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Yi Zhang; Wei Ren – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Although a growing body of literature has explored multilingual users' digital practice, dialects adoptions have received relatively little attention. As an important part of the Chinese language, spoken dialects, or '[Chinese characters omitted]' (fangyan), are highly complex in their classification and colloquial usage. Nevertheless, Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Dialects, Written Language
Sofia Fernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation delves into second language acquisition, sociophonetic variation, and speech perception, investigating how prior linguistic experiences and exposure to regional variations in a second language influence the decoding of dialectal linguistic cues. It aims to enhance the understanding of words pronounced with different phones and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Styles, Dialects
Heiko Motschenbacher – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This study demonstrates that linguistic landscape analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the effectiveness of a university language policy, as it provides "in situ" evidence for discursive patterns shaping language use in public space. It uses the official language policy of a Norwegian institution of higher education (Høgskulen på…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Official Languages, Educational Policy
Isaac L. Bleaman; Chaya R. Nove – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
We introduce the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe (CSYE), an Open Access digital language archive based on several hundred testimony interviews with Holocaust survivors from the USC Shoah Foundation. The testimonies are a uniquely rich source of information on all aspects of European Yiddish: its regional dialects, grammatical structures,…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, German, Dialects, Language Styles
Judit Kroo – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This paper examines the ways in which the indexical meanings that attach to enregistered speaking styles are debated and contested in interaction by younger Japanese adults. Contested meanings include discourses of so-called "hyoojungo" 'Standard Japanese' and the speaking styles that are collectively described as 'Okinawan dialect',…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Styles
Pickl, Simon – Language Policy, 2020
This contribution explores the concept of selection as an integral part of Haugen's standardisation model from a theoretical as well as an empirical angle. It focuses on different types of factors of selection and how they are relevant to the study of selection processes both on the level of individual variants and whole varieties. The question of…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Linguistic Theory, Language Styles, German
Loza, Sergio; Vana, Rosti – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
This study discusses the dialect stylization and language ideologies involved in a nationally broadcasted radio prank show, "Carmen Calls." This national prank show permits a discussion on the language practices and hegemonic ideologies involved in the media representation of the show's Latina protagonist; "Carmen Santiago De la…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Styles, Telecommunications, Semiotics
Zitouni, Mimouna; Almutairi, Mashael – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study is based on a broad research question: How does the translation into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) capture and convey the meanings embedded within languages belonging both inside and outside the sphere of the Arab world? To answer this question, a translation and literary study of borrowings, combining the methods of etymology and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Borrowing
Joyner, Karl – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2018
In this paper, the author argues that the theoretical groundings of code-switching are flawed, in that they rely on a flawed understanding of language. For code-switching to function as described by sociologists and educators, language would have to be a skill--and particular languages and dialects to be discrete subsets of this skill--to be…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Educational Philosophy, Language Styles, Classroom Communication
Arndt, Sonja – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
Dialogue is promoted as a key strategy to "solve" the "problem" of diversity in educational settings. Yet, "[w]hen we select words … We usually take them from other utterances, and mainly from utterances that are kindred to ours in genre, that is in theme, composition or style" (p. 87, emphasis in the original). This…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Intercultural Communication, Educational Philosophy, Language Styles
Sharma, Bal Krishna – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This study presents an analysis of a Nepali comedian's dialect stylization in a stand-up comedy show performed for the diasporic Nepali community in Bochum, Germany. The analysis shows that through creative deployment of diverse linguistic practices of Nepali speakers, the comedian, Manoj Gajurel, engages in important identity work both in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Language Usage, Language Styles
Swear, Muna Abdulhussein – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The Appraisal Theory includes three subsystems of evaluation; Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation. This study focuses on Graduation subsystem which is used by writers to amplify or diminish the scope of these two subsystems. It consists of Focus and Force options. Focus expressions are usually non-gradable they tend to sharpen or soften the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Dialects
Tsiplakou, Stavroula; Ioannidou, Elena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
This paper examines language stylization in "Aigia Fuxia" ("The Fuchsia Goat"), a highly popular Greek Cypriot sitcom, where the (imagined) linguistic and socio-cultural "self" of a dialect-speaking community is subjected to extreme and aberrant stylization. The overarching filmic and generic trademark of "Aigia…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Greek
Stokes, Craig R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a study of Castilian transcodic markers in the Catalan written on the Internet. Thirty Castilian transcodic markers representing five categories were run through the interface of the Corpus d'Us del Catala a la Web (CucWeb) to collect information in order to conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The major…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns

O'Donnell, Holly – English Journal, 1986
Explores the general features and some unique usages of West African English, Caribbean English, and Indian English. (EL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dialects, English, Language Styles