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Willis, Linda-Dianne; Exley, Beryl – English in Australia, 2016
The Language Strand of the Australian Curriculum: English (Australian Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2016b) includes the sub-strand of "Language Variation and Change". This sub-strand is a marked space for discovery and discussion of the history and politics of language use. As such, this sub-strand points to…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English Curriculum, Language Usage, Educational History
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Trudgill, Peter – Language Sciences, 1982
Examines several areas where traditional work in dialectology has proven inadequate. Outlines specific areas where sociolinguistics can make a substantial contribution. Discusses (1) the bias in dialectology toward the historical; (2) the relative lack of attention paid to the heterogeneity of the speech community and the variability of speech;…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Usage, Regional Dialects
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McDavid, Raven I., Jr. – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
Current work in American dialectology is summarized and commented on. (Available from: See FL 508 214.) (RM)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Research, Language Usage
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Sternglass, Marilyn S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Students, Dialect Studies, Language Usage
Awa, Njoku E. – 1974
The first section of this paper is a general discussion of standard English. The nine sections which follow discuss the concept of correctness and the ideological differences between grammarians and purists; standard English in a historical perspective; Eric Partridge's (1969) taxonomy of the degrees and kinds of standard English, including…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialect Studies, Educational Research, Language Patterns
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Hill, Peter – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1977
This discussion of standard language and dialect is based on opinions and theories regarding Slavonic languages. A set of objective criteria is offered. Distinctions between language, standard language, dialect, glottolect and sociolect are made, and social and political conditions which give rise to them are discussed. References are included.…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language, Language Classification
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Prado, Marcial – Hispania, 1977
The uses of the eleven Spanish clitic pronouns are discussed for various regional dialects and formal and colloquial speech in Spain and Latin America. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Styles, Language Usage
Ford, James F. – Florida FL Reporter, 1974
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Language Usage
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Adamson, Anita – 1971
Drawing on phonological, grammatical, and usage data collected during personal interviews and taped sessions, this paper seeks to determine whether and how persons of Finnish descent, collectively or individually by generation, constitute dialect islands within the local dialect area (Marquette, Michigan), and their effect upon one another. The…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Diglossia
Ney, James W. – 1973
An extrinsic relationship between generative semantics and dialect geography should be exploited because contemporary transformational grammarians have too easily ignored the work of the dialectologist and have been too readily satisfied with what might be called armchair evidence. The work of the dialect geographers needs to be taken into…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Higher Education, Language Usage
Davis, A. L., Ed. – 1969
This report is designed to aid the college instructor preparing prospective English teachers in the area of dialect studies. It includes a general description of the nature of dialect, teaching suggestions, and an extensive annotated bibliography. The articles which make up the report are as follows: "Historical, Regional and Social…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth
Billiard, Charles E. – 1975
This paper describes a graduate course for language arts teachers at Georgia State University in Atlanta, titled Social Dialects and Language Learning. Classroom procedures and activities in the course were organized into five cumulative, related phases to engage the teachers in useful fieldwork in order to achieve major objectives of the course.…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Higher Education, Language Usage, Linguistics
Brandes, Paul D.; Brewer, Jeutonne – 1977
The stated intent of this book is to "contribute to the development of more socially aware and more linguistically oriented classroom teachers and to provide these teachers with methods for implementing their new awareness." Four sections provide chapters that discuss various aspects of the phenomenon of dialect clash. A historical…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
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Leok Har Chan – 1974
This paper discusses the dialects of the Chinese people who have settled in various countries of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Laos, North and South Vietnam, and the Khmer Republic. Data are first given regarding the area in general. The data are then broken down according to individual…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Underwood, Gary N. – 1974
This paper reports on the Arkansas Language Survey, which had two purposes: (1) to explore the idea advanced by Labov that Americans generally have negative attitudes about their language, and to see to what extent this applies to Arkansawyers; and (2) to determine how Arkansawyers judge the way other Americans speak English. The twenty-four white…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Language Usage
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