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The Journal of Language Contact is a peer-reviewed academic journal [1] published in English and French. It covers research on language contact, use, and change. This includes linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. [2] The journal was established in 2007.
The influence can go deeper, extending to the exchange of even basic characteristics of a language such as morphology and grammar.. Newar, for example, spoken in Nepal, is a Sino-Tibetan language distantly related to Chinese but has had so many centuries of contact with neighbouring Indo-Iranian languages that it has even developed noun inflection, a trait that is typical of the Indo-European ...
Chapter 1 starts from the observation that recent work on contact linguistics in well understood social contexts provides a new platform for trying to use evidence for historical language change as evidence for past social contexts and interactions. It emphasises the role of human social interactions in language change, rather than viewing ...
Jef Verschueren is a Belgian linguist, academic, and author.He is an emeritus professor of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. [1]Verschueren is most known for his work on semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis.
Applied Linguistics; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Language Learning; Language Testing; Journal of Second Language Writing; LEARN Journal; System; TESOL Quarterly; The Modern Language Journal; Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
Interactional sociolinguistics is a subdiscipline of linguistics that uses discourse analysis to study how language users create meaning via social interaction. [1] It is one of the ways in which linguists look at the intersections of human language and human society; other subfields that take this perspective are language planning, minority language studies, quantitative sociolinguistics, and ...
Harry Hoijer (September 6, 1904 – March 11, 1976) was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture. He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which is now extinct. Hoijer's few works make up the bulk of material on this language. Hoijer was a student of Edward Sapir.
Paul V. Kroskrity (/ ˈ k r ɒ s k r ɪ t i /; born February 10, 1949) is an American linguistic anthropologist known primarily for his contributions to establishing and developing language ideology as a field of research. [1] He is professor of anthropology, applied linguistics, and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los ...