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Peer reviewedSeliger, Herbert W. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
This article proposes that language contact can be best understood if the entire range of such situations from second language learning to evolution of dialects and creoles is studied within a framework analogical to the symbiosis of living organisms. Language contact is viewed in terms of dynamic evolutionary stages. (CHK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Ecology, Evolution, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedBrend Ruth M. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Misunderstandings and impoliteness can occur among people from different countries because of differences in cultures and languages. Observations about British, American, and other European cultures concern set phrases, word connotations, intonation, forms of address and reference, grammar, and nonverbal behavior. (SW)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
