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Mobile Parents, Multilingual Children. On the Move: Mobilities in English Language and Literature (SAUTE)
No full textLanguage in Australia: Focus on Australian English, University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland, 8.11.2011
No full textAcquiring Three Languages in Early Childhood: A Sociolinguistic Perspective, Seventh International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, University of Warsaw, 15.-17.9.2011 (L3)
No full textActive trilingualism in early childhood: The motivating role of caregivers in interaction
Get PDFThe present paper is concerned with the language development of two young children from two different families growing up exposed to three languages. The children live in Switzerland and have been exposed to English, French and Swiss German from infancy. The focus is on the children's production of these languages, and the contextual and affective factors which have influenced their levels of active trilingualism. The method consists of two longitudinal case studies. Monthly recordings were made by each caregiver (mother, father and third caregiver) in dyadic interactions with the children from ages 2;1 to 3;1. It was found that one child had a high level of active trilingualism, speaking the language of the caregiver with that caregiver over 90% of the time (measured in utterances). By contrast, the other child had a low level of active trilingualism. An analysis of the children's language exposure, such as the position of the community language in the home, the variety of exposure, the interactional style of the caregivers, and the prestige of the languages involved indicates the importance of motivation, largely influenced by the caregivers in interaction, in explaining the children's different levels of active trilingualism
The Language Development of a Young Trilingual, Eighth International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Oslo, 15.-16.6.2011 (ISB8)
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Verbal Duelling on the Beach: Cultural Translation and the Agonistic Vocabulary of Kyng Alisaunder
No full textWords, words, words: Philology and Beyond: Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
No full textThis Festschrift comprises a series of papers written in honour of the philologist Andreas Fischer, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. As in Andreas Fischer s own research, the main focus of the volume is on words: words in modern varieties, such as emergent conjunctions in Australian, American and British English; words in their cultural and historical context, such as English keywords in Old Norse literature; and words in a diachronic perspective, such as Romance suffixation in the history of English. Many contributions are anchored in the philological tradition that has informed much of Andreas Fischer s own scholarship, such as the study of verbal duelling in the late thirteenth-century romance Kyng Alisaunder. Others examine the construction ofdiscourses, such as those surrounding the Black Death. The volume, with its innovative studies,offers fascinating insights into words, discourses,and their contexts, both past and present
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