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Peer reviewedBilmes, Jack – Linguistics, 1975
Misinformation and ambiguity as features of social communication in Northern Thai villages are examined. The questions of how well Northern Thai villagers understand each others' verbal communications, and how accurate their statements actually are, are considered. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Dialect Studies, Mutual Intelligibility, Regional Dialects
Download full textCharrow, Veda R.; Crandall, Jo Ann – 1978
The simplification of legal language is required by President Carter's Executive Order requiring "clear and simple English" in government regulations. A major problem in the simplification process is the absence of any adequate description or classification of legal language. This paper defines some specific features of legal language,…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Research, Language Standardization
Farris, Amal – 1975
The purpose of this paper is to present a general overview of the linguistic setting of Arabic. Three main areas are covered. The first of these, diglossia, is defined in general terms and then examined more closely in relation to its historical development in Arabic-speaking countries (i.e., as resulting from geographic, socioeconomic, and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
