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Morphological features of Kiswahili youth language(s): Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Goma, Lubumbashi and Nairobi
2020
AbstractSince the late 1980s, linguists’ analyses of Sheng, the urban youth language from Nairobi, have led to the growth of a considerable body of literature. In contrast, only a few studies are available that cover other youth registers from the Kiswahili-speaking parts of Africa. While most of the available studies either deal with techniques of manipulation or with adolescents’ identity constructions, our paper intends to give a comparative overview of specific morphological features of Kiswahili-based youth languages. While certain characteristics of Sheng (Nairobi/Kenya), Lugha ya Mitaani (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania), Kindubile (Lubumbashi/DR Congo) and Yabacrâne (Goma/DR Congo) largely d…
Si todos lo dicen, ¿será cierto? La evidencialidad de folclore o acervo común: de la teoría a la investigación sociopragmática
2021
espanolEn este trabajo, se presentan los planteamientos teoricos, la metodologia y los primeros resultados del estudio de la evidencialidad de folclore o acervo comun en corpus de entrevistas semidirigidas PRESEEA. La categoria objeto de estudio se relaciona con los conocimientos compartidos en las comunidades de habla, las creencias generalizadas y la sabiduria popular. Se considera que el empleo de los mecanismos de evidencialidad de folclore es altamente estrategico. Los objetivos del estudio son, por una parte, conocer el rendimiento funcional y patrones linguistico-pragmaticos de este tipo de evidencialidad, y, por otra, y como principal, documentar y analizar patrones sociopragmaticos…
Sense Equivalence in plWordNet to Princeton WordNet Mapping
2019
Abstract Though the interest in use of wordnets for lexicography is (gradually) growing, no research has been conducted so far on equivalence between lexical units (or senses) in inter-linked wordnets. In this paper, we present and validate a procedure of sense-linking between plWordNet and Princeton WordNet. The proposed procedure employs a continuum of three equivalence types: strong, regular and weak, distinguished by a custom-designed set of formal, semantic and translational features. To validate the procedure, three independent samples of 120 sense pairs were manually analysed with respect to the features. The results show that synsets from the two wordnets linked by interlingual syno…
Interventions of speakers of Polish and British parliaments in the light of politeness theory
2021
Abstract The present study attempts to analyze the interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the selected exchanges from 2018 to 2019 in terms of discourse-sensitive politeness theory advanced by Jonathan Culpeper. He proposes to use three types of impoliteness that affect three types of interlocutors’ faces via a range of impoliteness strategies. In the analyses we consider the linguistic, personal, and cultural as well as political context of the exchanges against the background of the unique, historically rooted institutional circumstances, with a special emphasis on the role of different physical contexts of respective Parliamentary chambers. We emphasize the discur…
Learning How to Tell, Learning How to Ask: Reciprocity and Storytelling as a Community Process
2020
AbstractIn this article, we discuss the discursive processes that surround storytelling of traumatic experiences in the case of minor asylum seekers involved in the recent migration flow to Italian ports. We argue that in order to understand not only how traumatic experiences are told but also how they are overcome, it is necessary to focus on the reciprocal relationships and impact of the members of the communities in which migrants are received. Such approach shifts the focus from the content of stories toward the protagonists of their tellings and from asylum seekers as ‘subjects’ to asylum seekers as members of communities to which they and others contribute. The article is based on nar…
The interpreter as a citizen diplomat
2019
Abstract The article presents a case of interpretation as a political activity during the Cold War. In the 1980s and 1990s, a grassroots citizen diplomacy movement was initiated by the Californian Esalen Institute, the center of the American Human Potential Movement. In and around its Soviet-American exchange program, numerous individuals, NGOs and organizations established personal relationships and professional exchange with citizens of the two super powers and travelled in both directions. Interpreters had a complex and crucial role in this exchange which was different from both the professional experience of conference and of communal interpreting.
“We thought about it together and the solution came to our minds”: languaging linguistic problem-solving in multilingual Finnish classrooms
2021
Abstract This study examines a learning experiment in which linguistic problem-solving tasks designed to increase students’ (aged 9–13) language awareness through collaborative dialogue were introduced in multilingual primary school classrooms in Finland. The aim was to analyse how the students (N = 126) reported what was happening during the linguistic problem-solving tasks, drawing on the method of languaging. Additionally, the study investigates how meaningful, relevant and novel the students with diverse backgrounds found the tasks. The data were collected via a survey. Students’ problem-solving reports were analysed via content analysis, with the Taxonomy of Cognitive Process applied. …
Multimodal mediational means in assessment of processes: an argument for a hard-CLIL approach
2020
In Japan, CLIL instruction falls under a soft-CLIL approach, content serving as secondary to language instruction. Furthermore, assessment in classrooms in Japan is oftentimes limited to assessing ...
An Illustration to Ælfric’s De temporibus anni in Ælfwine’s Prayerbook
2020
L'articolo esamina un diagramma contenuto nel manoscritto London, British Library, Cotton Titus D.xxvii+xxvi, generalmente noto come 'Ælfwine’s Prayerbook'. Il diagramma, che si trova al fol. 21 v , è stato in genere interpretato come una rota incompleta, o delle maree o dei venti (dal momento che contiene solo 4 dei canonici 12 venti della tradizione scientifica medievale). Una analisi comparativa e dettagliata delle caratteristiche del diagramma, tuttavia, mostra come l'ipotesi della rota delle maree sia da rigettare in favore della teoria di una rota ventorum. Inoltre, l'analisi dei testi contenuti nel manoscritto rivela una stretta connessione tra il diagramma e il De temporibus anni di…
Forms and functions of non-renditions in community interpreting: a corpus-based study
2021
This paper explores flexible language strategies in interpreter-mediated interaction from a corpus-based, quantitative perspective, drawing on data from the Community Interpreting Database (ComInDa...