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Berthele, Raphael – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
In this article the way bilinguals handle differing semantic categories in their two languages will be investigated. Drawing on bilingual data from multilingual speakers of Romansh as well as from speakers of (Swiss) German, the tensions that emerge from "conflicting habits" in the two languages are analyzed in the semantic domain of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Romance Languages, Semantics, Verbs
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Moring, Tom; Husband, Charles; Lojander-Visapaa, Catharina; Vincze, Laszlo; Fomina, Joanna; Manty, Nadja Nieminen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This article addresses the relationships between media, media use and language retention. In pursuing this aim, we explore the utility of ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) as a fruitful conceptual tool. The extant research on the relationship between the media and language retention and development provides an encouragement to pursue in more detail…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Bilingualism, Language Research, Case Studies
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Schaller-Schwaner, Iris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This paper derives from an ethnographically oriented study of the emergence of English in innovative disciplinary speech events at a French-German bilingual university in Switzerland. From the outside viewed as dissent from the university's brand bilingualism, the use of English as a lingua franca enabled the multilingual "agents of…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multilingualism