His offhand comment intrigued me. Having been involved with linguistics and lexicography since the late 1980s‚ I have long been aware of the notion of language death. At that dinner‚ it suddenly hit me--news outlets and advocacy groups keep information about the destruction of the rain forest or the extinction of plants and animals in view--most Americans are at least on some level aware of such destruction. The issue of language extinction‚ however‚ is completely off most people’s radar screens
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To understand Thai culture‚ belief and value‚ it is important to understand the language use in Thai society. According to sociolinguistic point of view‚ Thailand is considered the "Diglossia Society"‚ where there are variety of languages use to serve a specialized function and are used for particular purpose. The purpose of the different language is to serve the different types of people. The standard Thai language is used with normal domain or normal people. Another language is used for " High
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Acculturation-cultural modification of an individual‚ group‚ or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture Adaptation- the process of changing to fit some purpose or situation Agriculture- the science or occupation of farming American Anthropological Association- a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology Anthropologist- the science of human beings; especially : the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and
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Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging Pedagogies Ofelia García‚ Nelson Flores and Heather Homonoff Woodley A. Yiakoumetti (ed.). Harnessing Linguistic Variation for Better Education. Peter Lang. Throughout the world language minorities are most often educated in schools that have been designed for language majorities. Usually they are educated only through the medium of the dominant state language. But even when they are given the opportunity to be educated
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Initiation of Code Switching Code switching‚ that is‚ the alternative use by bilinguals of two or more languages in the same conversation‚ has attracted linguists’ attention and been studied from a variety of perspectives. Code-switching is a linguistics term denoting the concurrent use of more than one language‚ or language variety‚ in conversation. Multilinguals‚ people who speak more than one language‚ sometimes use elements of multiple languages in conversing with each other. Thus‚ code-switching
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS Gender‚ Politeness and Stereotypes a. Woman’s Language and Confidence Some dialectologist argued that women were using language which reinforced their sub-ordinate status. Social dialect research focused on differences between women’s and men’s speech. Robin Lakoff identified a number of linguistic features used more often by women. He suggested that women’s speech was characterized by linguistics features like: o Lexical hedges or fillers (e.g. you know‚ sort of
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1. INTRODUCTION As learning an additional language is regarded as being competitive and advantageous‚ there are more and more bilinguals and multilinguals in many places worldwide‚ and Hong Kong is one of these places. With a majority of the population being able to master a number of languages‚ code-switching‚ which is the alternate use of (more than) two languages by a bilingual (or multilingual) within a discourse‚ is undoubtedly a common and frequently occurring linguistic phenomenon in
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Anthropology 101 Final Review Chapter 1: What is Anthropology? * Phenotype: refers to an organism’s evident traits‚ its “manifest biology”—anatomy and physiology. Human display hundreds of evident (detectable) physical traits. They range from skin color‚ hair form‚ eye color‚ and facial features (which are visible ) to blood groups and enzyme production (which become evident through testing) Chapter 2: Culture * Enculturation: is the process by which a child learns his or her culture
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Janet Holmes) Chapter One: What do sociolinguists study? - Sociolinguistics: a term that refers to the study of the relationship between language and society‚ and how language is used in multilingual speech communities. Q what aspects of language are Sociolinguists interested in? Sociolinguists are interested in explaining why people speak differently in different social contexts. And the effect of social factors such as (social distance‚ social status
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The Appearance and Development of Haitian Creole As written in Jacques Arends’ “Pidgin and Creole: An Introduction‚” Haitian Creole first originated from a pidgin. With time‚ this pidgin gradually developed into a creole‚ later on becoming the co-official language of Haiti. Haitian Creole may be recognized as one of the official languages‚ along with French‚ however there are negative associations linked with this creole. For instance‚ the stereotypical view of a speaker of Haitian Creole
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