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Anas Hajar; Mehmet Karakus – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
As of 2024, nearly three decades have passed since Bonny Norton introduced the investment model. This bibliometric review analyses research on this model using metadata from 424 publications indexed in the Web of Science database. Employing bibliometric techniques, the study identifies and visually presents significant sources, countries,…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Databases, Applied Linguistics, Metadata
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Reza Khany; Mohsen Beigi – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study aimed to explore the linguistic factors that influence the development and diversification of World Englishes along with implications for language teaching, learning, and policy, and to examine the trends in research related to WEs. Using a systematic review process with MAXQDA 20.2.1, the findings indicate that research on World…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cultural Context
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Delphine Bernhard; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Myriam Bras; Fanny Martin; Marianne Vergez-Couret; Pascale Erhart; Jean Sibille; Amalia Todirascu; Philippe Boula de Mareüil; Dominique Huck – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In contrast to French, the vast majority of regional languages of France can be considered as under-resourced. In this article, we present the results of a research project aiming to produce annotated resources for three regional languages of France: Alsatian, Occitan, and Picard. These languages cover three different language families (Germanic…
Descriptors: French, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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Vallejos, Rosa – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
This paper highlights the role of speech community members on a series of interconnected projects to document, study and maintain Kokama, a deeply endangered language from the Peruvian Amazon. The remaining fluent speakers of the language are mostly older than 60 years of age, are spread out across various small villages, and speak the language in…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Maintenance, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
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Schmied, Josef; Hudson-Ettle, Diana – World Englishes, 1996
Examines a source of linguistic data--newspapers--and discusses related problems of text-type classification and feature interpretation. Using texts from East Africa as a database, the article assesses the influence of different production contexts on the text composition and analyzes the samples for the multifunctional variable of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classification, Data Analysis, Databases
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Owens, Jonathan – Language Sciences, 1998
Discussion of the research methodology of theoretical linguistics argues that linguists studying a small, unrepresentative set of languages defining the content of sub-disciplines in linguistics are engaging in an unarticulated alliance, and that the choice of languages for study threatens the validity of the research. This is illustrated through…
Descriptors: Creoles, Databases, Language Patterns, Language Research
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van Hout, Roeland; Muysken, Pieter – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Develops analytical techniques to determine "borrowability," the ease with which a lexical item or category of lexical items can be borrowed by one language from another. These techniques are then applied to Spanish borrowings in Bolivian Quechua on the basis of a set of bilingual texts. (29 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Databases, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
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Verges, Martin – Educational Media International, 1992
Discusses the influences of mass media and other communication technologies on small linguistic communities using examples from the Catalan and Occitan/Aranes communities of Spain. Highlights include hardware, linguistic software, national character sets and sorting, spelling checkers, automatic translation, multilingual software, networking, and…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Cultural Awareness, Databases