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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 ...
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
Contrastive rhetoric is the study of how a person's first language and his or her culture influence writing in a second language or how a common language is used among different cultures. The term was first coined by the American applied linguist Robert Kaplan in 1966 to denote eclecticism and subsequent growth of collective knowledge in ...
Contact-induced changes can be achieved by a variety of mechanisms, from code-switching to code alternation to acquisition strategies. Language evolution , and the emergence of contact-induced varieties, can be regarded as speakers making selections from a pool of linguistic variants made available to them.
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 ...
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 ...
According to Douglas, as culture is an integral part of a human being, the process of acculturation takes a deeper turn when the issue of language is brought on the scene. Schumann based his acculturation model on two sets of factors: social and psychological.