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Download full textLawson, Edwin D.; Phillips, Valerie A. – Onomastica Canadiana, 1985
The nature and use of names are the focus of a resarch report published in a Canadian journal. The article presents the results of a study of college and university sports teams' nicknames, including major categories of names (human, animal world, mythical, etc.), and frequency of names. The report concludes with a discussion of the social…
Descriptors: Athletics, Foreign Countries, Geography, Higher Education
Barbara, Leila, Ed.; Rajagopalan, Kanavillil, Ed. – DELTA: Revista de Documentacao de Estudos em Liguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 1998
This document consists of three issues of DELTA, comprising its entire output for 1998. DELTA is a journal of theoretical and applied linguistics and covers a wide variety of material related to language, speech, and education. The journal publishes only original research and ideas presented in the form of articles, debates, squibs, overviews,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Bibliographie Moderner Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1994
The four 1994 issues of this serialized bibliography on modern second language teaching are included. Each contains citations of recently-published literature on a variety of aspects of language teaching. An introductory section describes the contents and format and lists the periodicals, publishers, and organizations that are the citations'…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Language Research
Py, Bernard, Ed.; Rubattel, Christian, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (TRANEL), 1989
Three papers in linguistics, all in French, are presented. "La delocutivite lexicale en francais standard: esquisse d'un modele derivationnel" ("Lexical Delocutivity in Standard French: Sketch of a Derivational Model"), by Marc Bonhomme, examines the process by which certain expressions become neologisms. "La terminologie…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French, Geographic Distribution
Bauman, John – Material Writers Newsletter, 1996
Intended for writers of instructional materials for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL), the list describes word lists and language corpora that may be of use in creating, simplifying, and refining vocabulary content in ESL materials. The sources are dated from 1944 to the present, and include a freeware computer program. Some limited…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Information Sources, Instructional Materials
University of Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993
In this volume, five working papers are presented. "Minimal Signs and Grammar" (Lars Hellan) proposes that a significant part of the "production" of grammar is incremental, building larger and larger constructs, with lexical objects called minimal signs as the first steps. It also suggests that the basic lexical information in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), German, Grammar
Fukuda, Takashi – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1997
The study presents a grammar of Eastern Bontoc, an Austronesian language of the northern Philippines that includes five village dialects and has about 8,000 speakers. Data are from transcribed recordings of primarily one dialect, gathered in 1977-80. The discourse-oriented grammar is outlined in six chapters: an introduction to the language, its…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Ray, M. J., Ed. – 1988
Five studies of aboriginal language use in Australia's Northern Territory include: (1) "Yanyuwa--A Dying Language" (Jean F. Kirton), which outlines the factors contributing to the demise of the use of Yanyuwa since 1963 and the trend toward use of Kriol; (2) "Kriol in the Barkly Tableland" (Phillip L. Graber), presenting…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics
PDF pending restorationOtanes, Fe T.; Wrigglesworth, Hazel – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1992
Four topics covered in this volume include a pedagogical grammar of Tboli (Vivian M. Forsberg), Bantoanon phonology (Heather Kilgour and Gail Hendrickson), demonstratives in Aklanon narratives (Kristine Jensen and Rodolfo Barlaan), and behavioral discourse strategy in Eastern Bontoc (Takashi Fukuda). Tboli is a language spoken by people living in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1991
The four issues of this journal published in 1991 contain the following articles: "Suggestology in the USSR"; "Integrated Short-term Intensive Course Structure; "Teaching Teachers to Teach"; "Sociopsychological Aspects of Intensive Teaching"; "The Method of Intensive Learning in the Context of Modern…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Otanes, Fe T., Ed.; Hale, Austin, Ed. – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1988
This collection contains three papers on the Cotabato Manobo language and culture and one on a variety of cultures. "Cotabato Manobo Grammar" by Harland Kerr is an extensive description of the grammar focusing on syntactic relationships within it. "Cotabato Manobo Ethnography" by Harland Kerr is a 1957 ethnographic study based…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Traits, Ethnic Stereotypes, Ethnography
Yanaprasart, Patchareerat, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2002
The articles, written in French, in this issue refer to research and intercultural practices with regard to confrontational situations between two or more cultural systems. The titles are as follows: "La culture universitaire comme culture en soi" (The University Culture as a Culture in Its Own Right) (Aline Gohard-Radenkovic);…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
University of Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993
In this volume, five working papers are presented. "Accessing Contexts with Intonation" (Thorstein Fretheim) discusses the use of intonation as a tool for understanding the context of an utterance, particularly in combination with reference. Examples are offered in Norwegian. In "'Altsa' and 'Nemlig': Two Views of Causality"…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Intonation
Tang, Gladys, Ed. – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1993
Papers in this issue include the following: "Code-Mixing in Hongkong Cantonese-English Bilinguals: Constraints and Processes" (Brian Chan Hok-shing); "Information on Quantifiers and Argument Structure in English Learner's Dictionaries" (Thomas Hun-tak Lee); "Systematic Variability: In Search of a Linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Chinese, Code Switching (Language), Dictionaries
Ting-Toomey, Stella, Ed.; Korzenny, Felipe, Ed. – International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 1989
Dealing with the relationships among language, communication, and culture, the 12 papers in this collection are divided into three parts. The first part deals with the critical issues related to language acquisition, context, and cognition. The second part presents an array of perspectives in analyzing the role of language in comparative…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Studies
