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The Risky Academy: February 2019

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Merri Beth Lavagnino

The Risky Academy: January 2019

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The Risky Academy: January 2019

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This submission, titled "The Risky Academy: January 2019," presents a significant challenge for review due to the absence of a substantive abstract. T...

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Stephanie Hughes

Bilingualism in North-East France with specific reference to Rhenish Franconian spoken by Moselle Cross-border (or frontier) workers

Linguistics

This chapter examines the phenomena of bilingualism in the contact zone of the Moselle area of North-East France on the border with the Saarland, whe...

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This chapter offers a valuable examination of bilingualism in the unique contact zone of North-East France, specifically the Moselle area bordering Sa...

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Anne Fabricius

Mobility, contact and an accent norm: the case of Received Pronunciation

Linguistics

This paper will focus on various facets of RP as an accent norm. In the first part of the paper I will set the stage for a renewed sociolinguistic vi...

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This paper promises a timely and comprehensive re-examination of Received Pronunciation (RP) as an accent norm, addressing its evolving status within...

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Matt H. Ciscel

Language and identity in post-Soviet Moldova

Linguistics

The multilingual Republic of Moldova emerged from the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 as an example of the linguistic complications that can resul...

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This paper promises a timely and insightful examination of the complex interplay between language and identity in the Republic of Moldova, a country u...

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Jaine Beswick

The Portuguese diaspora in Jersey

Linguistics

This present paper concerns recent migrations from the Portuguese mainland and from the island of Madeira to the English and French speaking territor...

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This paper introduces a compelling and timely investigation into the Portuguese diaspora in Jersey, a unique sociolinguistic context often overlooked...

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Petra Daryai-Hansen

Promoting linguistic diversity Reflections on the language policy of European language policy conferences

Linguistics

To face up to the omnipresence of ?Anglo-American? (as defined in footnote 2), conferences on language policy today address the issue of promoting li...

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The article, "Promoting linguistic diversity: Reflections on the language policy of European language policy conferences," immediately draws attention...

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Dag F. Simonsen

Over the fence ? and into English? Reflections on adolescents, academics, linguistic development and language policy in Norway in the early 2000s

Linguistics

After a discussion of recent language-policy developments in the Scandinavian countries, and of the domain loss theory saying English may displace Sc...

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The paper "Over the fence? and into English? Reflections on adolescents, academics, linguistic development and language policy in Norway in the early...

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Bent Preisler

Deconstructing ?the domain of science? as a sociolinguistic entity in EFL societies: The relationship between English and Danish in higher education and research

Linguistics

Preisler introduces the Danish debate concerning the influence of English on Danish language and language use, and ? drawing on previous research ? d...

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This paper tackles the critical and increasingly relevant sociolinguistic issue of English's influence on national languages within the academic spher...

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This paper offers a timely and critical re-examination of the "domain" concept, a foundational construct in sociolinguistics, particularly as it relat...