Both qualitative concepts and quantitative methods from evolutionary biology have been applied to linguistics. Many … linguists have noted the similarity between biological evolution and language change, but usually have only employed selective … language change based on such generalized theories. These models have led to the positing of new mechanisms of language change …

mediated by language, and linguistic anthropologists use both precise linguistic analyses and powerful anthropological theories … to describe how educational language use establishes important social relations. Because educational institutions … anthropology through its focus on language form, use, ideology, and domain, and it reviews linguistic anthropological research that …

phrases. Yet the language that has had the most significant impact throughout the years has been the words and phrases used in … the administration of justice regarding the detainees being held on terrorism charges. Wall St. Journal Supreme Court … reporter Jess Bravin’s book, 'The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay,' thoroughly chronicles how the use of …

Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …

In this paper, a description of sentential negation makers in Russian Sign Language (RSL) is provided. Two types of …

individuals speaking their native language. There is also a world language so that every individual is faced with four learning … choices: to study the other local language only, to study the world language only, to study both, and to refrain from studying … either language. We examine the Nash equilibiria of that game determined by communicative benefits (Selten & Pool), and …

This chapter examines how cultural similarities (or differences) represented by common language roots affect economic … and conduct business transactions than in the absence of such commonalities. The link between language, culture, and …

In this brief article, I propose the potential of transepistemic language education in increasingly globalised contexts … to enable more equitable and culturally vitalizing English language teaching (ELT). Tranepistemic language education is a … engage with languages, peoples, cultures, and lands. I present transepistemic language education as a means to foster more …