Search for dissertations about: "Diglossia"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word Diglossia.

2. 1. Arabic in Home Language Instruction : Language Acquisition in a Fuzzy Linguistic Situation

   Author : Amanda Walldoff; Elie Wardini; Emanuel Bylund; Helle Lykke Nielsen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic; diglossia; home language instruction; bilingualism; writing in Arabic; Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Mellanösterns språk och kulturer;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the command 8th-graders in Arabic home language instruction have of written Modern Standard Arabic and if the type of instruction they have received and/or contact with written Arabic affect their performance. Background chapters discuss variables connected to the Arabic language (diglossia, research on reading and writing in Arabic) and variables connected to HLI in Sweden (set-up, steering documents). READ MORE

4. 2. The Greek of the Ancient Synagogue : An Investigation on the Greek of the Septuagint, Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament

   Author : Georg Walser; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sociolinguistics; foreign languages teaching; Applied linguistics; translation technique; Pentateuch; synagogue; Septuagintism; Semitism; Hebrew influence; code-switching; diglossia; conjunctions; particles; word order; participles; New Testament; Septuagint; Pseudepigrapha; Tillämpad lingvistik; undervisning i främmande språk; sociolingvistik; Greek language; Grekiska språket; Bible; Bibelvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study attempts to test the hypothesis that there existed a peculiar variety of Greek which was used for certain purposes by Jewish and Christian writers in the context of the synagogue. It is argued that the origin of this variety was the translation Greek of the Pentateuch, and the background for the hypothesis is the polyglossic nature of the Greek language, i. READ MORE

5. 3. Performing Bilingualism in Wales with the Spotlight on Welsh : A Study of Language Policy and the Language Practices of Young People in Bilingual Education

   Author : Nigel John Musk; Jan Anward; Angelika Linke; Peter Auer; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bilingualism; Bilingual education; Diglossia; Language practices; Language policy and planning; Wales; Welsh; Code-switching; Performativity; Discourse analysis; Conversation Analysis; Tvåspråkighet; Tvåspråkig utbildning; Diglossi; Språkliga praktiker; Språkplanering och språkpolitik; Wales; Walesiska; Kodväxling; Performativitet; Diskursanalys; Samtalsanalys; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet;

   Abstract : The recently established National Assembly for Wales (with the vision of a “truly bilingual Wales”) and bilingual schools are but two major sites in which bilingualism is reconstituting and repackaging Welsh.By close examination of the discourse(s) of language policy texts, the public discourse of one bilingual secondary school and the discussions of four focus groups composed of pupils from the same school, this study identifies three types of discourse which are particularly salient in contemporary Wales: a globalising discourse, a nationalist discourse and an ecology-of-language discourse. READ MORE

6. 4. Linguistic Landshapes. A comparison of official and non-official language management in Rwanda and Uganda, focusing on the position of African languages

   Author : Tove Rosendal; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rwanda; Uganda; African languages; multilingualism; language competition; linguistic market; macro-sociolinguistic; Multilingual Management Model MMM ; quantitative analysis; official multilingual management; non-official multilingual management; Chaudenson; Bourdieu; country comparison; embedded diglossia;

   Abstract : This thesis is a macro-sociolinguistic study and comparison of language status and use in Rwanda and Uganda. The data was collected in fieldwork. The study covers the main formal domains in society, both official and non-official. A model for analysis, inspired by Chaudenson, was created. READ MORE

7. 5. Case Endings in Spoken Standard Arabic

   Author : Andreas Hallberg; Arabiska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern Standard Arabic; corpus linguistics; spoken language;

   Abstract : Morphologically marked case is a salient Standard Arabic feature without parallel in Arabic dialects. As such it is a grammatical system learned by native speakers of Arabic through formal education. READ MORE