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De Toni, Francesco – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
The relationship between the polite and conventional nature of friendly language and the sincerity of the writer's feelings is a central topic in linguistic and historical research on friendship in epistolary communication. This relationship can be understood in the context of the emotional values and conventionalised emotional practices that…
Descriptors: Authors, Friendship, Emotional Response, Language Usage
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Eichinger, Ludwig – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002
Discusses the language situation in South Tyrol in Switzerland where Italian and German have coexisted for centuries. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, German, Italian
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Rash, Felicity – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002
Focuses on language contact phenomena at the borders of Switzerland's four language communities (German, French, Italian, and Romansch), the legal status of the four Swiss national languages, and the language policies of individual bilingual and trilingual cantons. Describes the historical movements of the language boundaries, with particular…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, French, German