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Takigawa, Yuzuru – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores dispute sequences in talk between bilingual couples communicating in Japanese. Specifically I examine naturally occurring face-to-face talk between Japanese wives and their American husbands who communicate primarily in Japanese at home. Conversation analysis (CA) is employed to document occasions where the talk between these…
Descriptors: Expertise, Language Patterns, Spouses, Intercultural Communication
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Tannenbaum, Michal; Abugov, Netta – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
This study examined linguistic patterns in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, a group that has rarely been studied from a sociolinguistic perspective. Participants were 92 girls, 10-12 years old, who attend a school where Yiddish is the language of instruction and Hebrew, Israel's official language, is studied only in religious…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Minorities, Language Usage, Jews
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von Raffler Engel, W.; Sigelman, C. K. – Language Sciences, 1971
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Fluency
Scarcella, Robin C. – 1979
This report shows that verbal routines are not easily acquired by adult second language learners and it identifies some of the specific problems they have in acquiring routines. Empirical data concerning the role of verbal routines, (that is, fixed expressions which have been acquired as memorized wholes), in adult second language performance are…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Idioms