Situational Code-switching

Situational Code-switching

The tendency in a speech community to use various languages or language varieties in different social contexts, or to switch linguistic patterns in order to…
Phono-semantic Matching

Phono-semantic Matching

The integration of a word into one language from another, typically resulting in a neologism, in which the non-native quality of the word is masked…
Macaronic Language

Macaronic Language

Any expression employing a mixture of languages, particularly multilingual puns or instances in which the languages are otherwise employed in the same context (rather than…
Code-switching – in linguistics

Code-switching – in linguistics

When a speaker switches between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or circumstance, this is referred to…
Contrast between Literature and Language

Contrast between Literature and Language

Language and Literature are two words that appear similar in their purport but strictly speaking they are not so. Language can be simply defined as…
Post Creole Continuum

Post Creole Continuum

Post Creole Continuum represents the range of dialectal variations found in many creole-speaking communities. It also known as the creole continuum. It was coined by…
Official Language

Official Language

Official Language is approved by the government of a country, taught in schools, and used in legal and official documents. It is a language that…
Language Change

Language Change

Language Change is largely regular One can recognise regularities in the types of change which languages undergo, even if these cannot be predicted. It offers…
Gender Neutral Language

Gender Neutral Language

Gender Neutral Language is important in feminism. It became a common feature in written and spoken versions of many languages in the late twentieth century.…
Linguistic Rights

Linguistic Rights

Linguistic Rights is argued that the general assimilation or equation between language rights and human rights is not only erroneous as far as it is…
Linguistic Purism

Linguistic Purism

This article describe about Linguistic Purism, which is a form of prescriptive linguistics. It is often presented as conservative, as a “protection” of a language…
Abstand and Ausbau Languages

Abstand and Ausbau Languages

Abstand and Ausbau Languages means to speak of language settings in which speakers or a portion thereof feel their language to be ‘‘threatened’’ — and…
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