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Gao, Katie B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study of language contact epitomizes the dynamics of language as a system of human communication. The competing linguistic forces at work when speakers of different language varieties come into contact can be narrowed down to two basic concepts--convergence and divergence. Looking at linguistic areas using a macro approach, languages in…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Ethnicity
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Blanc, Michel, Ed.; Hamers, Josiane F., Ed. – 1987
Papers from an international conference on the interaction of languages and dialects in contact are presented in this volume. Papers include: "Quelques reflexions sur la variation linguistique"; "The Investigation of 'Language Continuum' and 'Diglossia': A Macrological Case Study and Theoretical Model"; "A Survey of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics