Codeswitching between different languages is often likened to style-shifting within a single language (c.f. Gumperz 1982, Myers-Scotton 1993, Ervin-Tripp 2001, Schilling-Estes 2001), yet the two phenomena are generally investigated separately and in studies that fall into different linguistic subfields. This paper compares style-shifting and codeswitching in the same setting, drawing on a data ...

Few things give me greater pleasure than reading good prose. I've been reading an unbroken series of what I snobbishly call "good books" – Dickens, Trollope, Hemingway, Powell, Austen, Eliot, Conrad, James, Proust, Balzac, Roth, Updike, McEwan, and the like – since I was a teenager. Beside my bed I have a copy of Harold Bloom's The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer to Frost. Bloo...

Author profiling is the task of determining age, gender, native language or personality type of author by studying their sociolect aspect, that is, how language is shared by people. In this paper, we propose a Machine Learning approach to determine unknown author’s age and gender. The approach uses three types of features: content based, style based and topic based. We were able to achieve an a...

Despite the global spread of English, it seems that voices from Persian-speaking teachers concerning English as an international language (EIL) teaching methods and materials are underrepresented. The present study set out to explore how nonnative Persian-speaking English language teachers respond to the increasing global dominance of EIL and native- and non-native-speakers’ language norms with...

many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. however, this belief is not without its own opponents. to many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. the ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...