Search results for "bilingual"

Contesting language policy for asylum seekers in the Northern periphery: the story of Tailor F

2020

AbstractThis article is about navigating asylum, employment and language policy in a new country as an asylum seeker. Through the story of one individual, we show that profound inequalities are exacerbated when forced migrants are limited in their choice of language they might study or use. The individual is Tailor F, an Iraqi man seeking asylum, and the country is Finland, officially bilingual, with a majority language (Finnish) and a minority language (Swedish). Finland’s official bilingualism does not extend evenly to language education provided for asylum seekers, who are taught Finnish regardless of the region where they are placed. Upon arrival, Tailor F was housed in a reception cent…

"Buuzzia, budia ja hyvää ghettobootya" : the construction of hip hop identities in Finnish rap lyrics through English and language mixing

2007

Implizite Sprachmischung in Kontaktidiomen zweisprachiger Oberschlesier

2020

Early language contact research often focused on the so-called explicit language mix-ing, where the elements of one language were clearly present in the second language. This article is devoted to the less frequent manifestations of the so-called implicit lan-guage mixing, where only structures of one language are used, whereas the means of expression are taken from the other language. The research corpus is made up of state-ments by bilingual Upper Silesians, who were interviewed as part of a project on time witnesses accounts. The informants live in an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous region, whose inhabitants have different language repertoires depending on factors such as place o…

Maahanmuuttajien kielitaito - yhteiskunnan resurssi vai yksilön kätköissä oleva pääoma? : esimerkkinä toisen polven suomenunkarilaiset

2014

The language policy of the European Union has the goal that every citizen will be bilingual and everybody will be able to communicate in two diQ erent languages besides one’s mother tongue. The aim of this article is to investigate the conditions for reaching these goals among people with immigrant backgrounds. The article provides an overview of bilingualism among one group of adults with Hungarian background in Finland. The focus is on language repertoire (e.g. the self-assessed language pro+ ciency), language choice between Finnish and Hungarian, the role of the minority language in their everyday lives and the future prospect for maintenance of Hungarian. The entire article is based on …

L2-L1 Translation Priming Effects in a Lexical Decision Task: Evidence From Low Proficient Korean-English Bilinguals

2018

One of the key issues in bilingual lexical representation is whether L1 processing is facilitated by L2 words. In this study, we conducted two experiments using the masked priming paradigm to examine how L2-L1 translation priming effects emerge when unbalanced, low proficiency, Korean-English bilinguals performed a lexical decision task. In Experiment 1, we used a 150 ms SOA (50 ms prime duration followed by a blank interval of 100 ms) and found a significant L2-L1 translation priming effect. In contrast, in Experiment 2, we used a 60 ms SOA (50 ms prime duration followed by a blank interval of 10 ms) and found a null effect of L2-L1 translation priming. This finding is the first demonstrat…

Un anàlisi comparativa del coneixement de català de l'alumnat castellanoparlant autòcton i l'alumnat hispà en finalitzar l'educació infantil a Catalu…

2008

In Catalonia, in a short period of time, statistics have raised from the 1% recorded ten years ago to the current 13% of students of foreign’s origin. This change has increased linguistic diversity regarding student’s background. However, more than a 50% are from Hispanic origin and the majority have Spanish as their mother tongue. In this case, and strictly from a linguistic point of view, the linguistic immersion programs used in Catalonia to teach Catalan to Spanish students maintain their validity. The article compares Catalan learning in two Spanish-speaking populations of 253 and 157 pupils of autochthonous and foreign origin at the end of childhood education. Results indicate that di…

The Linguistic Landscape of the Valencian Community: A Comparative Analysis of Bilingual and Multilingual Signs in Three Different Areas

2019

During the last decades, the promotion of multilingualism has been key when designing linguistic policies in Europe. Previous research studies have focused on how languages are employed in fields such as education, media, and urban sites, among others. Bearing all this in mind, the aim of this paper is to analyse the linguistic landscapes of three municipalities located in a bilingual region in Spain, that of the Valencian Community. Thus, issues such as language contact, language dominance, and the languages used by a number of institutions on private and public signs were examined. As for the method, over 140 pictures of language signs were taken in order to examine language contact, lang…

Un intellectuel exilé dans la tourmente du Risorgimento : Antonio Ronna, lexicographe et professeur

2016

Il lessicografo e professore Antonio Ronna (1801-1866) appartiene a quella schiera di intellettuali impegnati che presero parte al Risorgimento e che si esiliarono per non piegarsi al giogo del regime austriaco. Nel 1836, completa, grazie alle schede lasciate da Biagioli, il Dictionnaire italien-français, français-italien: è l'inizio di un'attività che ne farà uno dei lessicografi di maggior successo dell'Ottocento. Lo stesso anno, a seguito di una revisione piuttosto sommaria, pubblica anche una ripresa del Dizionario di Barberi; occorrerà attendere il 1858 affinché il suo proprio dizionario, ispirato a quello di Biagioli, venga pubblicato. All'attività di lessicografo, Ronna unisce quella…

John H. McWhorter, Linguistic simplicity and complexity: Why do languages undress? Language contact and bilingualism, Vol. 1. Berlin: De Gruyter Mout…

2013

Theory and Practice of Legislation Journal in Volume 2, Number 2, November 2014.

2014

This special issue of The Theory and Practice of Legislation presents one of the outcomes of the project launched at the Sir William Dale Centre by Prof. Helen Xanthaki and Dr. Giulia Adriana Pennisi in 2013 and entitled Legislative Drafting and Language. The projects investigates the crossroad between legislative drafting and language/linguistics with the aim to open a new agenda: the use of teachings from the discipline of linguistics in applications useful and relevant to legislative drafting. An example of the results gained thus far are the two workshops on “Legislative Drafting and Language” that took place at the IALS in June 2013 and June 2014 respectively, and witnessed the partici…