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Main Source
Languages, Worlds, & Worldviews The sustaining inspiration for REP comes from the unsurpassed philosophy of language of the German polyglot, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) who established in the Ethnnolinguistic tradition. More recent…
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Ethnolinguistics Glossary
Analogical Negation Term designating the introduction and negation of the comparison of two terms. While many of the adherents of the Lakoff-Johnson approach to metaphor are concerned with the way we understand…
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Critical Discourse Analysis
Claire Kramsch “Critical discourse analysis in foreign language study in an age of multilingualism”
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Second Language Acquisition
Claire Kramsch Celeste Kinginger, Professor of Applied Linguistics and French at Pennsylvania State University
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Bilingualism
Bilingualism REP is interested in the relationship between worldview and language. But since bilinguals move between languages, they can be said to inhabit very different worldviews. Bilingual individuals move swiftly between modes…
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Psycholinguistics
Comparative linguistics & Psycholinguistics WALS Online The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference…