Lingua e identità nella Hong Kong postcoloniale: ‘lingua comune’ (putonghua, 普通话) e cantonese, un rapporto difficile

A Grammar of Mandarin Chinese 普通话语言学

Lingua Franca @ E-learning: Contours of Contradictions in Multilingualism

The new social media-driven phenomenal communicative modes transform e-learning and e-sharing experience in and beyond different linguistic and cultural spaces; like the Facebook or Twitter, socioeconomic activities at a global scale seem more and more borderless and just-in-time, allowing most forms of communication: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many. The everincreasingly o...

Lingua Franca

This paper examines a set of three patterns that examine the issues that arise when data are to be shared among several applications in one or more different formats. When an ENGLISH ONLY/STANDARD REPRESENTATION can be used, conversion and translation are moot issues. However, this simplicity is not without its cost. When freely CONVERTIBLE CURRENCIES are available, data are not isolated and tr...

Portal da Lingua Portuguesa

The goal of the Portal da Língua Portuguesa project is to construe a set of lexical resources with a double objective. On the one hand, the resources serve as the content source for a web site about the Portuguese language, aimed at the general public. On the other hand, the resources are built to serve as an open source repository of lexical information for linguistic research. The design of t...

The Lingua Franca of Technology

To be well-informed computer scientists, do we need to follow the Russian, Chinese, or Romanian computing literature? Can we say our field is truly international when we publish most of our results in English? Must a global community rely on a common tongue—a lingua franca—to support its activities? I’d never thought about Romanian computing literature before I stumbled upon it at the Library o...