[LIVRE][B] Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the global south

A Pennycook, S Makoni - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an
original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the …

Language vitality: The weak theoretical underpinnings of what can be an exciting research area

SS Mufwene - Language, 2017 - muse.jhu.edu
As linguists theorize about language endangerment and loss (LEL), we must understand the
big picture: the coexistence of languages in particular polities and how the competition that …

Translingual family repertoires:'no, Morci is itaiitai panzita, amor'

A Hiratsuka, A Pennycook - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on data from a longitudinal linguistic ethnographic study of a trilingual (English,
Japanese, Spanish) family in Australia, this paper suggests that rather than looking at their …

Destandardization is not destandardization: Revising standardness criteria in order to revisit standard language typologies in the Low Countries

S Grondelaers, R Van Hout, P Van Gent - Taal & Tongval, 2016 - aup-online.com
The growing variability in Europe's standard languages has spawned widely shared
accounts of destandardization, as well as premonitions of the death of the very idea of a …

Literacy and literacy practices: Plurilingual connected migrants and emerging literacy

M D'Agostino, E Mocciaro - Journal of Second Language Writing, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent migration towards Europe is characterized by the massive presence of adults whose
educational paths have been interrupted and who are thus develo** literacy for the first …

[PDF][PDF] Nominal classification and verbal nouns in Baïnounk Gubëeher

AY Cobbinah - 2013 - eprints.soas.ac.uk
The complex noun class system of Baïnounk Gubëeher, a hitherto undescribed minority
language whose speakers are concentrated in Djibonker, Casamance/Senegal, combines a …

Language as category: using prototype theory to create reference points for the study of multilingual data

R Watson - Language and Cognition, 2019 - cambridge.org
In this paper I present a framework for the conceptualization of languages based on the
prototype theory of categorization proposed by Eleanor Rosch and her colleagues for …

Esca** the tyranny of writing: West African regimes of writing as a model for multilingual literacy

F Lüpke - The tyranny of writing: Ideologies of the written word, 2018 - books.google.com
This chapter discusses the challenges faced by Chinese and South Asian Hongkongers to
acquire, develop and maintain literacy in standard written Chinese (SWC). Language …

[PDF][PDF] Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa

F Lüpke - The Cambridge handbook of African linguistics, 2019 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Language endangerment and death is seen as a process that operates world-wide. The
metaphors used to describe the situations of language change and shift1 captured under …

Socially Responsible Data for Large Multilingual Language Models

A Smart, B Hutchinson, LM Amugongo, S Dikker… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly increased in size and apparent capabilities in
the last three years, but their training data is largely English text. There is growing interest in …