Language, Ethnicity, and Change

Orlando Patterson LANGUAGE , ETHNICITY , AND CHANGE

My objectives are several: I want to clarify what ethnicity means and what it does not meancannot mean; I want to clarify the relationship, if any, between language and ethnicity, from the viewpoint of a sociologist who views language as a component of culture and not of a linguist or sociolinguist whose primary focus is language itself; and I want to consider how it is that bidialectism or bil...

Language, ethnicity and intrafirm trade

☆ The authors benefitted from the helpful suggestions b Behfar, AlanBeckenstein, JohnMclaren, Ariell Reshef, Jame Pravin Krishna (who saw an earlier version of the paper) Peter Debaere received research funds from the Darden F ⁎ Corresponding author at: Darden School of Business States. Tel.: +1 434 243 2339; fax: +1 434 243 7678. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. (H. Lee), jle...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Language Change and Language Contact