The current study quantitatively and qualitatively investigated Spanish maintenance among 45 Spanish heritage language (SHL) speakers in Utah who completed a survey about their linguistic background, their attitudes toward Spanish, their self-rated Spanish proficiency, and their…
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In linguistically heterogeneous societies, language planning constitutes core institutional practice for maintaining social cohesion as well as unique cultural identities. This critical sociolinguistic and comparative analysis examines education language policy process in India,…
In this study, diglossia in Bengali has been explored. Charles Ferguson (1959), in the article “Diglossia,” brought into focus a phenomenon that was revolutionary in the field of sociolinguistics. Diglossia is the functional coexistence of two linguistic varieties, each with its…
This thesis approaches two perennial and interrelated problems in the historiography of China - the question of the openness or self-isolation of (Ming) Chinese society, as well as the nature and extent of the Mongol legacy in the (early) Ming - from a new angle. In spite of a g…
The current research investigated the ways language was used by mainstream primary school teachers and language learners whose native language was other than the official language of instruction. The setting of the study was the island of Cyprus, where the mainstream population’…
During the past twenty years, Israeli society has been undergoing language and cultural shift, as it moves from the socialist and Zionist ideals of the kibbutz to a capitalist system based on global hi-tech industries. Accompanying this move has been a transformation in Israeli …
This dissertation argues that twentieth-century multilingual authors writing in dominant languages engaged in a poetics of aesthetic constraint, rather than a process of cultural assimilation. The historically disparate, yet critically kindred texts I consider--those of Franz Ka…
In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial identities were not significant for the self-definition of the res…
This study examines the language and literacy experiences of Kurdish minority children during their first year of mainstream schooling in a southeastern village in Turkey. I employed ethnographic research methods (participant observation, multi-modal data collection, interviewin…
The purpose of the present study was to examine and describe codeswitching produced by two trilingual children (ages 2;6 and 5;5 at the beginning of the study), acquiring Hebrew, English, and Spanish simultaneously. The data was collected over a period of 15 months, in naturalis…
In dieser Arbeit werden die Unterschiede in der Genuskongruenz der belebten Substantive zwischen den ein- und zweisprachigen russischen Muttersprachlern und Muttersprachlerinnen mit Hilfe einer empirischen Studie untersucht. Speziell werden die vier Sonderfälle betrachtet: Hybri…
Although the term hybrid has gained much traction in literary analyses of contemporary experimental poetry, there is a notable divide within scholarly discourse wherein its uses pertain to either form or content. The term has been used by literary critics and anthologists to cat…
Immigration, an important component of the population growth of Canada, has resulted in an increasing diversity that has changed the demographic, religious, and linguistic make-up of the country. Two topics, sense of belonging and language, are frequently brought into question i…