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Pope, Rob – English in Australia, 2008
This opens with a critical and historical exploration of the terms that make up the phrase "English National Curriculum", breaking them down to build them up differently. This prompts a critique of the nominally singular subject "English" that stresses its plurality ("Englishes") and introduces the concept "Englishing" to highlight its ongoing…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Matsuda, Kenjiro – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Analogical leveling in progress of a potential suffix in Tokyo Japanese is analyzed within a quantitative model. The phenomenon is shown to be controlled by five factors: sociological variable complex, verb stem length, verb conjugation pattern, the following inflectional form, and embeddedness of the clause containing the suffix. (Contains 70…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Usage, Predictor Variables