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Full-Text Articles in Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Invited Editorial: African Pygmies, What's Behind A Name?, Paul Verdu, Giovanni Destro-Bisol Feb 2012

Invited Editorial: African Pygmies, What's Behind A Name?, Paul Verdu, Giovanni Destro-Bisol

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

No abstract provided.


On Swearwords And Slang, Robert Moore Jan 2012

On Swearwords And Slang, Robert Moore

Faculty Publications

Slang lexemes and swearwords are commonly discussed in conjunction with each other as though they were slightly different versions of the same phenomenon. However, they clearly are not, as a careful consideration of their different prototypical functions reveals. Each of these lexical categories has a central or core function, and in each case this function is linked to the obligatory expression of affect. Different kinds of affect are entailed in the prototypical uses of slang and of swearwords, but in the case of both of these lexical types, this affect is incompatible with the formality and deference of honorifics, or, …


The African Contribution To Brazilian Portuguese: To What Extent Did The Speech Of Slaves Influence The Mother Tongue?, Fernanda Ferriera Dec 2002

The African Contribution To Brazilian Portuguese: To What Extent Did The Speech Of Slaves Influence The Mother Tongue?, Fernanda Ferriera

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


What's Wrong With The Way Women Speak?, Deborah J. Cameron Oct 1990

What's Wrong With The Way Women Speak?, Deborah J. Cameron

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Deborah Cameron (What's Wrong With the Way Women Speak?)


Michael Walsh's Review Of R. M. W. Dixon's The Languages Of Australia, Michael Walsh Sep 1982

Michael Walsh's Review Of R. M. W. Dixon's The Languages Of Australia, Michael Walsh

Pacific Studies

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Paul L. Garvin's Review Of Kenneth L. Rehg And Damian G. Sohl's Ponapean Reference Grammar, Paul L. Garvin Sep 1982

Paul L. Garvin's Review Of Kenneth L. Rehg And Damian G. Sohl's Ponapean Reference Grammar, Paul L. Garvin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Aboriginal Australians Speak : An Introduction To Australian Aboriginal Linguistics, Eric G. Vaszolyi Jan 1976

Aboriginal Australians Speak : An Introduction To Australian Aboriginal Linguistics, Eric G. Vaszolyi

Research outputs pre 2011

It has duly been recognized that Aboriginal society in Australia is far from homogeneous. People and groups referred to as part-Aborigines, urban Aborigines, fringe-dwellers, rural Aborigines, traditionally oriented or tribal Aborigines in the outback and so on display considerable diversity in terms of culture, identity, aspirations and the like. Language is no exception. Some Aboriginal people (mainly in cities or towns and some rural areas) would speak as good an English as any non-Aboriginal Australian and often much better: indeed, their only language, their. 'mother tongue' is English. In contrast, in the outback one can still meet Aborigines who speak …