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Linguistic Change: Examples from the Westfalian Dialect of Nienberge
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Seymour, Richard K. – Word, 1970
Research supported by the Princeton University Council on Research, the Duke University Research Council, the Duke Endowment Fellowship Fund, and the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society. (DD)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, German, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
"Nous cultiverons chacun un petit coin": Zur Kritik der Sprachlehrbucher des Franzosischen ("We Each Have Our Own Thing:" Criticism of Textbooks for Teaching French)
Meisel, Jurgen M. – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1971
Descriptors: French, Instructional Improvement, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Dialects and the Teaching of a Standard Language: Some West German Work.
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Barbour, Stephen – Language in Society, 1987
Examination of the West German language and society suggests that the notion that the West German indigenous working class is separated from the middle class by a linguistic barrier is invalid. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, German, Language Patterns
The Foreign Workers and Foreign Workers' German.
Blackshire-Belay, Carol – 1990
Foreign Workers' German (FWG) refers to the acquired German language skills of workers from various countries who were recruited to West Germany between 1955 and 1973 to fill menial, undesirable jobs. Contact between these workers and native German speakers was limited because of the nature of the foreigners' work, the tendency toward residential…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
Communication Patterns in Adult-Infant Interactions in Western and Non-Western Cultures.
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Keller, Heidi; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1988
Analyzes the early communication structure in adult-child interactions with two- to six-month old babies in Western (West Germany, Greece) and non-Western (Yanomami, Trobriand) societies. Discusses universal international verbal and non-verbal structures reflecting intuitive parenting programs. (FMW)
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Kongressbericht der 2. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur angewandte Linguistik (Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention of the Society for Applied Linguistics)
Nickel, Gerhard, Ed. – 1971
This conference report of the second annual meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics contains 38 articles grouped under the following headings: (1) technology and multimedia instruction, (2) theory of translation, (3) the didactics of foreign language instruction, (4) a description of present-day language and linguistics, (5)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communications, Computational Linguistics, Conference Reports
Papers from the Scandinavian-German Symposium on the Language of Immigrant Workers and Their Children (1st, Roskilde, Denmark, March 19-23, 1978). ROLIG-papir 12.
Dittmar, Norbert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
Papers included in this volume are: "The Muted Voice of Immigrant Workers;""The Situation of Foreign Workers in Sweden"; "Situation of Foreign Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany"; "Teaching German to Immigrant Children"; "Using Language Typology in Contrastive Studies"; "On Determining…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Classification