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Download full textMcGinn, Richard – 1989
A discussion of the animacy hierarchy in human discourse looks at the role of the hierarchy in three Western Austronesian languages: Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, and Rejang. Animacy corresponds to the degree of agency an entity has with a transitive verb as contrasted with the degree to which that entity may be the patient of a transitive verb. The…
Descriptors: Indonesian, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Matluck, Joseph H.; Mace-Matluck, Betty J. – 1975
This paper discusses the sociolinguistic problems inherent in multilingual testing, and the accompanying dangers of cultural bias in either the visuals or the language used in a given test. The first section discusses English-speaking Americans' perception of foreign speakers in terms of: (1) physical features; (2) speech, specifically vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
