discourse Deixis and Anaphora Resolution in German" (Miriam Eckert); "The Syntax of IPP-Constructions and the Structure of the Lower Middlefield in Westgermanic" (Roland Hinterholzl); "Pre-Boundary Lengthening: Universal or Language Specific? The Case of Hungarian" (Beth Ann Hockey, Zsuzsanna Fagyal); "Some Reconstruction Riddles" (Howard Lasnik); "The Life and Death of Derivational Morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen (Fengxiang Li, Lindsay J. Whaley); "Chains and Phono-Logical Form" (Jeffrey Lidz, William J. Idsardi); "Deixis and Interactional Construction of Context" (Simona Pekarek); "Complex Small Clauses" (Joan Rafel); "Sloppy Definites (Ann M. Reed); "An Event Syntactic Account of Delimitation in Mandarin" (Chuanchih Wang); and "Restructuring Control" (Susi Wurmbrand). References are appended to each article. (KFT)
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- 1998
27. Current Work in Linguistics. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4, Number 3.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Dimitriadis, Alexis, Lee, Hikyoung, Siegel, Laura, Surek-Clark, Clarissa, and Williams, Alexander
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This issue contains the following articles: "Was Mir Wisse: A Review of the Literature on the Languages of the Pennsylvania Germans" (David Bowie); "Tigrinya Root Consonants and the OCP" (Eugene Buckley); "Duration of Onset Consonants in Gay Male Stereotyped Speech" (Sean Crist); "PRO, the EPP and Nominative Case: Evidence from Irish Infinitivals" (Heidi Harley, Andrew Carnie); "Palatalization and Umlaut in Korean" (Soonhyun Hong); "Exceptional Case Marking in the Xtag System" (Seth Kulick); "Functional and Pair-List Embedded Questions" (Yael Sharvit); and "The Perfect, Contingency, and Temporal Subordination" (Beverly Spejewski). (KFT)
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- 1997
28. Proceedings of the Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (21st, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22-23, 1997). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4, Number 2.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club., Dimitriadis, Alexis, Siegel, Laura, Surek-Clark, Clarissa, and Williams, Alexander
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This issue contains the following articles: "The Pragmatics of Wh-Question Intonation in English" (Christine Bartels); "The Nature of Object Agreement in Hungarian" (Huba Bartos); "Voah Mei Daett Sei Deitsh: Developments in the Vowel System of Pennsylvania German" (David Bowie); "Event Time Properties" (Gerhard Brugger); "Polarity in Spanish, French, and English" (Dee Cain, Renee J. O'Brien); "Chanting Intonation in French" (Zsuzsanna Fagyal); "Sui Generis Genericity" (Hana Filip, Greg Carlson); "South Slavic Clitic Placement Is Still Syntactic" (Steven Franks); "Permission Sentences in Dynamic Semantics" (Javier Gutierrez-Rexach); "Do I Sound 'Asian' to You? Linguistic Markers of Asian American Identity" (David B. Hanna); "Subcategorization Semantics and the Naturalness of Verb-Frame Pairings" (Edward Kako); "Extraction, Gradedness, and Optimality" (Frank Keller); "A Non-Scalar Account of Apparent Gradience: Evidence from Yo and Ne" (Yuriko Suzuki Kose); "No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon" (Alec Marantz); "What Does the Copula Do?" (Kunio Nishiyama); "Disyllabic Requirement in Swahili Morphology" (Jae-Ick Park); "Aspectual Shifting in the Perfect and Progressive" (Laura Wagner); "A Model-Theoretic Approach to A-Not-A Questions" (Jianxin Wu); and "Against Overt Particle Incorporation" (Jochen Zeller). Diagrams, tables, and references appear throughout the articles. (KFT)
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- 1997
29. University of New Mexico Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 1.
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New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque., Meehan, Teresa M., Schwenter, Scott A., Meehan, Teresa M., Schwenter, Scott A., and New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque.
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This volume contains working papers on a variety of topics in linguistics. They include: "A View of Phonology from a Cognitive and Functional Perspective" (Joan Bybee); "The Geography of Language Shift: Distance from the Mexican Border and Spanish Language Claiming in the Southwestern United States" (Garland D. Bills, Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, Alan Hudson); "Rethinking the 'Power Semantic': Alternatives for the Analysis and Interpretation of Non-Reciprocal T/V Address" (Scott Schwenter); "Prototype Theory in Language and Cognition" (Patricia Escarraz); "Sociolinguistic Competence in Context: The Formality Factor" (Robin Dale Zuskin); "Male/Female Speech Patterns: Singularity versus Diversity" (Anne Wiltshire); "Supplementing the Binding Theory: On the Question of Proper Binding" (Hector A. Torres); "Some Considerations of the Use of Indices with Pronouns and Wh- Traces" (Carolyn Kennedy); "Toward a Better Understanding of Universal Grammar: Evidence from Child Language" (Teresa M. Meehan); and "Re-Examination of the Notion of Proper Binding: The Interpretation of Reflexives in Japanese" (Teruo Ueno). (MSE)
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- 1993
30. Changing Views of Language in Education and the Implications for Literacy Research: An Interactional Sociological Perspective. Occasional Paper No. 23.
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Center for the Study of Writing, Berkeley, CA., Center for the Study of Writing, Pittsburgh, PA., Cook-Gumperz, Jenny, and Gumperz, John
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This article describes how, over the past 25 years, sociolinguistics and education have entered into a methodological and intellectual dialogue that has significantly changed both views of language and theories of how language enters into school learning processes. The first section, "Literacy, Language and the Problem of Differential Learning," defines the relevant issues. The next three sections ("From Linguistic Deficit to Cultural and Linguistic Difference: The 1960s,""The 1970s: Teaching as a Linguistic Process," and "Schooling as a Sociolinguistic Process: The 1980s") discuss theories, methods, and findings, keeping in mind their relevance to literacy. The fifth section, "An Interactional Perspective," describes how this approach to schooling processes focuses on the interplay of linguistic, contextual and social presuppositions which interact to create the conditions for classroom learning. The sixth section, "Theory of Communication as Interpersonal Inferencing," argues that the task of interactional sociolinguists in modern educational settings is to chart the process by which theories of educability are put into daily practice, and to uncover the implicit theory of learning that underlies classroom strategies and that informs the teachers' practices and the schools' policies. The seventh section is a conclusion which discusses interactional sociolinguistics and literacy research. A section on future research issues concludes the paper. Fifty-four references are attached. (SR)
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- 1990
31. Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. NLIA Occasional Paper No. 2.
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Australian National Languages Inst., Melbourne., Liddicoat, Anthony, Liddicoat, Anthony, and Australian National Languages Inst., Melbourne.
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Following an introduction by Anthony Liddicoat on the general nature of bilingualism, three papers on the characteristics, development, and advantages of bilingualism are presented. "Psycholinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism" by Susanne Dopke, Tim Macnamara, and Terry Quinn considers the linguistic, cognitive, emotional, and educational development of the bilingual individual and the social psychology of bilingualism. "Sociolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism: Bilingualism and Society" by George Saunders looks at bilingualism in its social context and the linguistic and social factors influencing attainment and maintenance of bilingualism. Emphasis here is on the situation of bilinguals in Australia. "Bilingual Education" by Marta Rado focuses on bilingual education as an effective way of developing bilingualism. Much of the discussion here is relevant to language teaching and describes models for bilingual education used in major English-speaking countries. (Contains approximately 300 references.) (MSE)
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- 1991
32. Penn Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 2.
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Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Graduate School of Education., Hardman, Joel, Hardman, Joel, and Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Graduate School of Education.
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The working papers contained in this volume include the following: "Intercultural Communication and the Analysis of Conversation" (Nessa Wolfson); "Methods of Inquiry into Cultural Expression in Speech Behavior" (Ruth Benander); "'I Really Like Your Lifestyle': ESL Learners Learning How to Compliment" (Kristine Billmyer); "'Your Eye is Sparkling': Formulaic Expressions and Routines in Turkish" (Seran Dogancay); "Misunderstood Efforts and Missed Opportunities: An Examination of EFL in Japan" (Yoshiko Okushi); and "Discourse Marking and Elaboration and the Comprehensibility of Second Language Speakers" (Jessica Williams). (MSE)
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- 1990
33. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Volume Twenty-Six. The Polish-English Contrastive Project.
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Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Poznan (Poland)., Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC., and Fisiak, Jacek
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Fourteen articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "A Brief Falsificationist Look at Contrastive Sociolinguistics" (K. Janicki); "The Locus of French Gender Control" (W. A. Bennett); "On the English Perfect Tense and Current Relevance Implicatures" (J. R. Canavan); "Teaching French to Spanish Speakers: Some Typical Patterns of Error" (P. B. Stevens); "The Passive and Passivizability in Danish and German" (O. Lauridsen); "Equivalence and Translatability of English and Arabic Idioms" (M. Awwad); "Universals in Interlanguage Phonology: The Case of Brazilian ESL Learners" (L. M. Dreasher and J. Anderson-Hsieh); "Social Relations and Sex Stereotyping in Language" (A. Martynyuk); "A Contrastive Study of Male and Female Occupational Terms in English and Russian" (A. Martynyuk); "The English Palatalization Rule in Second Language Acquisition" (J. Rysiewicz); "Collocations: The Missing Link in Vocabulary Acquisition Amongst EFL Learners" (R. F. Hussein); "Principles for a Contrastive Phonotactics: The Hebrew Triconsonental (CCC) Root System a Case in Point" (Y. Tobin); "English/Russian Nominal Sentences-Expressives: Contrastive Analysis" (I. Frolova); and "A Working Framework for a Pedagological Contrastive Grammar of Persian and English: From Sentence to Discourse" (L. Yarmohammadi). A review article by J. M. Doherty on Van Voorst's "Event Structure" concludes this issue. Contains references following each article. (LB)
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- 1990
34. Investigating Lexical Variation and Change in Malaysian Twitter: A Conceptual Paper.
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Gulnazir, Noraishah and Salehuddin, Khazriyati
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AMERICAN English language ,SOCIAL media ,VARIATION in language ,ENGLISH language ,MALAYSIANS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
Social media platforms such as Twitter is constantly transforming the usage of lexical items among global Internet users, including in Malaysia. Interestingly, despite adopting British English in the national education system, American English is gaining prominence among Malaysians due to the widespread dissemination of American English through the media. American English has been classified as a hyper-central language, serving as the hub for global English in Mair's theory of The World System of Englishes. Despite of the magnitude of American English as a global language, there is a dearth of research on how American English is affecting other varieties of English, especially Malaysian English. There is a need to examine the role of American English in leading global language variation and change. Thus, this conceptual paper proposes how the influence of American English on Malaysian English, in terms of lexical items can be investigated on Twitter. This paper demonstrates how two emerging American lexical items lit and on fleek can be investigated in terms of its trend of frequency and patterns of usage in Malaysian Twitter through a number of tools and methods. Results from such a study may be able to reveal the extent to which Malaysian English is influenced by American English in terms of lexical units on Twitter, shedding light on the global transformation of the English language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. Boasting and Bragging: 'Black' and 'White.' Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 58.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. and Kochman, Thomas
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This paper draws from a number of sources, from Muhammad Ali to TV commercials, to demonstrate the quite different conceptions that black and white Americans have of the meaning of boasting and bragging. For blacks, boasting and bragging are two distinct ways of speaking and communication. Boasting is a joking, playful verbal bahavior, not to be taken literally. A good boaster is admired as is a good joke teller; in fact, the verbal behavior involved is very similar. On the other hand, bragging is a serious form of self-aggradizement, quite distinct from playful boasting. For whites, especially Anglo-Saxon whites, both boasting and bragging are to be taken seriously and both are considered to be in bad taste. People who boast and brag are called egotists and "show-offs." It is shown: (1) that white conceptions and interpretations of boasting/bragging and black conceptions and interpretations of boasting/bragging are in conflict, and (2) that there is great potential for misunderstandings in black-white interactions because of this conflict. It is important for individuals in public service roles who interact with both blacks and whites, and especially with both groups simultaneously, to be aware of the differences in black and white communicative behaviors and the potential for conflict and misunderstanding. (Author/AMH)
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- 1979
36. Language Diversity in Chicano Speech Communities: Implications for Language Teaching. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 54.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX., Elias-Olivares, Lucia, and Valdes-Fallis, Guadalupe
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This paper focuses on language diversity in Chicano speech communities in the United States and its relation to the teaching of Spanish to Chicano bilinguals. Attempts to teach standard Spanish to Spanish-speakers in the United States have been unsuccessful for the most part, because the schools recognize only a single standard of "correctness" that is not always the same as that used in the communities. Attempts to teach Spanish as a mother tongue to Chicano students are reviewed, and the need to establish guidelines for the evaluation of current positions and programs is addressed. The sociopolitical, socioeconomic, and educational experiences of Chicanos are reviewed based on an assessment of the present sociolinguistic situation of Chicanos. This situation consists of a language repertoire with various codes that depart from the Mexican Spanish linguistic tradition, an asymmetrical type of bilingualism, and the use of Spanish viewed as transitional and not valued in the broader society. It is concluded that collaboration between sociolinguists and language instructors is needed since Spanish language instruction for Chicano bilinguals is not equivalent to instruction in a first language. (SW)
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- 1979
37. Theory and Method in Establishing the Cultural Congruence of Classroom Speech Events. Asian Pacific American Occasional Papers.
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National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education, Berkeley, CA. and Au, Kathryn Hu-pei
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The purpose of this paper is to outline theory and methods associated with a research strategy for identifying elements of cultural congruence or incogruence in classroom speech events. The hypothesis of "sociolinguistic interference" proposed by D. Hymes is discussed and studies of language education of Hawaiians and other minorities are reviewed from this perspective. A strategy is proposed by which teacher behavior and classroom structure can be modified to affect cultural congruence in classroom speech events. At the same time, researchers and educators are encouraged to accept cultural diversity. (Author/APM)
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- 1980
38. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 12.
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Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Linguistics Graduate Student Association., Fareh, Shehdeh, and Yumitani, Yukihiro
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Seven original research papers by faculty and students of the Linguistics Department and other related departments of the University of Kansas are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Particles in Tojolabal Mayan Discourse" (Jill Brody); "One Hundred Years of Lakota Linguistics (1887-1987)" (Willem J. de Reuse); "Lexical and Phrasal Phonology of Yoruba Nouns" (Antonia Y. Folarin); "Some Klamath-Sahaptian Grammatical Correspondences" (Noel Rude); "A Note on Hopi Consonant Gradation" (David Leedom Shaul); "Word Order in Klamath" (Karen Sundberg); "A Comparative Sketch of Pueblo Languages: Phonology" (Yukihiro Yumitani). A list of the cumulative contents of volumes 1-12 of the Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics is included. (LB)
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- 1987
39. Reflections on Cree Interactional Etiquette: Educational Implications. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 57.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. and Darnell, Regna
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Differences between Cree and North American middle class patterns of interactional etiquette are discussed. Interactional etiquette is defined as the verbal and non-verbal conventions that are involved in communication among individuals, including greeting, leave taking, asking questions, disagreement, and interruption. The Cree communicate more with silence, interrupt less, and ask questions less directly than non-Indian North Americans. Old people, especially old men, play the central role in traditional education. The result is a potential for misunderstanding and conflict in classrooms which are based on the Anglo middle class North American model, often with a woman teacher. Teachers should be sensitive to the patterns of interactional etiquette of their students. The successes and failures of a pilot television project, attempting to incorporate principles of Cree learning and teaching are described. The Cree speak two varieties of their own language as well as a distinctive variety of English. It is maintained that attempts to teach children to use standard English are ineffective and tend to make all teaching seem to the Cree like the imposition of an alien culture. (Author/JB)
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- 1979
40. The Politics of Language. Lektos: Interdisciplinary Working Papers in Language Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2.
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Louisville Univ., KY. Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics. and St. Clair, Robert N.
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The areas of language planning and the language of oppression are discussed within the theoretical framework of existential sociolinguistics. This tradition is contrasted with the contemporary models of positivism with its assumptions about constancy and quantification. The proposed model brings in social history, intent, consciousness, and other extensions of the data and combines them into a methodology of hermeneutics. These new perspectives not only ask different questions about how language is used in social terms, but it also makes radically different claims about how language is legitimized by the power elite who wield community power, and how people are socialized into external patterns of recognizable behavior that have salient values. The model accounts for many of the basic concepts regarding pluralism within the discipline of political science, and it provides a coherent treatment of such sociological endeavors as labelling theory, neo-symbolic interactionism, the sociology of knowledge, and phenomenological sociology. (SW)
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- 1978
41. Prior Knowledge and Bilingual Literacy. Lektos: Interdisciplinary Working Papers in Language Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2.
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Louisville Univ., KY. Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics. and St. Clair, Robert N.
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In this analysis of prior knowledge and bilingual literacy, it is suggested that the basis upon which cognitive decisions are made and nonvisual inferences are drawn comes from the background knowledge that the reader possesses as tacit or prior knowledge. It is claimed that the only model that can account for the pluralistic nature of language is the symbolic interactionism model. Reading is basically an interpretive process in which the reader is obligated to try to infer just what the author's message might be. In the case of a native speaker of a language reading materials in his native language, it can be assumed that comprehension is complete when the perspectives of the author and the reader are the same. Variations in reading comprehension may rest in part in incongruencies in socialization, the cognitive saliency of certain events from one's bibliographical history, or different strategies in approaching and processing new information. A reader approaches the printed page with preconceived notions, and this process is a kind of social interaction. A bilingual child may read the second language and incorrectly place connotations on the words based on the first language. The base of bilingual literacy and its implications for the inferencing process across cultures needs to be considered. (SW)
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- 1978
42. A Re-examination of the Black English Copula. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 66.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. and Baugh, John
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A corpus of Black English (BEV) data is re-examined with exclusive attention to the "is" form of the copula. This analysis differs from previous examinations in that more constraints have been introduced, and the Cedergren/Sankoff computer program for multivariant analysis has been employed. The analytic techniques that are used allow for a finer gradation of factors than is found in previous BEV copula research. This research has shown that NPs with determiners strongly favor both contraction and deletion rules, while NPs without determiners show no measurable impact on either rule. It is further demonstrated that, in the case of determiners, the variation must be attributed to grammatical forces. The adjective and locative categories, which were previously analyzed as a single constraint, are also separated and examined individually. Structural parallels to Jamaican Creole English emerged, lending strong support to Fasold's recent stages for the development of present tense "be" deletion in Black English, as well as reinforcing the Creole origin hypothesis. Finally, this analysis further substantiates the diachronic potential of the Cedergren/Sankoff program and demonstrates that variable rules can effectively identify cases of linguistic stability. (Author/AMH)
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- 1979
43. Psycho-Social Dynamics in Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study of Vietnamese Brothers. Bilingual Education Paper Series Vol. 7 No. 3.
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California State Univ., Los Angeles. Evaluation, Dissemination and Assessment Center. and Kessler, Carolyn
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For second-language learners, the narration of highly personal experiences that entail strong affective relations relies on the conceptual processes underlying language. Relating personal narratives in a second language may be a highly successful communicative use of language even though extensive linguistic information for that language is lacking. Expression of the conceptual aspect becomes critical. A comparison of the narrations by two Vietnamese brothers of their departure from Vietnam and their development of a new life in the United States indicates the powerful role of psychosocial dynamics in second language acquisition, which can set up either positive or inhibiting conditions for second language development. The use of spoken personal narratives that draw on the dynamics of immigration and resettlement appears to be an indicator of active engagement of second language acquisition processes. Findings suggest that second language acquisition researchers and practitioners should look beyond the acquisition of forms and functions to gain further insight into the acquisition process. (MSE)
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- 1983
44. York Papers in Linguistics No. 12.
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York Univ. (England). Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science., Harlow, S. J., Warner, A. R., Harlow, S. J., Warner, A. R., and York Univ. (England). Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science.
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A collection of papers on linguistics includes: "Italian Comparatives of Inequality with 'Che' and 'Di'" (Adrian C. Battye); "A Note on Passives in GPSG [Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar]" (Robert D. Borsley); "Reduplicated Constructions in Chinese and Questions of Generative Power" (Jonathan Calder); "A Note on Subcategorization, Constituent Order, and the Notion 'Head'" (Gerald Gazdar, Geoffrey K. Pullum); "Constituent Structure in Text-Copying" (Patrick D. Griffiths); "Gaps in Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar" (Steve J. Harlow); "Some Rhythm, Resonance and Quality Variations in Urban Tyneside Speech" (John K. Local); "A Methodology for Describing Socio-Linguistic Variability within Multi-lingual Settings in General and 'Interactive' and 'Reactive' Ethnic Processes in Language in Particular" (Ben Rampton); and "Ellipsis Conditions and the Status of the English Copula" (Anthony R. Warner). Three monographs are also reviewed. The monographs are on sentence particles in Cantonese, interracial friendship and communication among black and white adolescents, and Pacific linguistics. (MSE)
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- 1986
45. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Volume Ten.
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Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Poznan (Poland)., Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA., and Fisiak, Jacek
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This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "A Question of Imperatives" (Tom Wachtel); "Contrastive Sociolinguistics--Some Methodological Considerations" (Karol Janicki); "How to Describe Phonological Variation" (Thomas Herok, Livia Tonelli); "Towards a Contrastive Pragmalinguistics" (Philip Riley); "The Perception and Imitation of Aspiration by Polish Speakers" (Danuta Wolfram-Romanowska); "Some Aspects of the So-Called Verbal Deletion in English and Polish" (Malgorzata Gorna); "The Transfer of Communicative Competence" (Carl James); "Equivalence in Phonology: The Case of Finnish Stops vs. English Stops" (Kari Suomi); "Towards a Pedagogical Contrastive Phonology" (Wieslaw Awedyk); and "Contrastive Studies and Interlanguage" (Janusz Arabski). (MSE)
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- 1979
46. York Papers in Linguistics 14.
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York Univ. (England). Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science., Harlow, S. J., Warner, A. R., Harlow, S. J., Warner, A. R., and York Univ. (England). Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science.
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Papers on a variety of linguistic topics include six papers from a Festschrift and nine others, as follows: "Attitudes Towards English as a Possible Lingua Franca in Switzerland" (Urs Durmuller); "Functional Stability and Structural Levelling of Dialects: The Case of Maastricht" (Anton M. Hagen, Henk Munstermann); "On the Limits of Auditory Transcription: A Sociophonetic Approach" (Paul Kerswill, Susan Wright); "Current Language Planning and Policy in Catalonia" (Clare Mar-Molinero); "Constructive Beliefs and Political Reference" (John Wilson); Lexical Density in Interview and Conversation" (Subhi Zora, Catherine Johns-Lewis); "Reflections on Nominal Quantification in Three Romance Varieties: French, Italian, and Genoese" (Adrian Battye); "On the Notion of the Idiomatic Preposition: A Case Study from Italian" (Piero Bottari); "A Solution to the 'Must Of' Problem" (Richard Coates); "The 'No Crossing Constraint' in Autosegmental Phonology" (John Coleman, John Local); "Phrase Structure, Possessives, and Definiteness" (Christopher Lyons); "Processing Relative Clauses in Basque and Spanish" (Amaya Mendikoetxea); "A Pragmatic View of French Deixis" (John Charles Smith); "Confirmation and Repair: An Interactional Analysis of Redoing Sequences in Child-Adult Talk" (Clare Tarplee); and "The Range of Gapping and the Status of Auxiliaries" (Anthony R. Warner). (MSE)
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- 1989
47. Straight Talk and Sweet Talk: Political Discourse in a Community of Equals. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 71.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. and Brenneis, Donald
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Anthropologists have indicated that the need to act politically and to avoid the appearance of such action is marked in egalitarian societies. The perils of confrontation in such societies often foster indirect and highly allusive speech. This paper invesitgates the relationship between direct and indirect speech in an Indo-Fijian community which presents a case of the association of oblique oratory with an egalitarian social order. Two varieties of public performance are analyzed: (1) the "parbachan" or religious speeches which ostensibly deal with sacred topics but which carry a second, political message as well; and (2) the "panchayat," an ad hoc arbitration session organized to deal with a specific conflict in the community. Here issues, events, and individuals are discussed openly. While there is a range of political performances in this community, the dominant mode of conflict communication is indirection. Public political messages are deeply buried in religious speeches, and individual speakers cannot be held responsible for the secondary meanings. This accords with the notion that oblique reference is characteristic of political talk among equals. (AMH)
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- 1980
48. 'ADe': A Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Relationship. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 69.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. and Schieffelin, Bambi B.
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Recent studies have documented the importance of a variety of contextualization cues such as intonation, voice quality, volume, and pitch in conversation. The appropriate use of and response to them presupposes that one has certain kinds of linguistic and sociocultural knowledge. There remains, however, the question of how children acquire this knowledge. As a step toward understanding this acquisition process, this paper discusses how children among the Kaluli people in New Guinea learn about making and responding to requests based on a strategy of appeal. The particular type of interaction under study is called "ade." The relationship denoted by "ade" is one of caring and nurturing, and is a most important one in the society. The correct use of the term "ade" is important in evoking the "ade" relationship. The different aspects of the "ade" relationship in the contexts in which it is used in family interactions are examined. This examination includes ways in which children are taught to respond to requests based on appeal as well as the difficulties small children have in using the "ade" term appropriately. Finally a myth is presented which provides a larger ethnographic perspective to what the mother is trying to create in the relationship between her children. (AMH)
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- 1979
49. Code Switching and Code Superimposition in Music. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 63.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. and Slobin, Mark
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This paper illustrates how the sociolinguistic concept of code switching applies to the use of different styles of music. The two bases for the analogy are Labov's definition of code-switching as "moving from one consistent set of co-occurring rules to another," and the finding of sociolinguistics that code switching tends to be part of communicative strategy. At least two types of codes or styles seem to exist in music, diachronic and synchronic. Diachronic style pools exist in both classical and contemporary popular music. In many current sound recordings, both the past and present styles of music are incorporated in the same piece. Performers of contemporary music have to alternate styles to suite their audience. Another mode of code-switching is the superimposition of two sets of words on the same musical score. Three types of "ethnic code-switching" are apparently close to the concern of sociolinguistics. These are: (1) accomodation of the music to ethnically mixed audiences; (2) accomodating a minority culture's traditions to a mainstream musical piece; and (3) musical change brought about by contact between cultures. While many questions are left untouched, it is indicated that the analogies could lead to joint exploration of musical material by both ethnomusicology and sociolinguistics. (AMH)
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- 1979
50. The Impact of Management and Turn-Allocation Activities on Student Performance. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 65.
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Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. and Eder, Donna
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This paper examines the effect of a teacher's management and turn-allocation acts on student performance during reading group lessons in a first grade classroom. The class was observed and videotaped for a year, and interviews were conducted with both teacher and students. The study focuses specifically on cases where management, turn-allocation, and academic activities are performed simultaneously by the teacher. It shows through a discourse analysis that one of the consequences of this practice is the disruption of students' reading turns. During the disruption, often another student provides the correct word to a student who had been hesitating over it. When this happens too often, the students who know fewer words have less chance of learning to read. The results of the study suggest that it is crucial that management be minimized as much as possible because of its negative effects. They also indicate the importance of including non-verbal behavior in future research on turn taking. (AMH)
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- 1979
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