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Download full textBirner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure discusses, in lay terms, how languages change and how English in particular has gone through much alteration over the ages. It explains that languages change because: the needs of its speakers change; individual experience differs, and, therefore, the uses of language differ; new words are brought in from other languages or created…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English, Grammatical Acceptability
Peterson, Leighton C. – 1997
Since 1986, KTNN Radio (tribally owned) has broadcast Navajo-language programming to the entire Navajo Nation. Its large broadcast range and position as the "Voice of the Navajo Nation" gives KTNN the "symbolic" power to affect linguistic change, as well as the unenviable position of being held to a high language standard although no such…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Dialects, Language Maintenance, Language Styles
Campos, Sonia E. – 2000
This study analyzes the use and distribution patterns of the Discourse Marker (DM) "You Know" in interviews with members of a Hispanic folklore dance troupe. The study attempts to demonstrate how the use of this DM expresses identity among Hispanic females and if its use is affected by the ethnic labels each speaker uses. By assessing…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Education, Dialects
