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Download full textTian, Xiufeng – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article aims at the feature analysis of four expository essays (Text A/B/C/D) written by secondary school students with a focus on the differences between spoken and written language. Texts C and D are better written compared with the other two (Texts A&B) which are considered more spoken in language using. The language features are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English, Oral Language, Written Language
Direct linkRajagopalan, Kanavillil – Applied Linguistics, 2010
The term "intelligibility" is widely viewed as denoting an ideologically neutral concept and therefore useful in speculating about the future of the English language, especially in the context of its expansion at the current exponential rate and the danger or otherwise of its breaking up into mutually incomprehensible languages, the way Latin did…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning
Bai, B. Lakshmi – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper is an attempt to study empirically a sample of spoken narratives of Hindi, Telugu and Dakkhini speakers in the multilingual setting of Hyderabad. After a brief account of multilingualism and variation within a language as commonly occurring phenomena, the paper examines the spoken narratives of the three languages mentioned above with a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Personal Narratives, Expressive Language, Indo European Languages
Otheguy, Ricardo – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
In an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of language contact, Toribio elaborates on the familiar generalization, best known from the work of Silva-Corvalan, that contact varieties resemble monolingual lects of the same language in overall grammar, but differ with regard to (a) the selection of structures and (b) the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Peer reviewedMorales, Amparo – Hispania, 1997
Discusses the Puerto Rican dialect and its peculiar placement of subject pronouns. Notes the linguistic variety in the dialect as well as its use of verbs connotating mental and communicative activity and constructions of relativity. These distinctions give rise to the functional hypothesis to account for the peculiarities of Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dialect Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Erbaugh, Mary S. – 1984
While all languages use shape to classify unfamiliar objects, some languages as diverse as Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, Mohawk, and American Sign Language lexicalize these and other types of description as noun classifiers. Classification does not develop from a fixed set of features in the object, but is discourse-sensitive and invoked when it would…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Sign Language, Child Language, Classification
