: Language Shift: Social Determinants of Linguistic Change in Bilingual Austria . Susan Gal.

Language contact and language change – linguistic and social issues

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...

Language Identification in Bilingual Texts for Linguistic Data Extraction

This talk presents a novel language identification task: token-level language ID in bilingual documents, specifically in the context of a system for extracting linguistic data from digital documents. The overall extraction system operates by first identifying instances of foreign-language text in the document, then identifying nearby reference-language text that is a translation the foreign tex...

‏‎interpersonal function of language in subtitling

‏‎translation as a comunicative process is always said to be associated with various aspects of meaning loss or gain. subtitling as a mode of translating, due to special discoursal and textual conditions imposed upon it, is believed to be an obvious case of this loss or gain. presenting the spoken sound track of a film in writing and synchronizing the perception of this text by the viewers with...

Universals of language maintenance, shift and change.

Since Greenberg the recognition of linguistic universals has been the backbone of language typology. Earlier Garvin had already divided universals into absolute and potential ones, the former uncontested cornerstones of linguistic theory, the latter commonly accepted generalizations among experienced professionals. The 'universals' to be discussed here are of the latter type: tried and tested p...