New Perspectives On Mixed Languages

Author : Maria Mazzoli,Eeva Sippola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511257

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New Perspectives on Mixed Languages by Maria Mazzoli,Eeva Sippola Pdf

A growing number of language varieties with diverse backgrounds and structural typologies have been identified as mixed. However, the debate on the status of many varieties and even on the existence of the category of “mixed languages” continues still today. This volume examines the current state of the theoretical and empirical debate on mixed languages and presents new advances from a diverse set of mixed language varieties. These cover well-known mixed languages, such as Media Lengua, Michif, Gurindji Kriol, and Kallawaya, and varieties whose classification is still debated, such as Reo Rapa, Kumzari, Jopará, and Wutun. The contributions deal with different aspects of mixed languages, including descriptive approaches to their current status and origins, theoretical discussions on the language contact processes in them, and analysis of different types of language mixing practices. This book contributes to the current debate on the existence of the mixed language category, shedding more light onto this fascinating group of languages and the contact processes that shape them.

Author : Muriel Norde,Bob de Jonge,Cornelius Hasselblatt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288431

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Language Contact by Muriel Norde,Bob de Jonge,Cornelius Hasselblatt Pdf

The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these papers, contact-induced change in a wide variety of languages is approached from various perspectives, reflecting the current state of affairs in language contact studies. The first main theme in the volume is related to the linguistic effects of migration, both in the present and in the past, and both in the standard language spoken by ethnic minorities, and in immigrant languages that are influenced by the standard. The second theme concerns border areas, a traditional treasure trove for the study of contact phenomena. The third theme is about contact effects without physical contact, as well as the role played by translators in this process.

Author : BethAnne Paulsrud,Jenny Rosén,Boglárka Straszer,Åsa Wedin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783097838

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New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education by BethAnne Paulsrud,Jenny Rosén,Boglárka Straszer,Åsa Wedin Pdf

This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. The chapters provide rich empirical research and document translanguaging in varied educational contexts, with studies from pre-school to adult education in different, mainly European, countries, where English is not the dominant language. Together they expand our understanding of translanguaging and how it can be applied to a variety of settings. This book will be of interest to students and researchers, especially in education, language education and applied linguistics, as well as to professionals and policymakers.

Author : Nourollah Zarrinabadi,Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030676346

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New Perspectives on Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language by Nourollah Zarrinabadi,Mirosław Pawlak Pdf

This edited collection provides a state-of-the art overview of research on willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second and foreign language. In particular, it includes innovative studies seeking to demonstrate the ways in which WTC can be examined within the framework of complex dynamic systems, how the construct is related to self-assessment, reticence and extroversion, and what is signifies in the case of immigrants. Another group of papers is related to the role of technology in fostering WTC in different contexts. The volume also comprises papers that touch on methodological issues in the study of WTC such as experience case sampling, the network approach or the integration of the macro- and micro-perspective. The book will be of values to researchers interested in the study of WTC but will also provide inspiration for students, teachers and materials writers.

Author : Miriam Neigert
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823301639

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New Perspectives on Older Language Learners by Miriam Neigert Pdf

Young-old learners are an underresearched group in foreign/second language research. The present mixed-methods study aims to provide a more differentiated view of this group in the context of lifelong learning and, more specifically, learning English as a foreign language. The author draws from concepts in gerontology, psychology, adult education, and foreign/second language research to investigate the L2-self-concepts of young-old language learners at Volkshochschulen in Germany.

Author : Mark Sebba,Shahrzad Mahootian,Carla Jonsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136486203

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Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing by Mark Sebba,Shahrzad Mahootian,Carla Jonsson Pdf

"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection of new work on the alternation of languages in written form. Written language alternation has existed since ancient times. It is present today in a great deal of traditional media, and also exists in newer, less regulated forms such as email, SMS messages, and blogs. Chapters in this volume cover both historical and contemporary language-mixing practices in a large range of language pairs and multilingual communities. The research collected here explores diverse approaches, including corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, literacy studies, ethnography, and analyses of the visual/textual aspects of written data. Each chapter, based on empirical research of multilingual writing, presents methodological approaches as models for other researchers. New perspectives developed in this book include: analysis specific to written, rather than spoken, discourse; approaches from the new literacy studies, treating mixed-language literacy from a practice perspective; a focus on both "traditional" and "new" media types; and the semiotics of both text and the visual environment.

Author : Eline Zenner,Gitte Kristiansen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514305

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New Perspectives on Lexical Borrowing by Eline Zenner,Gitte Kristiansen Pdf

This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. The eight studies in this volume introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological innovations to the study of lexical borrowing. These new perspectives significantly enhance our understanding of lexical borrowing and provide new insights into contact-induced variation and change.

Author : Umberto Ansaldo,Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000221480

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The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Umberto Ansaldo,Miriam Meyerhoff Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a rich socio-historical context, this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into three sections, its analysis covers: Space and place – areal perspective on pidgin and creole languages Usage, function and power – sociolinguistic and artistic perspectives on pidgins and creoles, creoles as sociocultural phenomena Framing of the study of pidgin and creole languages – history of the field, interdisciplinary connections Demonstrating how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are, how rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.

Author : Silvia Ballarè,Guglielmo Inglese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110781168

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Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation by Silvia Ballarè,Guglielmo Inglese Pdf

Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology. In spite of their similar research agendas, the two approaches have only rarely converged in the description and interpretation of variation. While a number of studies attempting to address at least aspects of this relationship have appeared in recent years, a principled discussion on how the two disciplines may interact has not yet been carried out in a programmatic way. This volume aims to fill this gap and offers a cross-disciplinary venue for discussing the bridging between sociolinguistic and typological research from various angles, with the ultimate goal of laying out the methodological and conceptual foundations of an integrated research agenda for the study of linguistic variation.

Author : Evangelia Adamou,Yaron Matras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351109147

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact by Evangelia Adamou,Yaron Matras Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including: experimental and observational approaches and formal theories; a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing; the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, the four sections of this text deal with methodological and theoretical approaches, the factors that condition and shape language contact, the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in language contact in particular regions of the world, including Anatolia, Eastern Polynesia, the Balkans, Asia, Melanesia, North America, and West Africa.

Author : Gabriel Said Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136700774

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New Perspectives on the Qur'an by Gabriel Said Reynolds Pdf

This book continues the work of The Qur’ān in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’ān and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur’ān’s own conversation with the religions and literatures of its day. Particular attention is paid to recent debates and controversies in the field, and to uncovering the Qur’ān’s relationship with Judaism and Christianity. After a foreword by Abdolkarim Soroush, chapters by renowned experts cover: method in Qur'ānic Studies analysis of material evidence, including inscriptions and ancient manuscripts, for what they show of the Qur'ān’s origins the language of the Qur'ān and proposed ways to emend our reading of the Qur'ān how our knowledge of the religious groups at the time of the Qur'ān’s emergence might contribute to a better understanding of the text the Qur'ān’s conversation with Biblical literature and traditions that challenge the standard understanding of the holy book. This debate of recent controversial proposals for new interpretations of the Qur'ān will shed new light on the Qur’anic passages that have been shrouded in mystery and debate. As such, it will be a valuable reference for scholars of Islam, the Qur’an, Christian-Muslim relations and the Middle East.

Author : Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642208492

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New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching by Mirosław Pawlak Pdf

The volume constitutes an attempt to capture the intricate relationship between individual learner differences and other variables which are of interest to theorists, researchers and practitioners representing such diverse branches of applied linguistics as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics or language teaching methodology. It brings together contributions by Polish and international authors, including leading experts in the field, touching upon changing perspectives on individual variation, cognitive, affective and social variables, learning deficits as well as their impact on learning and teaching. It offers a multifaceted perspective on these problems and shows how theory and research can be translated into classroom practice.

Author : James R. Dow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : OCLC:22320648

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New Perspectives on Language Maintenance and Language Shift by James R. Dow Pdf

Author : Sarah Josefine Schaefer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350293212

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New Perspectives on Language Mobility by Sarah Josefine Schaefer Pdf

The diffusion of English and the increasing mediatization of our globalized world have significant impacts on our perceptions of language and culture. Beginning with an overview of how the conceptualization of language is currently debated in sociolinguistics and related fields, this book highlights the need for a new perspective on language mobility. Through examining the use of English on German radio morning shows, the book explores the dynamics of language use in times of accelerated globalization and provides insights into how the media operate within the global flows of messages and linguistic resources that characterize our mediatized societies. In doing so, it demonstrates how combining the different perspectives of a sociolinguistics of mobility and contact linguistics allows for a thorough investigation of language practices in society, and advances the theoretical and practical approaches to the study of language mobility as a result.

Author : John A. Holm,Susanne Michaelis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : 0415403774

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Contact languages by John A. Holm,Susanne Michaelis Pdf

Contact has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires, those of colonial expansion, and to those of our globalizing planet today. Pidgin and creole studies have merged with the study of other language contact phenomena (adult second-language acquisition, bilingualism, bilingual mixed languages, language shift, partially restructured languages, language attrition, etc.) to form the flourishing field of contact linguistics. This new Routledge Major Work brings together the most important contributions advancing our understanding of language contact phenomena. Its five volumes cover almost two hundred years of scholarship and provide researchers and students with an overview of how insights about the new languages that emerged as a result of European expansion to Africa, Asia, the New World and the Pacific have led to a clearer view of what language is. Beginning fitfully in the mid-nineteenth century and then gathering momentum after 1960, the field of pidgin and creole linguistics has developed from a marginal field associated with the stigma of the languages it studied to a subfield which is now at the centre of linguistic enquiry.