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Journal articles on the topic "Diglossia (Linguistics) Language and languages Language and languages Diglossia (Linguistics) Bilingualism"
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Hudson, Alan. "Diglossia: A bibliographic review." Language in Society 21, no. 4 (December 1992): 611–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004740450001575x.
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ABSTRACTThe bibliography following the body of this paper contains a total of 1,092 entries on the subject of diglossia. Entries dealing with diglossia in the classical sense of Ferguson (1959) and in the sense of functional compartmentalization of distinct languages are represented approximately equally. Scholarly publication in the area of diglossia continues unabated as indicated by the fact that approximately one-half of the entries in the bibliography were published between 1983 and 1992. However, there remains a need for a comprehensive integration, comparative analysis, and socioevolutionary interpretation of diglossia research. (Bilingualism, diglossia, functional variation, literary languages, registers, standard languages, standardization)
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Denisova, E. A. "The mixing of language codes in anglophone postmodern literature." Professional Discourse & Communication 2, no. 1 (March 23, 2020): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2687-0126-2020-2-1-49-58.
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The study of the mixing of language codes on a par with linguistic and extralinguistic factors that determine peculiarities of the equal functioning of two (or more) languages in a communicative act or in a literary text, in particular an anglophone literary text, is studied at the interdisciplinary level and is relevant. Traditionally, the phenomenon of mixing language codes is considered as a separate aspect of language interactions, as well as in the context of such linguistic phenomena as: borrowings, interference, bilingualism, diglossia, code switching, etc. The interest of linguists to language mixtures arose in the middle of the 20th century. This is evidenced by works in the field of structural phonology theory, information theory, bilingualism theory, considering successfully coexisting language systems (two or more). In linguistics, as in the other interdisciplinary studies, today debates about the nature of bilingualism and the prerequisites for its occurrence take place. Traditionally, bilingualism is considered to be a forced phenomenon arising from the established use of two languages in society. However, we emphasize that the so-called tradition of using several languages in speech is not always present in society, unlike the Anglophone postmodern literature of the last century, where the presence of language mixtures (foreign language insertions) is one of the characteristic features. The key issue of this article is the Anglophone literary text created by bilingual bi-cultural writers using the strategy of language mixing (code switching) not only as a language game, but also as a full-fledged linguistic phenomenon, the mechanism of interaction of components of language insertions, demonstrating a certain style, cultural way of portrayed social and linguistic environment.The aim of the study is to analyze the language and speech activity of the characters of a certain language group on the material of the Anglophone literary text.
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Muñiz-Cachón, Carmen. "Prosody: A feature of languages or a feature of speakers?" Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations 16, no. 3 (December 31, 2019): 462–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.00047.mun.
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Abstract Social situations of language coexistence have resulted in linguistic manifestations of bilingualism and diglossia, including linguistic interference, lexical loans and code switching. What role does prosody play in social bilingualism? In other words, when contact between different languages is not restricted to the individual but affects an entire speech community, does a dominant prosody exist? Does prosody vary among different linguistic varieties? In order to find an answer to these questions, we hereby show the results of a research project on the prosodic features of Asturian and Castilian spoken in the centre of Asturias. This experimental study is based on the speech of four informants from Oviedo – two men and two women – two of which speak Castilian, while the other two speak Asturian.
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Fernández, Mauro. "Los Origenes del término diglosia." Historiographia Linguistica 22, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1995): 163–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.22.1-2.07fer.
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Summary This article reviews the history of the term ‘diglossia’, particularly from its first documented use by Rhoidis in 1885 to refer to the Greek linguistic situation, to Ferguson’s 1959 landmark article, in order to reveal its origin and process of circulation. The few authors who have dealt with the pre-Ferguson history of the term ‘diglossia’ depict it as a small series of isolated, sparsely scattered, barely connected occurrences. Contrary to this commonly accepted view, in this article it is argued that there existed a continuous use of the term in several languages between 1885 and 1959. It is suggested that this continuous use could have been inferred even from the scarce number of pre-Ferguson references which had been located previously. Some interpretations about the coinage of the term and the diffusion paths of these interpretations are discussed; it is shown why these accounts are inaccurate or highly implausible. Finally, focus is placed on the first documented usages of Greek διγλωσσία and French diglossie in 1885 to mean ‘two forms of the same language’. Contrary to the common opinion that διγλωσσία used to mean simply ‘bilingualism’, it is argued that this development is recent and follows the coinage of bilinguisme in French, bilingualism in English, bilinguismo in Italian, etc. Furthermore, any linguistic sense of the Greek term διγλωσσία is argued to be relatively recent; thus, Rhoidis’ pioneering use must be seen as a creative neologism based on the traditional sense of Greek διγλωσσία as “falsehood”, “hypocrisy”, “deceitfulness” or “double-tonguedness”.
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Li, David C. S. "The Functions and Status of English in Hong Kong." English World-Wide 20, no. 1 (November 5, 1999): 67–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.20.1.03li.
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This paper is an update of Luke and Richards' (1982) study on the functions and status of English in Hong Kong. The sociolinguistic matrix is described by outlining the distribution of the main functions of the two written languages standard written Chinese (SWC) and English, and the three spoken languages Cantonese, English and Putonghua, in four key domains: government, media, employment and education. Cantonese and English remain the most important spoken languages. The macro-sociolinguistic analysis "diglossia without bilingual-ism" has given way to polyglossia with increasing bilingualism. There are two written H varieties, SWC and English, the former is penetrating into some domains formerly dominated by the latter. Cantonese, typically interspersed with some English, is assigned L functions in both spoken and written mediums. There is some indication that Putonghua is getting increasingly important in post-colonial Hong Kong, but there are as yet no significant social functions assigned to it. Compared with the early 1980s, significant changes have taken place at all levels. Language-related changes are discussed in light of a critical review of recent local research in a number of areas: medium of instruction, language right, linguistic imperialism, Hong Kong accent, Hong Kong identity and language attitudes toward Chinese and English. In view of the tremendous social prestige and symbolic predominance of English, it is argued that "value-added" is a more suitable epithet than "auxiliary" to characterize the status of English in post-1997 Hong Kong.
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Valdés, Guadalupe, and Claudia Angelelli. "4. INTERPRETERS, INTERPRETING, AND THE STUDY OF BILINGUALISM." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 23 (March 2003): 58–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190503000199.
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In this chapter we present a brief overview of the literature on interpreting focused specifically on issues and questions raised by this literature about the nature of bilingualism in general. It is our position that research carried out on interpreting—while primarily produced with a professional audience in mind and concerned with improving the practice of interpreting—provides valuable insights about complex aspects of language contact that have not been thoroughly addressed by the existing literature on bilingualism. Examination of the literature emphasizing a category of bilinguals, who have been referred to as “true” bilinguals (Thiery, 1978a, b), provides perspectives on both individual and societal bilingualism that can complement, and possibly refocus, some current views of the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic characteristics of language contact. For applied linguists who study language minority populations around the world, the literature on interpreting suggests important new directions for research focusing on areas such as the process of high level development of two languages in diglossic contexts; the effects of instruction on the development of nonsocietal languages; the nature of language transfer; and the characteristics of communication between speakers of societal and nonsocietal languages.
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Matsumoto, Kazuko. "A restudy of postcolonial Palau after two decades." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30, no. 1-2 (June 30, 2020): 34–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.00044.mat.
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Abstract This paper reports results from a reinvestigation of multilingualism in postcolonial Palau, conducted twenty years after the first study. The first-ever ethnographic language survey conducted in 1997–1998 highlighted the diglossic nature of Palau where English replaced Japanese as the ‘high’ language, while indigenous Palauan remained as the ‘low’ spoken language. It indicated three possible future scenarios: (a) shift from multilingualism to bilingualism after the older Japanese-speaking generation passes away; (b) stability of diglossia with a clear social division between an English-speaking elite and a predominantly Palauan-speaking non-elite; (c) movement towards an English-speaking nation with Palauan being abandoned. The restudy conducted in 2017–2018 provides real-time evidence to assess the direction and progress of change, whilst the ethnographic analysis of recent changes in language policies and the linguistic analysis of teenagers’ narratives reveal the unpopularity of Palauan as a written language and the emergence of their own variety of English.
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Belmar, Guillem. "The Role of Translation in the Revitalization Process of Minority Languages: The Case of Basque." Sustainable Multilingualism 10, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 36–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sm-2017-0002.
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Summary All literature reflects the existing discourse in a given community, and translation –as a process of rewriting texts– is a readily accessible tool which linguistic minorities can use to shift power dynamics in their society or, at least, suggest new paradigms and new discourses. In this paper we analyze the key role which translation plays in the cultural systems of minority languages and how translation helps revitalize these languages. The aim of the paper is to defend this key role of translation in the revitalization processes of all minority languages and, at the same time, to highlight the main obstacles one may come across and to try to establish some basic guidelines which may be applied throughout all these processes to maximize their results. Therefore, this paper deals with language standardization, language planning, choice of texts to translate, source languages of the translations, target audience of the translations, diglossia, actual bilingualism, language orientation in translations and the dichotomy between originals written in the language and translations. In order to do so, we will first picture the theoretical frame upon which this paper is based and we will go on to discuss translation into Basque. Finally, we will establish a set of guidelines for other minority languages.
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Tóth, Gergely. "Bilingual Experience in the Hungarian and German Immigrant Communities of the San Francisco Bay Area." Hungarian Cultural Studies 5 (January 1, 2012): 362–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2012.92.
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Studies on the interaction of languages are gaining importance in today’s world, characterized by accelerated migration and increasing cultural exchange. Unlike most research in this field, which concentrate on one embedded language against a matrix language, this fieldwork-based study examines the linguistic life in two immigrant populations, Hungarian and German, against the background of English. The primary focus of this article is the description of the bilingual and bicultural experience of the two groups. The discussion of language and identity will take a central place in the paper, and diglossia, bilingualism, loyalty, and language as social behavior will also be touched upon (section 4). This is complemented by a socio-historical portrayal of these speech communities of San Francisco, set forth in the preceding section 3. Section 5 provides an outline of the informant sets, spanning three generations in each linguistic cohort, and illustrates the subjects’ attitude towards maintenance. The final, sixth section offers qualitative and quantitative comparative statements about the results of linguistic interference and the ongoing attrition process, thus contributing to our understanding of contact linguistic mechanisms, and shedding light on specific grammatical and lexical features that are most prone to attritional forces.
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Zopus, András. "Bilingualism and Diglossia as Sociocultural Phenomena in Romanian–Hungarian Translations in Transylvania." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 8, no. 3 (December 1, 2016): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0027.
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Abstract My study aims to scrutinize the extent to which bilingualism and diglossia influence Transylvanian translators’ texts when the target language is Hungarian. While studying the narrower and wider interpretations of these linguistic phenomena, we may find that all the conditions are given that are required for us to say: Transylvanian translators’ bilingualism and diglossia may be considered as facts, and socio-lingual effects become tangible in various translations.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Diglossia (Linguistics) Language and languages Language and languages Diglossia (Linguistics) Bilingualism"
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Broilo, Neto Gilberto. "Code-switching e footing para a construção do humor : estudo de caso da sitcom "Friends"." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2017. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/3243.
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Esta dissertação trata de code-switching e footing na sitcom estadunidense Friends. Tanto a troca linguística como o posicionamento identitário são elementos de análise da Sociolinguística Interacional (GOFFMAN, 1981; HUDSON, 1996; DURANTI, 1997), que é a teoria basilar desta investigação. Não somente aspectos teóricos desse arcabouço são utilizados como também estudos sobre humor (RASKIN, 1979; WRIGHT, 1875), sitcom (FURQUIM, 1999; SAVORELLI, 2010; VANDAELE, 1996), multimodalidade (GOODWIN, 2010; KRESS; LEEUWEN, 1996; VIEIRA; SILVESTRE, 2015), estereótipos (LAKOFF, 1987; SCHIAPPA; GREGG; HEWES, 2005), performance (TURNER, 1987), generalização social (BLUM, 2004), dentre outros. A fim de responder ao problema desta pesquisa, que reside em entender se o code-switching e o footing são mecanismos de geração do humor na sitcom Friends, optamos pelo estudo de caso dessa comédia seriada e pela investigação dos atos comunicativos em que se fazem presentes a alternância de código linguístico e o reposicionamento identitário. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é examinar a relação entre a geração de humor e as situações em que há a presença de code-switching entre Inglês Americano e do Inglês Britânico e de posicionamento entre variedades do Inglês Americano, além de considerar o posicionamento multimodal das interações comunicativas em episódios da sitcom Friends. Os objetivos específicos são (a) identificar os construtos identitários culturais na sitcom Friends, (b) identificar as situações de code-switching na geração de humor, (c) analisar situações de code-switching e aspectos multimodais na interação comunicativa e (d) analisar os efeitos do humor, com ênfase em fatores culturais intervenientes. Com a finalidade de cumprir com esses objetivos, alicerçamos nossa pesquisa, também, nos estudos de framing (GOFFMAN, 1974), que foram identificados nas cenas em que há code-switching e footing, que foram transcritas a partir da simbologia da Análise da Conversa (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974). Os resultados demonstram que, nos episódios da série Friends que foram analisados, o code-switching e o footing são mecanismos potenciais estratégicos de geração de humor que se formam em situações plurais com diversas funções de comicidade, tais como: sátira cultural, caricaturização estereotipada, representação da realidade, dentre outras.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2017-10-25T12:01:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Gilberto Broilo Neto.pdf: 2137616 bytes, checksum: dff4b5374bbd97c9f849d7dd7b3da707 (MD5)
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This dissertation is about code-switching and footing in the north-american sitcom Friends. Both the switch of language and the identity positioning are objects of analysis for the Interactional Sociolinguistics area (GOFFMAN, 1981; HUDSON, 1996; DURANTI, 1997), which is the main theory of this investigation. Not only theoretical aspects of this background are used but also studies about humour (RASKIN, 1979; WRIGHT, 1875), sitcom (FURQUIM, 1999; SAVORELLI, 2010; VANDAELE, 1996), multimodalidality (GOODWIN, 2010; KRESS; LEEUWEN, 1996; VIEIRA; SILVESTRE, 2015), estereotypes (LAKOFF, 1987; SCHIAPPA; GREGG; HEWES, 2005), performance (TURNER, 1987), social generalization (BLUM, 2004), among others. In order to solve the problem of this research, which resides in understanding whether both code-switching and footing are strategies of humour in the sitcom Friends, we opted for the case study of this situational comedy and for the investigation of the communicative acts in which the switch of linguistic codes and identity repositiong are found. The general objective of this research is to examine the connection between humour creation and the situations in which there is evidence of code-switching between American English and British English, positioning between American English varieties and the multimodal positioning of communicative interactions in episodes of the sitcom Friends. The specific objectives are (a) to identify the constructs of cultural identity in the sitcom Friends, (b) to identify the situations of code-switching in the humour generation, (c) to analyse the situations of code-switching and the multimodal aspects of the communicative act and (d) to analyse the effects of humour, highlighting the intervenient cultural aspects related to such effects. In order to fulfill these objectives, we, also, based our research on the studies of framing (GOFFMAN, 1974), which are identified in the scenes of code-switching and footing, being transcribed according to the Conversation Analysis symbolic conventions (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974). The results show that, in the episodes of the series Friends analysed, both code-switching and footing are potential strategic mecanisms to create humour formed in several situations through different comical functions, such as: cultural satire, stereotyped caricature, reality representation, among others.
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Walldoff, Amanda. "Arabic in Home Language Instruction : Language Acquisition in a Fuzzy Linguistic Situation." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145519.
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This thesis investigates the command 8th-graders in Arabic home language instruction have of written Modern Standard Arabic and if the type of instruction they have received and/or contact with written Arabic affect their performance. Background chapters discuss variables connected to the Arabic language (diglossia, research on reading and writing in Arabic) and variables connected to HLI in Sweden (set-up, steering documents). The testing material consisted of a translation test from Swedish to Arabic combined with a questionnaire that addressed various factors of relevance to language acquisition. The translations were analysed on three levels: (1) handwriting, (2) spelling and (3) morphosyntax. The main result of the analysis was that the participants were highly heterogeneous: some participants produced incomplete translations in handwriting that was barely legible, whereas others had good results for all measures. Many of the participants relied on a phonological strategy for spelling. For example, even short, high-frequency words such as personal pronouns and prepositions had not been spelled correctly. The results for handwriting, spelling and morphosyntax were checked against the variables (1) years of HLI, (2) extra instruction in Arabic outside of HLI and (3) contact with written Arabic in the free time. The results for the effect of participation in HLI were inconclusive. However, many, but not all, of the participants with good results on the translation test had received extra instruction in Arabic, either in Sweden or prior to coming to Sweden. Reading Arabic in the free time was not in all cases connected to good results, but not reading Arabic in the free time was in most cases connected to a low command of written Arabic. Regarding these results, it is suggested that additional factors (motivation, support from the family, etc.) could be at play. Previous research has addressed the question of heterogeneity in HLI classes. The findings of this thesis illustrate how great the heterogeneity can in fact be, and thus have implications for the set-up of Arabic HLI in Sweden.
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Harnafi, Amina. "El uso del valenciano, la actitud hacia la lengua y la destreza escrita : Un estudio sociolingüístico sobre el dominio del valenciano de jóvenes alicantinos." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131393.
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Los jóvenes de Alicante viven en una sociedad donde coexisten dos lenguas, el castellano y el valenciano. La lengua valenciana es utilizada por jóvenes de Alicante tanto en ámbitos formales como informales. Los jóvenes hablantes de valenciano sienten un lazo identificativo con la lengua que se rige por las actitudes de éstos. La actitud lingüística conlleva a una identificación lingüística del hablante, la cual es una construcción social que se rige por las normas que rodean al hablante. La identificación bilingüe podría, por lo tanto, ser influenciada e influenciar a su vez a la competencia lingüística. El propósito del presente estudio es investigar en qué situaciones y contextos es usado el valenciano; con el objetivo de estudiar la relación entre el grado de bilingüismo, la actitud lingüística y el nivel de complejidad, corrección y fluidez (CAF) en la expresión escrita del valenciano. Partimos de la hipótesis de que el valenciano tiene, para la generación joven de Alicante, una función social y que la actitud hacia la lengua es positiva, lo que a su vez se refleja en la destreza escrita. Para comprobar nuestra hipótesis nos hemos basado en un cuestionario de hábitos sociales, un test de nivel de valenciano y dos redacciones, una escrita en castellano y una en valenciano. Con la participación de 59 jóvenes alicantinos, llegamos a la conclusión de que el valenciano es usado tanto en ámbitos formales como informales y que la actitud hacia la lengua es positiva, y que consideran importante dominar y preservar el valenciano. Además, los participantes han presentado un nivel alto de destreza en el valenciano escrito, mostrando complejidad y fluidez en la expresión escrita. Por otro lado, la corrección es más elevada en el castellano. También se ha podido ver que la identificación de los participantes está relativamente correlacionada con la competencia lingüística.The young people of Alicante live in society where two languages, Castilian and Valencian, coexist. The Valencian language is used by young people from Alicante in both formal and informal settings. Young speakers of Valencian feel a linguistic identification with the language, which is governed by social norms. Bilingual identification could, therefore, be influenced by and influence linguistic competence. The purpose of this study is to examine in which situations and contexts Valencian is used with the aim of evaluating the relationship between the degree of bilingualism, language attitude and level complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) in the written Valencian of young people of Alicante. We hypothesized that Valencian has, for the young generation of Alicante, a social function and the attitude towards the language is positive, which in turn is reflected in writing skills. To test our hypothesis we have used a questionnaire of social habits, a diagnostic test in Valencian and two essays, written in Castilian and Valencian. With the participation of 59 young Alicantinos, we conclude that Valencian is used in both formal and informal settings, that the attitude towards the language is positive and that it is considered important to master and preserve the Valencian language. In addition, the participants have proficiency in the Valencian written language, showing complexity and fluency in written expression. On the other hand, their accuracy is higher in Castilian. It has also been seen that the linguistic identification of the participants is relatively correlated to linguistic competence.
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Johnson, Eric. "Trans-Cultural Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition: Understanding the Sociolinguistic Effects of International Tourism on Host Communities." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110052.
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This paper analyzes the nature of linguistic interactions between host communities and international tourists. The tourism-based context provides an excellent platform from which to describe the sociolinguistic influences that American tourists have had on Mexican communities. Specifically, the language use of local vendors in Puerto Peñasco/Rocky Point, Mexico, is described in terms of the various linguistic characteristics that constitute their particular dialect of English. Not only does this work emphasize the sociocultural foundation of language acquisition, it also illustrates the type of language that is learned in economically motivated situations. The results also emphasize how the growing ubiquity of (American) English in tourism contexts establishes distinct attitudes towards the United States and those who live there.
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Henriquez, Jesus. "De l’anonymat à la valorisation des langues indigènes : Le cas de la langue Tol et de la culture Tolpan dans la Montagne de la Fleur au Honduras." Thesis, Saint-Etienne, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STET2198/document.
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Cette recherche a été développée au sein de la communauté linguistique tolpan dans la Montagne de la fleur au Honduras. Son but est décrire leur situation sociolinguistique et se demander si elle réunit des éléments de menace, voire de danger pour la langue tol, ou au contraire de vitalité pour l'avenir. La mise en place d'un dispositif de recherche, par entretiens et observations empiriques nous a conduit aux résultats suivants : il s'agit d'une langue qui vit encore, son mécanisme de transmission est générationnel, les représentations des locuteurs sont positives sur leur langue, elle est perçue comme un des traits représentatifs de leur culture, elle même organisée autour d'un imaginaire collectif bien vivace. Nonobstant, nous avons mis au jour certains éléments qui semblent ne pas favoriser cette langue: l'envahissement de l'espace linguistique par l'espagnol langue officielle, le comportement non verbal qui paradoxalement semble nier le discours de fierté des Tolpans, les échanges asymétriques de communication, entre autres. Ce panorama évoque une situation diglossique où la langue tol est la langue dominée et l'espagnol la langue dominante.Donc, le tol, langue locale hondurienne fortement menacée malgré certains indices qui comptent en sa faveur. Des mesures urgentes seraient à prendre pour sa vitalisation: la scolarisation en langue tol, sa reconnaissance par un statut d'officialité et l'intégration de sa communauté tolpan comme égale aux autres Honduriens en termes sociaux, politiques, économiques et surtout culturels. Ce travail n'aurait pas pu être réalisé sans la collaboration des médiateurs tolpans, ou l'aide des amis qui partagent la passion pour les languesThis research develops within the linguistic community Tolpán in The Flower Mountain in Honduras. Its purpose is to describe the sociolinguistic situation by identifying signs of threat or danger to the Tol language, or conversely of vitality for the future of this language.For the last three years we have been involved in an investigation that through interviews and empirical observations has lead to the following results: Tol is a language that is still alive, the transmission mechanism is generational, representations of the speakers about their language are positive, Tol is regarded as a representative feature of their culture, which is organized around a strong living collective imagination.However, we have also identified some elements that do not sustained the perpetuation of this language: the invasion of its physical area by the Spanish language area, nonverbal behavior that paradoxically denies the discourse of tol speakers, and asymmetrical communication exchanges, among others. This picture evokes a situation of diglossia, where Tol language is Spanish- language dominated and the dominant language.We take responsibility to say that tol is seriously threatened despite some evidence in its favor in order to revitalize the language, some urgent measures could be taken: tol schooling, recognition to official status, and community integration of Tol as equal to other Honduran languages in the social, political, cultural and economic field as a whole.This study could have not been possible without the collaboration of the Tolpan mediators, the help of friends who in the area of their possibilities, and the love and passion they share for languages have lent a helping hand and to whom I gratefully thank
Esta investigacion se desarrolla al seno de la comunidad lingüistica tolpan de la Montana de la Flor en Honduras. El proposito es describir su situacion sociolingüistica mediante la identificacion de indicios de amenaza o peligro para la lengua tol, o por el contrario de vitalidad para el futuro de ésta lengua.La investigacion a través de entrevistas y observaciones empiricas nos conducen a los resultados siguientes: strata de una lengua que vive aun, su mecanismo de transmision es generacional, las representaciones de los hablantes acerca de su lengua son positivas, el tol es considerado coma un rasgo representativo de su cultura, la que se organizan en torno a un imaginario colectivo viviente y solido.No obstante, se han identificado algunos elementos que no favorecen esta lengua: la invasion del espacio lingüistico del espanol lengua oficial, el comportamiento no verbal que paradojicamente niega el discurso de los hablantes tol, los intercambios asimétricos de comunicacion, entre otros. Es evidente entonces una diglosia donde la lengua tol es la lengua dominada y espanol la lengua dominante.El tol es pues una lengua hondurena seriamente amenazada a pesar de algunos indicios en su favor. Con el fin de vitalizar esta lengua, se podrian tomar algunas medidas urgentes: la escolarizacion en tol, el reconocimienta un estatus de oficialidad, y la integracion de la comunidad tolpan como igual a otros Hondurenos en el campo social, politico, economico y sobre toda cultural. Este trabajo no hubiese sida posible sin la colaboracion de los mediadores tolpans, o la ayuda de amigos que comparten la pasion par las lenguas, cada uno desde su area y sus posibilidades
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Chivhanga, Ester. "The diglossic relationship between Shona and English languages in Zimbabwean secondary schools." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1943.
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The research highlights the problems of the diglossic relationship between Shona and English in the teaching-learning situation in Zimbabwe secondary schools. It focuses on how English as a high variety language adversely affects the performance of learners writing 'O' level Shona examinations in secondary schools. The research also confirms that teachers and learners of Shona in Zimbabwean secondary schools have a negative attitude towards Shona.
Finally, the use of English in the teaching of Shona, the less hours allocated to Shona, the low esteem of Shona vis-à-vis the dominance of English and the association of English with social mobility impact on the attitude of students towards Shona as a subject. This linguistic attitude coupled with orthographic problems causes low passes in Shona at 'O' level. Hence, one proposes, language awareness campaigns and the use of Shona in the teaching of practical criticism and grammar.African Languages
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Vacula, Richard. "Oživení regionálního jazyka v Provence prostřednictvím škol Calandreta." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-312183.
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Revitalization of the Regional Language in Provence by the Medium of Calandreta Schools Richard Vacula (Abstract) This thesis focuses on the role of bilingual Calandreta schools in the process of maintenance and revitalisation of the regional language in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, France. It is based on empirical research undertaken in form of questionnaires and directed interviews in the place of two existing Provençal Calandretas, Gap and Orange. A sample of the local population and respondents from the area of the two schools has been included in the research. We have studied linguistic behaviour, attitudes towards regional education, and the picture of the schools and the language in question. The results suggest that the public is inclined towards the essentials of the language being taught, however, less so towards bilingual education. The results also show that the potential of the schools observed lies rather in their pedagogical methods. The strong pressure of French is noticeable even on the grounds of the schools. The use of Occitan in everyday communication situations is then somewhat rare. The regional language is noticeably associated with the school environment and is connected with specific contexts. Hence, it is necessary to rate the influence of the Calandreta schools on the real...
Books on the topic "Diglossia (Linguistics) Language and languages Language and languages Diglossia (Linguistics) Bilingualism"
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Die Sprachkontaktsituation im Westhoek: Studien zum Bilinguismus und zur Diglossie im französisch-belgischen Grenzraum. Gerbrunn bei Würzburg: A. Lehmann, 1987.
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Grespan, Cristina. Bilinguismo. [Milano]: Società Dante Alighieri, Comitato di Milano, 1992.
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Jordanian Arabic between diglossia and bilingualism: Linguistic analysis. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
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William, Bright. Language variation in South Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Ruoss, Emanuel. Schweizerdeutsch und Sprachbewusstsein. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110610314.
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Abstract Little is known about the conditions that led to German-Swiss diglossia. Based on public discourse about Swiss German, the study shows that with respect to the history of language awareness, today’s typical bilingualism in Swiss German and standard German became consolidated in the 19th century in close relation to societal processes. The study is a major contribution to the linguistic history of German-speaking Switzerland.
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Language survival: A study of language contact, language shift, and language choice in Sweden. Göteborg: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Göteborg, 1985.
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Árokay, Judit, Jadranka Gvozdanović, and Darja Miyajima. Divided languages?: Diglossia, translation and the rise of modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic world. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.
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Kŭndae Han'gugŏ sigi ŭi ŏnŏgwan, munchagwan yŏn'gu: A study on the perspectives of language and letters in modern Korean period. Sŏul-si: Somyŏng Ch'ulp'an, 2014.
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Waḍʻ al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah bi-al-Maghrib: Waṣf wa-raṣd wa-takhṭīṭ. al-Rabāṭ: Manshūrāt Zawīyah, 2007.
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Bockovac, Timea. "Jezično stanje Hrvata u Mađarskoj – periferno istraživačko pitanje?" In Periferno u hrvatskom jeziku, kulturi i društvu / Peryferie w języku chorwackim, kulturze i społeczeństwie, 338–48. University of Silesia Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/pn.4038.19.
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This paper is address to the current state of the language of the Croatian national minority in Hungary, which is one of 13 autochthonous groups with rights granted by the constitution. Within this matter the correlation of official (state) and minority (Croatian) language politics is observed in the context of language rights, which primarily highlights supporting first language dominance and balancing bilingualism. The status of the Croatian minority today (2020) is regulated by legal directives and the most important issue is related to education (for instance, taking over institutions and publishing textbooks). However, there is a great need for sociolinguistic research on a macro level regarding cognitive linguistic representation. Applying results of such research is necessary for analyses of linguistic impacts, measuring the development of diglossia, and respectively for describing linguistic reality intertwined with identity that leads to the process of language planning.
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Elhariry, Yasser. "Word Over Word." In Pacifist Invasions. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940407.003.0002.
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The introduction defines the titular notion of pacifist invasions through two observations by Ferdinand de Saussure. With specific regard to multilinguistic coexistence, local idiom, diglossia, and the particular case of literary language, Saussure writes how “colonization [...] brings about changes in an idiom by transporting it into different surroundings,” and that while “invasion is the usual cause of [linguistic] superimposition [...] it may also come through peaceful [pacifique] penetration.” I contextualize and circumscribe the geographical and cultural politics of the kind of novel, layered linguistic transformations presented in Pacifist Invasions by chronicling the emergence of a pacifically invaded, bilingual Franco-Arabic text starting in the 1950s. Against what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has described as the shellshock of a “cultural bomb,” wherein writers think of “their past as one wasteland of non-achievement,” I introduce to the discussion a new, different constellation of international, cosmopolitan essayists, poets, and translators who are pushing the language question into a different realm. Next, through a re-evaluation of the debates around bilingualism in the 1980s with Abdelkébir Khatibi, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Abdelfattah Kilito, I introduce the importance of the Arabic script and the classical Arabic intertext to the Francophone lyric. I highlight the primary roles of translation studies and theories of intertextuality as tools for understanding the changes brought about in French through the on-going pacifist invasions.
Conference papers on the topic "Diglossia (Linguistics) Language and languages Language and languages Diglossia (Linguistics) Bilingualism"
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Krompák, Edina. "Diglossia and Local Identity: Swiss German in the Linguistic Landscape of Kleinbasel." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.7-2.
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The city of Basel is situated in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, in the geographic triangle of three countries: France, Germany and Switzerland. Everyday urban life is characterised by the presence of Standard German and Swiss German as well as diverse migrant languages. Swiss German is ‘an umbrella term for several Alemannic dialects’ (Stepkowska 2012, 202) which differ from Standard German in terms of phonetics, semantics, lexis, and grammar and has no standard written form. Swiss German is predominantly used in oral forms, and Standard German in written communication. Furthermore, an amalgamation of bilingualism and diglossia (Stepkowska 2012, 208) distinguishes the specific linguistic situation, which indicates amongst other things the high prestige of Swiss German in everyday life. To explore the visibility and vitality of Swiss German in the public display of written language, we examined the linguistic landscape of a superdiverse neighbourhood of Basel, and investigated language power and the story beyond the sign – ‘stories about the cultural, historical, political and social backgrounds of a certain space’ (Blommaert 2013, 41). Our exploration was guided by the question: How do linguistic artefacts – such as official, commercial, and private signs – represent the diglossic situation and the relation between language and identity in Kleinbasel? Based on a longitudinal ethnographic study, a corpus was compiled comprising 300 digital images of written artefacts in Kleinbasel. Participant observation and focus group discussions about particular images were conducted and analysed using grounded theory (Charmaz 2006) and visual ethnography (Pink 2006). In our paper, we focus on signs in Swiss German and focus group discussions on these images. Initial analyses have produced two surprising findings; firstly, the visibility and the perception of Swiss German as a marker of local identity; secondly, the specific context of their display.