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Yan Jia; Suzanne Aalberse; Leonie Cornips – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
This article focuses on cultured identity construction via linguistic stylization among young domestic and external Chinese migrants. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, China and the Netherlands, this study contends that self-defined "Hanfu" fans stylize the classical "Wenyan" register to invoke and align with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Self Concept, Cross Cultural Studies
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Tamošiunaite, Aurelija – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates the lexical representation of sincerity in Lithuanian epistolarity throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on data from the corpus of Lithuanian letters and employing the techniques of corpus, statistical and philological analysis, this paper explores the use, frequency and context of occurrence of the four sets of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Indo European Languages, Computational Linguistics, Letters (Correspondence)
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Wagner, Esther-Miriam; Connolly, Magdalen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This paper investigates code-switching and script-switching in medieval documents from the Cairo Geniza, written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script), Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Legal documents regularly show a macaronic style of Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew, while in letters code-switching from Judaeo-Arabic to Hebrew is tied in with…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Semitic Languages, Medieval Literature, Written Language