Essays about: "bilingual status."

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  1. 1. Exploring the effect of stimulus list composition on the Cognate Facilitation Effect in bilingual lexical decision : A study of Danish-Swedish bilinguals

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet

    Author : Revekka Christina Anagnostopoulou; [2022]
    Keywords : Cognate facilitation effect; cognates; interlingual homographs; stimulus list composition; BIA ; Age of Acquisition; lexical decision; bilingualism;

    Abstract : Cognate words have a shared orthographic and semantic representation across languages: kniv (‘knife’) in Danish means the same as kniv in Swedish. Their shared form and meaning give cognates a special status in the bilingual mental lexicon and there is robust evidence that because of this special status they are processed faster than non-cognate words. READ MORE

  3. 2. English profanities in Nordic-language tweets : A comparative quantitative study

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Johannes Widegren; [2022]
    Keywords : Profanity; swearing; swear words; bad language; pragmatic borrowing; loanwords; contact linguistics; Nordic languages; Twitter; geo-tagging; Nordic Tweet Stream; adaptation; Fula ord; svärord; pragmatiska lån; lånord; kontaktlingvistik; nordiska språk; Twitter; geo-taggar; Nordic Tweet Stream; anpassning;

    Abstract : English profanities (i.e. potentially offensive words, including swear words) have been in use for decades in the Nordic languages – Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish – and offer a multitude of opportunities for linguistic expression, along with the domestic, heritage profanities in each language. READ MORE

  4. 3. Latvian Language Policy : Unifying or Polarizing? Reconstructing the Political Debate on Language Reform in the Latvian Education System

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Samuel Holm; [2020]
    Keywords : Latvia; language policy; nationalism; imagined community; national unity;

    Abstract : Languages are not just systems for communication, they are also often a marker of ethnic and/or national identity and sometimes a politically contentious issue. A country where this is the case is Latvia, which has a large Russian-speaking population. During the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Russian became the dominant language in public life. READ MORE

  5. 4. Lived Experiences of a High-Status Language in a Low-Status Medium : Swedish Bilingual Students’ Investment in English Mother Tongue Instruction

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för språkdidaktik

    Author : Scarlett Mannish; [2019]
    Keywords : Cultural Capita; Language Hegemony; Investment; Lived Experiences; Monoglossic Practices; Mother Tongue Instruction; Third Space;

    Abstract : Sweden is one of few countries offering mother tongue instruction (MTI) to students in compulsory education with a native language other than Swedish. Traditionally research has focussed on the benefits of MTI as a space for the development of minority languages despite the logistical and ideological hindrances in execution that have resulted in the subject’s low status. READ MORE

  6. 5. Malta: A Functional Bilingual Society. An analysis of societal and individual bilingualism

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Greta Daniela Moreno Thobo-Carlsen; [2019]
    Keywords : Malta; bilingualism; societal bilingualism; individual bilingualism; bilingual status.;

    Abstract : With the rich history of territorial conquest on the island of Malta, each regime has left its mark on the small archipelago, especially with each linguistic conquest, a new language was formed, influenced and fortified to what we know now as Maltese. Within this thesis we will identify the factors of these regimes which have led Malta to become a bilingual nation. READ MORE