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I think I know it as long as I don't have to provide a definition. Despite a hard attempt, I have not found a definition in linguistic literature either.
02 May 2017 7,943 15 View
Hello! I am currently trying to write a paper about cockney English for a linguistics seminar and would really like to investigate the influence Cockney has on Estuary English… Unfortunately I...
04 April 2017 6,075 4 View
Which scale can be use to analysis the linguist features of thesis? And what types of questions can be asked?
04 April 2017 8,316 2 View
I'm currently writing an essay about how western interpret the word "jihad". What I am interested in is the linguistic simplification made by English translations of the word "jihad" and the use...
04 April 2017 796 4 View
Constrictive rhetoric research shows that Arabic and English are linguistically, culturally and rhetorically are distant languages and thus they have have their unique features. How can a...
03 March 2017 7,561 8 View
What characteristics define a "music word"?
03 March 2017 7,570 0 View
Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language about 1200 million worldwide highest speakers in the world, after that Mandarin about 1030 million. It is also spoken in all parts of India, as well as Indian...
01 January 2017 4,908 0 View
When I use the dictionary such as Wilhelm Gesenius (Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon) and Marcus Jastrow (Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature) I have difficulty in understanding the...
01 January 2017 1,979 4 View
I'm interested in possible translations of the idiom "schwarz auf weiß": Is there a corresponding phrase in other languages? Does a literary translation make sense? How about explanations of...
12 December 2016 6,346 0 View
I mean some articles, books about the principle of authenticity in teachin English for specific purposes but particularly in linguistic competence formation and in communicative approach. Thanks...
12 December 2016 9,534 0 View
I would like to know your ideas/perspectives/experiences about "Standardization" in Linguistics and Sociology-linguistics.
12 December 2016 7,711 4 View
I need a topic for General Linguistics research, please
12 December 2016 5,956 0 View
Any linguistic/stylistic features will help me.
11 November 2016 7,251 5 View
what I know about Mandarin Chinese is that: - it is an agglutinating language, a morpheme = a word. - its writing system is syllabic. - it is a tonal language, which means that tone plays an...
11 November 2016 7,832 9 View
When an scholar offers a definition in one of his works, should it be such that it is not refutable because no other definition would be better then his/her? Put in other way: after all, what...
10 October 2016 7,634 15 View
Looking for a detailed explanation to language patterns meaning in linguistics and sociolinguistics
10 October 2016 4,831 0 View
Is linguistic imperialism a global phenomenon even today? Are definitions of isms changing?
10 October 2016 4,324 1 View
the impact of teaching grammar on learner's performance: an ex post facto study. please suggest which theory can be apply on it?
10 October 2016 1,141 3 View
Can you give me an example related to single clause- when definition from Oxford dictionary?
10 October 2016 9,859 0 View
05 October 2016 7,588 3 View
I'm interested in experiences you may have had on dealing with the prescriptive mindframe linguistics students bring into the classroom when they first begin their training, and which ways you...
14 September 2016 3,626 9 View
My partner and I have been trying to built a Landslide Susceptibility Map, using a Fuzzy Rule Based approach, with a software called FuzzyCell (Yanar and Akyürek, 2006). We have nine causative...
09 September 2016 3,505 3 View
My main focuses are on refugees however, I am finding that challenging and my other focus is on TESOL, ELLs, linguistic difficulties, stress and trauma and resilience. I am yet to find anythingin...
09 September 2016 9,456 9 View
How do we prove two languages are equal ? I feel by assuming symmetric difference of both languages and if the resulting dfa is empty then we have our solution ! So i need a to know how to find...
09 September 2016 1,471 2 View