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The More Things Change: Grammatical Conservatism in Historical Narrative Texts at Late Classic Tikal
Direct linkEmily K. Davis-Hale – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Tikal, notably conservative in culture among its peer polities, maintains that tendency in the case of monumental texts. In this dissertation I draw on a corpus of Late Classic monuments (ca. AD 600-900) to argue, through analysis of morphological forms, that scribal tradition at Tikal was not only conservative but intentionally so. Literacy…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Literacy, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
Jill S. Pagels – ProQuest LLC, 2021
English has emerged as an international language. The hegemonic positioning of English is problematic for previously colonized places such as the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The remote coral atoll Pacific Island nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands has a history of colonization. Critical Literacy supports reflective analysis of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Critical Literacy
Peer reviewedElspaß, Stephan – Language Policy, 2020
What almost all accounts of standardisation histories have in common is a focus on printed, formal or literary texts from writing elites. While Haugen identified the written form of a language as "a significant and probably crucial requirement for a standard language" (Haugen in Am Anthropol 68:922-935, 1966a; Haugen, in: Bright (ed)…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Language Planning, Linguistic Theory
Martin, J. R. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2013
This paper takes as point of departure the register variable field, and explores its application to the discourse of History and Biology in secondary school classrooms from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. In particular it considers the functions of technicality and abstraction in these subject specific discourses, and their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Literacy
Lanz, Linda A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation is a reference grammar of the Malimiut Coastal dialect of Inupiaq (ISO: ESI, ESK, IPK), an Eskimo-Aleut language of northwestern Alaska spoken by the Inupiat people. It complements existing descriptions of Inupiaq by filling gaps in documentation. With approximately 2000 speakers, mainly above 50 years of age, Inupiaq is…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonetics, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages)
Godley, Amanda J.; Carpenter, Brian D.; Werner, Cynthia A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the language ideologies--the assumptions about the nature of language, language variation, and language learning--reflected in a widespread daily editing activity often known as Daily Oral Language or Daily Language Practice. Through a yearlong ethnographic study of grammar instruction in three urban,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Standard Spoken Usage, State Standards, Ideology
