Do you think that the Internet makes large-scale language change possible without in-person human contact? Introduction All languages undergo evolution with time and get different variations from the native as their use diversifies globally. Although this phenomenon and its resulting nature are quite unpredictable‚ they are bound to occur as the world seeks to embrace multiculturalism. In the contemporary world‚ Internet use influences this aspect immensely although a division by elites exists
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K. 1958. Hindi and English in the South. Ahmedabad: Navajivan. General Secretary. Linguistic Minorities Protection Committee vs State of Karnataka. Indian Law Reports-Karnataka Vol.39 Part 11 1st June 1989 pp. 1595-1615. Glyn‚ Lewis E. 1972. Multilingualism in the Soviet Union : Aspects of Language Policy and its Implementation. The Hague: Mouton. Kodanda Rao‚ P.1969. Language Issue in the Indian Constituent Assembly‚ 1946-1950. Bombay: International Book House. Kumaramangalam‚ S. Mohan. 1965 India
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English should clearly become America’s official language because it is the language used by the founding fathers to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution‚ America’s history speaks for itself in that it is a nation built on multilingualism. Another belief favoring English as the official language is that it will create a national identity and build the American culture. However‚ the American culture has always been a mixture of cultures from other places across the globe with a
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A Dominant Community’s Attitudes towards the Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco di Mina Afkir Abstract Two linguistically and culturally different communities have been living in Morocco since the Arab-Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD‚ namely the Amazigh-speaking and the Arabic-speaking communities. The language policies that were implemented by the Moroccan government from independence in 1956 till 2001 greatly promoted the Arabic language‚ which
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APHUG MIDTERM! ESSAYS!! Demographic Transition Model: Current Global Migration Patterns Matching Terms! Site: Situation: Nomothetic: Scale: The ratio between the distance on the map and the distance on the Earth’s actual surface Spatial: Pertaining to space on the Earth’s surface Anthropogenic: Human-induced changes on the natural environment Idiographic: A special place in one specific area Connectivity: The degree of economic‚ social‚ cultural or political connection between
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Jewish culture has several languages. There are those‚ like Hebrew and Aramaic‚ that are typically used in more scholarly settings‚ though recently Hebrew has had its revival and can be widely spoken and used by Jewish people everywhere‚ particularly in Israel. There is Yiddish‚ the language typically spoken in the home‚ with a common ancestor to the German language. Other regional languages exist within the Jewish community‚ such as Ladino or Judeo Arabic‚ but Jewish people also often learn the
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groups that are about three hundred in number. In 1947‚ Nigeria was not yet a nation. Nigeria now has been a multi-national society‚ one of the sociological problems of building Nigeria as a nation is multi-ethnicity with its concomitants such as multilingualism and completive ethnicity. There were varieties of lines which existed between the various states and people which were the predecessors of modern Nigeria. But on the other side‚ Ethnographers estimates that‚ there are over 250 ethnic groups
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Adolescent Health “Parents Can Play an Active Role in the Identity Formation of Their Adolescent Children” Despite popular belief‚ when it comes to identity theory‚ adolescents are not the only factors involved in the formation of their development. A recent article published in Journal of Research on Adolescence shows that parents are active participants in the development of their child’s identity. Jonathan Ventura of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem‚ along with Doctor Elli Schachter‚ studied
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‘internationalism’. Most of people answered that studying abroad makes them feel international‚ 27 out of 75 answers‚ which is 36% of all responses. 14 out of 75‚ which is 18.6%‚ answered that they are international because of the language background. Multilingualism is very popular in this school‚ since people come form different countries with different languages. And also because people gain language skills by just being surrounded by the different language environment. The main question of the project
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In the New Merriam-Webster Dictionary a speech community is defined as a socially distinct group that develops a dialect; a variety of language that diverges from the national language in vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ and grammar. Gumperz‚ Dorian‚ Fishman‚ Labov‚ Hymes‚ and Corder helped define a speech community. This essay will touch on the basis of multiple aspects of a speech community depending on their similarities and differences as well as how the concepts of these speech communities relate
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