Contact Situations and Foreigner Talk
Leei Wong HASS, Sheridan College, Perth, Western Australia 6000 [Abstract] This report explores the nature of foreigner talk (FT) which occurs in the naturalistic conversati...
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A Metaphor of Identity
Using Rimbaud’s metaphor “Je est un autre”, we try to see how a change in the language one uses brings about a different way of relating to oneself, of understanding one’s identity.
Read It“Begin at the beginning”: Lawyers and Linguists Together in Wonderland
What do patterns in legal language tell us about power, policy and justice? This question was at the heart of a conference on “The Fabric of Language and Law: Discovering Patterns through Legal Cor...
Read ItAbout Visual Acuity and Type Design: A Protocol
Introduction It is well known that the fund of knowledge of what it is now known as Graphic Design has been assembled from many other disciplines. On the one hand, it is possible to talk about sub...
Read ItPreliminary Results from a Telecollaborative Exchange between Japan and Taiwan using Facebook Groups
According to David Crystal[1], a British linguist, nearly 3 out of 4 English users are "non-natives". From a sociolinguistic perspective this means that English is no longer the language of the few...
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