In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered i... [more]
Decades of research has investigated the heterogeneity of English among speakers of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but there still remai... [more]
Bilingual dialects of Spanish in the U.S. tend to accelerate language change arising from variability already present in ono-contact dialects. In San Antonio, Texas, variability between todo el tiempo and siempre suggest that the former has converged with
Twenty-nine subjects enrolled in a fourth-semester Spanish course were assigned to one of two treatments: processing instruction and meaning-based output instruction. The results show that processing instruction (PI) has an overall greater effect than mea
This study investigated the effects of modality, information type and language experience on recall by FL learners of Spanish. Fifty-four intermediate and advanced level university students participated in this study by reading and listening to an exposit
This bibliography is a continuation of Jack Emory Davis's The Spanish of Mexico: An annotated bibliography for 56 and a completion of Randal C. Fulk's The Spanish of Mexico: A partially annotated bibliography for 1970-90, also published in Hispania 76 (
The article examines the links between humour and hatred - a topic that is often ignored by researchers of prejudice. The article studies three websites that present racist humour and display sympathies with the Ku Klux Klan. The analysis emphasizes the i
In this paper, we investigate the interaction of phonological and syntactic constraints on the realization of Information Structure in Creek, a free word order language. We use magnitude estimation as our experimental paradigm, which allows us to quantify
In this article, I explore the inherent ambiguity of cultural identities through a discussion of placenames around the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona. The Western Apache residents of San Carlos live in a colonized landscape. Residen
Soviet science in the post-WWII period was torn between two contradictory directives: to 'overtake and surpass' Western science. especially in defence-related fields; and to 'criticize and destroy' Western scholarship for its alleged ideological flaws
This is an introductory analysis of a group of Middle Dutch texts about the 'Secrets' of female health and human procreation, which date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although at first sight little more than translations and adaptations o
This article presents a combination of unsupervised and supervised learning techniques for the generation of word segmentation rules from a raw list of words. First, a language bias for word se mentation is introduced and a simple genetic algorithm is use
This paper explores certain pragmatic features of advertising discourse. It focuses on and expands upon a binary distinction between types of advertising discourse which was proposed initially by Bernstein (1974) and which has been touched upon more recen
it is proposed th;it the association of ok with expected transitions in interaction reflects a fundamental organization of language behavior based on default understandings. The behavior of discourse ok and two additional examples of default organization
Dynamic and proof-conditional approaches to discourse (exemplified by Discourse Representation Theory and Type-Theoretical Grammar, respectively) are related through translations and transitions labeled by first-order formulas with anaphoric twists. Type-
In this paper the way in which the concept of lifestyle has been mobilized in the debate over healthcare in the last decade is analysed. Has the USA become a more compassionate nation as former President George Bush urged? Or have neo-conservative and rig
The text takes the form of a dialogue-a series of spoken fragments developed in correspondence by Phelan and Heathfield and written in an interleaved structure. The performance of this dialogue employed slide imagery and a musical score, and the correspon