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Harris, John, Ed.; And Others – 1986
This collection of symposium papers on varieties of the English language used in Ireland includes: "The Role of Irish English in the Formation of Colonial Englishes," by P. Trudgill; "Anglo-Irish Verse in Translation from Irish," by P. L. Henry; "The Methodology of Urban Language Studies," by J. Milroy;…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
Download full textAuger, Julie, Ed. – 1988
Student papers presented at a sociolinguistics conference include: "La variation phonologique [d'une voyelle] a Hull"; "La force illocutoire des pronoms personnels 'je' et 'tu' en tant qu'insignes des places d'ou parlent les femmes et les hommes"; "L'emploi des modes indicatif et subjonctif dans le francais parle de la…
Descriptors: Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French
Hairston, Maxine C., Ed.; Selfe, Cynthia L., Ed. – 1981
Nine selected papers presented at the Texas Writing Research Group's 1981 conference are offered in this collection. The papers discuss (1) sources of linguistic interference among American minorities; (2) contributions of discourse analysis to composition; (3) emerging notions of heuristic (investigative), eristic (controversial), and protreptic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, History, Language Variation
Bissonnette, Ronald; Ouellet, Micheline – 1989
The following are English translations of the titles of student research papers from a university conference on linguistics: "The Onomastic Syntagm in Geology: A Comparative Study of English and French"; "Hunting Ideology Through Discourse Analysis"; "Peculiarities of Canadian French (Archaisms and Pronunciation): An…
Descriptors: Body Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Courseware, Cultural Traits
Ho, Dah-an, Ed.; Tseng, Chiu-yu, Ed. – 1994
This publication of proceedings, most in English and some in Chinese, of a conference on Chinese languages and linguistics include the following papers: "On Rule Effect and Dialect Classification" (Chin-Chuan Cheng); "Cross-Linguistic Typological Variation, Grammatical Relations, and the Chinese Language" (Bernard Comrie);…
Descriptors: Affixes, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Embleton, Sheila, Ed. – 1998
Forty-one papers on language research and linguistic theory from the annual conference address these topics: linguistic philosophy; aspects of phonetics and phonology; topics in syntax; aspect; topics in semantics; topics in discourse analysis; sociolinguistics and language contact; historical linguistics; metatheory; and interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Canada Natives, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages
Belyazid, Fatima Zahra, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Thirty-five papers, all but one in French, presented at the conference on research in linguistics are presented here. Topics include: verb tenses in English; computerized text analysis program; study of specialized terminology; court translation in Canada; subject-verb agreement in English; bilingual editing; swearing with religious words;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Languages, Bilingual Education, Child Language
