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Emergence and Evolutions: Introducing Sign Language Sociolinguistics
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Kusters, Annelies; Lucas, Ceil – Sign Language Studies, 2022
In a Dialogue section of the "Journal of Sociolinguistics" (vol. 26, no. 1), author pairs introduce a number of themes and debates in sign language sociolinguistics, explore why these are debates; how the debates are situated within sociolinguistics as a whole; and how spoken language sociolinguistics does or does not have similar…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Sign Language, Speech Communication, Language Variation
Attitudes toward Turkish Culture and Social Cohesion of Turkish Learners as a Second Language
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Gülnur Aydin; Huriye Özlen Avaroglu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2023
This relational survey study aims to determine the relationship between the attitudes of students learning Turkish as a second language towards Turkish culture and their social cohesion. The participants were determined by criterion sampling. 189 international learners studying Turkish at various Turkish universities participated in the study. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Turkish
State Categories, State Vision and Vernacular Woes in Sweden's Language Politics
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Karlander, David – Language Policy, 2018
This article deals with the politics of classification in contemporary Sweden. It analyses the language political dispute that has developed over the language political regulation of Övdalsk, a non-standard form of Scandinavian spoken in Älvdalen in northern central Sweden. The analysis focuses on the ways in which a discursive exchange over…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Minorities, Swedish, Language Planning
The Segmented Mobility of Globally Mobile Academics: A Case Study of Foreign Professors at a Korean University
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Kim, Dongbin; Yoo, Sung-Sang; Sohn, Heekwon; Sonneveldt, Erin L. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
In this paper, we examine 15 academics who crossed national borders in response to the strong pull of recruiting efforts from a Korean university. These foreign professors at the case university are on tenure-stream and teach regular academic courses in various academic departments and colleges. By discussing their motivations for global mobility,…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, College Faculty, Case Studies, Foreign Nationals
Receptive Intelligibility of Turkish to Iranian-Azerbaijani Speakers
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Salehi, Mohammad; Neysani, Aydin – Cogent Education, 2017
Azerbaijani and Turkish are two closely-related languages from Oguz branch of Turkic languages, which are said to be mutually intelligible. Regarding this background, we designed an experiment within the framework of receptive multilingualism to investigate the role of linguistic factors in intelligibility of the Turkish language to Iranian…
Descriptors: Turkish, Turkic Languages, Receptive Language, Multilingualism
Enablements and Constraints: Inventorying Affordances Associated with Lingua Franca English
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Henry, Alastair – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Transcultural flows of capital, culture and communication have created conditions for the widespread movement of people around the globe, leading to increasing diversity in countries of destination. In contexts of global migration lingua franca English is indispensable in initial and survival communication. For migrants to northern European…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Swedish