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Cavallaro, Francesco; Chin, Ng Bee – World Englishes, 2009
Language attitude studies have shown that the majority language and its speakers tend to be rated positively along status, intelligence, and power dimensions ("Educated", "Successful", "Intelligent"), while the minority variety and its speakers elicit positive responses in the solidarity semantic category…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Metalinguistics, Semantics, Language Attitudes
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Ong, Kenneth Keng Wee; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
This study reports two metalinguistic parameters that constitute the schematic control of lateral inhibitory links between translation equivalents within the bilingual lexico-semantic system of Green's ("Bilingualism: Language and Cognition" 1:67-81, 1998a, "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition" 1:100-104, 1998b, "The…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Semantics, Nouns, Foreign Countries