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Download full textHymes, Dell – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1992
Social meaning includes evaluation of languages themselves. Linguists often say all languages are equal. This is true in regard to potential, not true of actual state. All varieties of language share with pidgins and creoles the condition of being the result of a particular history of use, specialization, elaboration, and loss. A conversational…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Communication (Thought Transfer), Finnish, Foreign Countries
