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This paper will focus on various facets of RP as an accent norm. In the first part of the paper I will set the stage for a renewed sociolinguistic vi...

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This paper promises a timely and comprehensive re-examination of Received Pronunciation (RP) as an accent norm, addressing its evolving status within...

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Matt H. Ciscel

Language and identity in post-Soviet Moldova

Linguistics

The multilingual Republic of Moldova emerged from the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 as an example of the linguistic complications that can resul...

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This paper promises a timely and insightful examination of the complex interplay between language and identity in the Republic of Moldova, a country u...

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Jaine Beswick

The Portuguese diaspora in Jersey

Linguistics

This present paper concerns recent migrations from the Portuguese mainland and from the island of Madeira to the English and French speaking territor...

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This paper introduces a compelling and timely investigation into the Portuguese diaspora in Jersey, a unique sociolinguistic context often overlooked...

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Petra Daryai-Hansen

Promoting linguistic diversity Reflections on the language policy of European language policy conferences

Linguistics

To face up to the omnipresence of ?Anglo-American? (as defined in footnote 2), conferences on language policy today address the issue of promoting li...

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The article, "Promoting linguistic diversity: Reflections on the language policy of European language policy conferences," immediately draws attention...

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Dag F. Simonsen

Over the fence ? and into English? Reflections on adolescents, academics, linguistic development and language policy in Norway in the early 2000s

Linguistics

After a discussion of recent language-policy developments in the Scandinavian countries, and of the domain loss theory saying English may displace Sc...

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The paper "Over the fence? and into English? Reflections on adolescents, academics, linguistic development and language policy in Norway in the early...

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Bent Preisler

Deconstructing ?the domain of science? as a sociolinguistic entity in EFL societies: The relationship between English and Danish in higher education and research

Linguistics

Preisler introduces the Danish debate concerning the influence of English on Danish language and language use, and ? drawing on previous research ? d...

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This paper tackles the critical and increasingly relevant sociolinguistic issue of English's influence on national languages within the academic spher...

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Hartmut Haberland

Domains and domain loss

Linguistics

The domain concept, originally suggested by Schmidt-Rohr in the 1930s (as credited in Fishman?s writings in the 1970s), was an attempt to sort out di...

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This paper offers a timely and critical re-examination of the "domain" concept, a foundational construct in sociolinguistics, particularly as it relat...

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Annjo K. Greenall

To translate or not to translate: Attitudes to English loanwords in Norwegian

Linguistics

The ?fast forward? button for the influx of English loanwords1 into the Scandinavian languages has long since been pressed. The views on this phenome...

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This paper, "To translate or not to translate: Attitudes to English loanwords in Norwegian," offers a timely and highly relevant exploration of a pers...

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Miriam Schildkraut

Linguistic socialization and social identity Arab students in a mixed college in Israel

Sociology

The following article brings results from an error analysis of data collected from Arab students whose L1 is Arabic and L2 is Hebrew. The subjects pa...

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This article presents an intriguing study into the linguistic socialization and social identity of Arab students learning Hebrew as an L2 within a uni...

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This paper addresses a foundational and often debated question in language studies: the intricate relationship between language and culture. By arguin...