Varieties of the Spanish language: past tenses La Fundéu and La Real Academia Española are some of the institutions in charge of explaining the correct use of the Spanish language. They recommend the use of both past perfect and past simple. However, in some parts of Galicia, Asturias, a...
Examples of such problems will be derived from the second-language corpus I am primarily concerned with, the Corpus of East African English, but the principles of socio-stylistic variation in native and non-native varieties of English go far beyond this immediate context. They aim at combining ...
8.1TwoKindsofVarieties •Theuseoflanguageisgovernedbyavariety ofsituations.Somesituationsdepend generallyandfairlyconsistentlyonsome regularsetsoflanguagefeatures,sothat languagevarietiesoccur. •语言变体是一个范畴较大的概念。它既包括由于语言使用者的不同导致的语言差异,也包括因为语言使用时的社会环境不同导致...
Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture(Cambridge, 2002). In this interview with lively older women who had lived through the Great Migration and were discussing their experiences living in Chicago at that time, one of them mentioned her apartment, describing it...
Linguists use two criteria to identify languages – 1) a language is considered to be a collection of speechvarietiesthatare mutually intelligible, and 2) group self identification: if two groups of people see themselves as different people, two distinct language should be recognised (UNESCO-UIS,...
speak English. Between 375,000,000 and 400,000,000 people are native English speakers. In view of these statistics, many consider the English language to be a world language. Since the English language has become so widespread, it is no surprise that different varieties of English have arisen...
Symbolism: In the language of flowers, Pulmonaria officinalis can symbolize healing and protection. Wildlife: The flowers are attractive to pollinators like bees and butterflies. If you are looking for a Lungwort with historical significance and those classic spotted leaves, Pulmonaria officinalis is a...
Consequently,theearlysettlerswerecompellednotonlytoadjusttheirhabitsoflifeandmodifytheirmethodsofagriculture,butalsotomakeforcedadjustmentstotheirlanguage.ThesesettlerscalledupontheresourcestheyalreadyhadinEnglishandbythestraightforwardandwell-establishedprocedureofcombinationfashionednamesfornewexperiences....
a.Something that is distinguished from others of the same kind by a specific characteristic or set of characteristics:varieties of minerals; varieties of socialism. b.A form of a language that is used by a specific social group and differs from forms used by other social groups:regional varieti...
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