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    Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria. New York: Academic Gumperz‚ J. J. (1982). Conversational Code switching in Discourse Strategies. Cambridge‚ England: Cambridge University Press. Malik‚ L. (1994). Sociolinguistics: A Study of Code switching. New Delhi: Anmol. Weinreich‚ U. (1953). Languages in Contact. The Hague: Mouton

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    The research on language and gender has been essential in providing answers regarding the sociolinguistic variation associated with speaker ’s gender. One of the main topics widely discussed in gender and language research is concerning the difference in language between men and women. This assignment is an attempt to answer the question: Do women and men talk differently? I will thoroughly investigate the question looking at the evidence which suggests women and men differ in language as well as

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    Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (1999) 19‚ 81–104. Printed in the USA. Copyright © 1999 Cambridge University Press 0267-1905/99 $9.50 PRAGMATICS AND SLA Gabriele Kasper and Kenneth R. Rose INTRODUCTION Pragmatics has two roles in SLA: It acts as a constraint on linguistic forms and their acquisition‚ and it represents a type of communicative knowledge and object of L2 learning in its own right. The first role of pragmatics is evident in functionalist (Tomlin 1990) and interactionist

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    Department Store Study

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    social prestige……………………………..……… 3 4. The department store study……………………………………………………… 4 4.1 New York City department stores represent different social environments. 5 4.2The internal stratification in New York City Department stores………..6 5.Sociolinguistic structure of (r)……………………………………………….8 6.Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...11 7.Bibliography……………………………………………………………………...12 2.Introduction Communication is a very complex process in which a person expresses a lot more than just

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    org/elx_proceedings/Euralex1994/11_Euralex_Dirk%20Geeraerts%20-%20Varieties%20of%20lexical%20variation.pdf Ellen Johnson. (1993). Language Variation and Change: The relationship between lexical variation and lexical change. Janet Holmes. (2001). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Harlow‚ England; Hong Kong: Longman. Marc Xu Zhichang. (2010). Vocabulary Studies Lexis‚ Morphology and Semantics: Historical Review of English Vocabulary; Lexical Change and Variation. Singapore: Pearson Education South Asia Raymond Hickey

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    multilingualism in nigeria

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    NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE CODE: ENG 454 COURSE TITLE: MULTI LINGUALISM COURSE GUIDE ENG 454 MULTI LINGUALISM Course Team Dr. Taiwo Abioye (Course Developer/Writer) – Covenant University Prof. Kunle Adeniran (Course Editor) – University of Ibadan Dr. I. Omolara Daniel (Programme Leader) – NOUN Mr. Theodore O. Iyere (Course Coordinator) – NOUN NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA ENG 454 National Open University

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    Bernand Spolsky‚ in his book Sociolinguistics‚ describes the factors that make up an individual’s bilingualism. These have to do with the identification of each of the languages involved; the way each language was acquired; skills proficiency level in both languages; internal functions‚

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    Discourse Analysis Final

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    Betanco‚ Nelida Professor Cecil English 106 February 13‚ 2013 A Discourse Analysis Throughout the world each individual is a member of a certain Discourse community. A Discourse community is a place where people share the same mechanisms of inter-communication among its members‚ as well as utilizing and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims. Each individual pertains to a certain community whether they acknowledge it or not. However‚ the first community

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    Language Attitude Language attitudes are the feelings people have about their own language or the language of others. Attitude towards a language can determine whether the language continues or whether it is eliminated. If a language has political and financial backing it has a good chance of surviving. If people perceive that the language can improve their social status and economic prosperity those are usually strong motivators for people to maintain or make a language shift – sometimes

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    Sociolinguist Dell Hymes developed the following model to promote the analysis of discourse as a series of speech events and speech acts within a cultural context. It uses the first letters of terms for speech components; the categories are so productive and powerful in analysis that you can use this model to analyze many different kinds of discourse. Mr. McGowan patricularly enjoys applying this model to storytelling. The SPEAKING Model Setting and Scene "Setting refers to the time and place

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