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Saleem, Aisha; Saleem, Tahir; Aziz, Asif – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because the expressive speech act "congratulations" is not the only way to express happiness and share others their happy news. The present study investigates the congratulation…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shorten, Andrew – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Policymakers need a conception of linguistic disadvantage to supply guidance about the relative priority of inequalities with a linguistic dimension and to inform decisions about whether such inequalities require correction or compensation. A satisfactory conception of linguistic disadvantage will make it possible to compare the situations of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Decision Making, Comparative Analysis, Language Planning
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de Heredia-Deprez, Christine – Langue Francaise, 1976
This article wishes to initiate a sociolinguistic study of the linguistic behavior of migrant workers in France. The methodology proposed is to resemble that presently used by US sociolinguists in the study of American ethnic communities and include such basic concepts as "Linguistic Community" and "Language Loyalty." (Text is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, French, Language Role, Language Usage