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Lukac, Morana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The public's concern with the fate of the standard language has been well documented in the history of the complaint tradition. The print media have for centuries featured letters to the editor on questions of language use. This study examines a corpus of 258 language-related letters to the editor published in the English-speaking print media. By…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Editing, Computational Linguistics
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Nelde, P. H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1981
Examines language frontier and transitional zones along the Belgium-northwestern France linguistic border as area occupying important position in linguistic contact research. Gives examples of variant forms in the morphosyntactic, semantic, stylistic, and lexical forms. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Universals, Linguistic Borrowing, Morphology (Languages)