Essays about: "multilingual society"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words multilingual society.

  1. 1. From Enshrined Language of the State, to Secondary Language of Tourism, Trade and Education : The Development of Policies Regarding the Russian Language in the South Caucasus Region, During and After the Soviet Union

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Felix Sigeback; [2023]
    Keywords : South Caucasus; language policy; postcolonialism; Russia; Armenia; Georgia; Azerbaijan; Russian; Soviet studies; post-Soviet studies;

    Abstract : The aim of my own research is to bind together the limited research done regarding the topic,and to use the research of Russian in the Baltic post-soviet state of Lithuania as a backdrop and comparison. The analysis is postcolonial and comparative, using the concepts of linkage and leverage of Levitsky and Way. READ MORE

  3. 2. North-South entanglements in Somali-Swedish family language policy : Practices, ideologies and everyday challenges

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Juliana Neves Lindgren; [2023]
    Keywords : decoloniality; family language policy; identity; language ideologies; language maintenance; language practices; multilingualism; Somali;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the family language policies (FLP) of two Somali-Swedish families living in Rinkeby, Stockholm. It focuses on the relationships between FLP and identity construction in different social spaces. READ MORE

  4. 3. North-South entanglements in Somali-Swedish family language policy : Practices, ideologies and everyday challenges

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Juliana Neves Lindgren; [2023]
    Keywords : decoloniality; family language policy; identity; language ideologies; language maintenance; language practices; multilingualism; Somali;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the family language policies (FLP) of two Somali-Swedish families living in Rinkeby, Stockholm. It focuses on the relationships between FLP and identity construction in different social spaces. READ MORE

  5. 4. Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition using pretrained models powered by Self-Supervised Learning

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Felix Luthman; [2022]
    Keywords : Speech; Audio; Emotion Recognition; Cross-lingual; Multilingual; Self- Supervised Learning; Wav2vec 2.0; HuBERT; UniSpeech; UniSpeech-SAT; WavLM; Språk; Ljud; Känsloigenkänning; Tvärspråklig; Flerspråkig; Själv-Övervakad Inlärning; Wav2vec 2.0; HuBERT; UniSpeech; UniSpeech-SAT; WavLM;

    Abstract : Society is based on communication, for which speech is the most prevalent medium. In day to day interactions we talk to each other, but it is not only the words spoken that matters, but the emotional delivery as well. Extracting emotion from speech has therefore become a topic of research in the area of speech tasks. READ MORE

  6. 5. Ownership of Englishas a multi-linguafranca : Linguistic identity and innovation in online multilingual practice

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jaana Kalev; [2021]
    Keywords : ELF; networked multilingualism; linguistic identity; language ownership; transient multilingual community; linguistic innovation; thematic analysis;

    Abstract : In recent years, some of the research within the field of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) seems to have gone through a re-orientation, shifting focus from form to practice. This has highlighted the dynamic nature of languages and identities performed in interaction, leading to the conceptualization of ‘English as a multi-lingua franca’, which refers to placing emphasis on multilingualism in ELF interactions. READ MORE