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Direct linkTamburelli, Marco – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
Dominant notions of what constitutes a "language" and what a "dialect" within a continuum are entirely based on sociopolitical factors (i.e. the "languages by 'Ausbau'" of Kloss), totally disregarding structural and communicative aspects. This paper argues that such stance is no longer tenable in view of the modern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Dialects, Language Attitudes
Wilson, James – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
This study reports on the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from Moravia (in the east of the Czech Republic) living at a hall of residence in Prague, Bohemia (an area covering the west/central parts of the Czech Republic). In Bohemia, Moravian dialects and Standard Czech (SC)--an archaic and semi-artificial standard dialect that is…
Descriptors: College Students, Dialects, Linguistic Theory, Foreign Countries
Pakir, Anne – World Englishes, 2010
Much research on world Englishes (WE) since the 1980s has yet to impact significantly upon recent applied linguistics work in the areas of instruction, curriculum, testing and policy. Much of the received wisdom has been informed by the paradigm established by the earlier study of International English (IE) and its attendant foci in teaching…
Descriptors: Models, Mutual Intelligibility, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Download full textBickford, J. Albert – 1989
A study of dialectal variation in Mexican Sign Language (MSL), the primary language for a large segment of Mexico's deaf community, is presented. Signs used by nine different sources representing various locations, ages, and social groups are compared. The first section reviews a number of previous informal assessments of dialectal variation in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Cornali, Sandra Galli – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 1998
Scaffolding strategies occurring in interactions between speech pathologists and migrant children are discussed. Various contexts and strategies are first defined, and the role of the concept of scaffolding in different types of research is examined. Finally, a corpus of therapist-child interactions is analyzed, focusing on problems of mutual…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Techniques, Comprehension, Foreign Countries
Tsiouris, Evanthia – 1990
A study of Greek speakers' ability to understand and produce two varieities of codes--Katharevousa (K) and Demotic (D)--is reported. The investigation was undertaken to provide evidence supporting or refuting the Greek government's decision to legislate Demotic as the official language of the country. A sample of 545 informants were tested with a…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diglossia, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationHudson, Joyce, Ed.; Pym, N., Ed. – 1984
Reports on three surveys of Australian Aboriginal language use, undertaken to determine the language groups' needs for translation and literacy projects, are presented. "Communicability of Some Western Desert Communilects" by K. C. Hansen evaluates mutual intelligibility between languages and dialects in that region, and addresses the complicating…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Bilingualism, Community Surveys, Creoles
