Region and language variation

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.K. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Soft Drink ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Know How ◽  
Running Shoes ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
First Time

Traditional dialectology took region as its primary and often its only independent variable. Because of numerous social changes, region is no longer the primary determinant of language variation, and contemporary (sociolinguistic) dialectology has expanded the number of independent variables. In Dialect Topography, we survey a representative population, and that population inevitably includes some subjects born outside the survey region. We want to know how these non-natives affect language use in the community. Admitting them thus requires us to implement some mechanism for identifying them in order to compare their language use to the natives. The mechanism is called the Regionality Index (RI). Subjects are ranked on a scale from 1 to 7, with the best representatives of the region (indigenes) receiving a score of 1, the poorest (interlopers) a score of 7, and subjects of intermediate degrees of representativeness in between. I look at three case studies in which RI is significant: bureau in Quebec City, running shoes in the Golden Horseshoe, and soft drink in Quebec City. These results introduce a new dimension to the study of language variation as a regional phenomenon and provide a framework for the integration of regionality as one independent variable among many in dialect studies. The RI provides, perhaps for the first time, an empirical basis for inferring the sociolinguistic effects of mobility.

Die Schreibsprache der Briefe von Wilhelm von Berg (1401–1428)

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-137
Author(s):  
Akira Kusamoto
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Written Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
Letter Writer ◽  
First Time ◽  
North Western ◽  
New Location

Abstract The purpose of this study was to discover the language preferences of a letter writer for Wilhelm von Berg (1401–1428) in 15th century Westphalia. Various written languages such as Ripuarian, Westphalian and Eastphalian were already established in the region and it is known that writers sometimes mixed one language variation with the other. The study also considers other questions: i) Did writers maintain their prior-developed writing habits? ii) Did they learn the written language practiced at a new location when changing their place of work? The research uses a collection of correspondences between Wilhelm and his siblings, most of which are published here for the first time. They cover his frequent moves from within North-Western Germany when he either wrote letters himself or had them written for him. The study starts with distinguishing the handwritings of his letters, and then moves to an analysis of language variations used through a comparison of specific words. Results show that changing location for one writer (probably Wilhelm himself) did not greatly influence his language use, but that he took on new variants of certain words in his letters.

Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Dunmore
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
School Based ◽  
Immersion Education ◽  
Medium Education ◽  
Language Revitalisation ◽  
First Time

Situated within the interrelated disciplines of applied sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, this book explores the language use and attitudinal perceptions of a sample of 130 adults who received Gaelic-medium education (GME) at primary school, during the first years of that system’s availability in Scotland. The school is viewed by policymakers as a crucial site for language revitalisation in such diverse contexts as Hawai’i, New Zealand and the Basque Country – as well as throughout the Celtic-speaking world. In Scotland, GME is seen as a key area of language development, regarded by policymakers as a strategic priority for revitalising Gaelic, and maintaining its use by future generations of speakers. Yet theorists have stressed that school-based policy interventions are inadequate for realising this objective in isolation, and that without sufficient support in the home and community, children are unlikely to develop strong identities or supportive ideologies in the language of their classroom instruction. For the first time, this book provides an in-depth assessment of language use, ideologies and attitudes among adults who received an immersion education in a minority language, and considers subsequent prospects for language revitalisation in contemporary society. Based on detailed analyses using mixed methods, the book offers empirically grounded suggestions for individuals and policymakers seeking to revitalise languages internationally. 

scholarly journals The Influence Of Climate Leadership, Organizational Behavior And Discipline Work Against The Performance Of Members Of The Police Of The Republic Of Indonesia Sabhara Units Of The Resort City Of Padang

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Kusuma Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Know How ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Republic

The purpose of this research was: 1) to explain whether there was a Climate of leadership, Organizational Behavior Disciplines Work on performance of Member unit of the police of the Republic of Indonesia Sabhara Resort City of Padang and 2) measure the magnitude of the influence of Climate leadership, Organizational Behavior Disciplines Work on performance of Member unit of the police of the Republic of Indonesia Sabhara Resort City of Padang.This research was conducted in February-March 2016 in Sabhara units of the police force of the Republic Indonesia's resort city of Padang.The sample used in this study as many as 32 respondents using a sampling of saturated. As for the independent variable of climate leadership, Organizational Behavior Disciplines work, whereas the variable dependennya is the performance of members of the police. This research is explanatory research.The method of data collection is the kuestioner. Data analysis techniques using Descriptive Analysis and Inferensial Analysis.To know how the variables are independent of the dependent variable are partial, used test t. Whereas to know the influence of the variables are independent of the dependent variables simultaneously, use the test F. Assumptions used in the test of validity is if R-female > R-table item is declared valid. R-count shown in the table above, from individual items suggests that R-female > R-table so that the items are declared valid.Based on a test of the validity of the instrument of climate leadership, Organizational Behavior and discipline Work against Performance known to all items stated valid and reliability test results show that the instruments have a high reliability and meets the criteria of a good instrument requirements, i.e., valid and reliability.Free Leadership Behavior variables (X 1) effect significantly to performance (Y), Organizational Climate (X 2) a significant effect on performance, variable (Y) Discipline work (X 3) a significant effect on performance (Y). Hypothesis (H1) until the Union (H3) third.

scholarly journals “When I speak people look at me”

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemina Napier ◽  
Rosemary Oram ◽  
Alys Young ◽  
Robert Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Sign Language Interpreters ◽  
Situational Influences ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time ◽  
Deaf Signers

Abstract Deaf people’s lives are predicated to some extent on working with sign language interpreters. The self is translated on a regular basis and is a long-term state of being. Identity becomes known and performed through the translated self in many interactions, especially at work. (Hearing) others’ experience of deaf people, largely formed indirectly through the use of sign language interpreters, is rarely understood as intercultural or from a sociocultural linguistic perspective. This study positions itself at the cross-roads of translation studies, sociolinguistics and deaf studies, to specifically discuss findings from a scoping study that sought, for the first time, to explore whether the experience of being ‘known’ through translation is a pertinent issue for deaf signers. Through interviews with three deaf signers, we examine how they draw upon their linguistic repertoires and adopt bimodal translanguaging strategies in their work to assert or maintain their professional identity, including bypassing their representation through interpreters. This group we refer to as ‘Deaf Contextual Speakers’ (DCS). The DCS revealed the tensions they experienced as deaf signers in reinforcing, contravening or perpetuating language ideologies, with respect to assumptions that hearing people make about them as deaf people, their language use in differing contexts; the status of sign language; as well as the perceptions of other deaf signers about their translanguaging choices. This preliminary discussion of DCS’ engagement with translation, translanguaging and professional identity(ies) will contribute to theoretical discussions of translanguaging through the examination of how this group of deaf people draw upon their multilingual and multimodal repertoires, contingent and situational influences on these choices, and extend our understanding of the relationship between language use, power, identity, translation and representation.

scholarly journals The nanostructuring of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene in thermal and mechanical fields as revealed by DSC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2103 (1) ◽  
pp. 012095
Author(s):  
L P Myasnikova ◽  
A K Borisov ◽  
Yu M Boiko ◽  
A P Borsenko ◽  
V F Drobot’ko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
High Molecular Weight ◽  
Melting Temperature ◽  
Mechanical Characteristics ◽  
Thickness Distribution ◽  
High Strength ◽  
High Modulus ◽  
Know How ◽  
First Time ◽  
Ultra High Molecular Weight

Abstract The ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene reactor powders are widely used for the actively developing solvent-free method for producing high-strength high-modulus PE filaments, which includes the compaction and sintering of a powder followed by orientational hardening. To find an appropriate regime of the technological process, it is important to know how the nanostructure changes when transforming from a powder to a precursor for hardening. Nanocrystalline lamellae are characteristics of the powder structure. For the first time, the DSC technique was used to follow changes in the thickness distribution of lamellae in ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene reactor powder on its way to a precursor for orientation hardening. It was found that the percentage of thick (>15 nm) and thin (10 nm) lamellae in compacted samples and those sintered at temperatures lower than the melting temperature of PE (140°C) remains nearly the same. However, significant changes in the content of lamellae of different thicknesses were observed in the samples sintered at 145°C with subsequent cooling under different conditions. The influence of the lamellae thickness distribution in precursors on the mechanical characteristics of oriented filaments was discussed.

scholarly journals Kertsopoulos Innovation: The Three Multi-plane Polarities and the Three Interactions and Schematic Representations in the Sense of the General Cause of the Dynamic Difference

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Magnetic System ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Magnetic Devices ◽  
Know How ◽  
Patented Invention ◽  
Scientific Laws ◽  
First Time ◽  
Multiple Interactions

As it is known: in the state of the art, the like and the unlike polarity between two magnets remains independent of the distance between them. According to the invention: “Magnetic System of Three Interactions”, International office of patents WIPO-PCT, bearing the No WO/2013/136097of the inventor Georgios K. Kertsopoulos, the like and the unlike polarity between two magnetic constructions depends on the distance between them [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]. The know-how of the invention makes it possible for interacting magnetic constructions to possess and perform interchangeable more than 96 polarities and interactions. Polarities and magnetic fields can in multiple ways interchange, depending on the varying distance between two interacting confronted magnetic constructions, offering many new variable design capabilities. For the first time, new types of poles are created, for example: simultaneous like-unlike poles or simultaneous unlike-like poles are created, causing stable or unstable balance as an interaction; also, for the first time in magnetism, new types of magnetic fields are formed never before observed, for example: remote fields of very strong attraction, without however, the contact of the magnetic constructions. The magnetic devices that perform these multiple interactions are fully patented internationally, published in a book in English, by the inventor a book in English, by the inventor [11]. The new scientific laws and principles, revealed through these experiments enrich the very basics, the foundation of magnetism, since many new types of polarities and interactions are introduced and are made possible for the first time in science and technology. In figure 1 of the article we observe the division and determination of the empty air space, between the magnetic constructions, at three distances and two boundaries which apply both for the like and the unlike front poles and in figure 2 we observe the three typical spatial distances, the three multi-plane polarities and the three interactions with properties and with spatial boundaries and interactions based on the bundles of the dynamic lines between the two magnetic constructions, on the guide, when the poles of the front poles of the arrangements are initially like. Furthermore, in figure 7 we observe a schematic representation of the three different fields (175), (177) and (178) between the above-mentioned magnetic arrangements of the constructions of the invention, with initially like front poles, in the sense of the general cause of the dynamic difference. This article is in continuation of the following published article that introduces the reader to the invention’s technology: Georgios K. Kertsopoulos (2018) Innovation article: 36 over passed restrictions of magnetism achieved by the 96 multiple magnetic polarities-interactions performed by the Kertsopoulos world patented invention vs. the known two. Advances in Nanoscience and nanotechnology [12]. https://www.opastonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/36-over-passed-restrictions-of-magnetism-achieved-by-the-96- multiple-magnetic-polarities-interactions-performed-by-the-kertsopoulos-world-ann-18.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1jYPFME5mhX2FLbKKTPAdu0YMe3FqHtoUdoRoeao8mKIp1GRuWeovEaA

scholarly journals Robust association between autistic traits and psychotic-like experiences in the adult general population: epidemiological study from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey and replication with the 2014 APMS

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anton P. Martinez ◽  
Sophie Wickham ◽  
Georgina Rowse ◽  
Elizabeth Milne ◽  
Richard P. Bentall
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Autistic Traits ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Specific Symptoms ◽  
First Time

Abstract Background Studies have shown that there are overlapping traits and symptoms between autism and psychosis but no study to date has addressed this association from an epidemiological approach in the adult general population. Furthermore, it is not clear whether autistic traits are associated with specific symptoms of psychosis or with psychosis in general. We assess these associations for the first time by using the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) 2007 and the APMS 2014, predicting an association between autistic traits and probable psychosis, and specific associations between autistic traits and paranoia and strange experiences. Methods Participants (N = 7353 in 2007 and 7500 in 2014) completed the Psychosis Screening Questionnaire (PSQ) and a 20-item version of the Autism Quotient (AQ-20). Binomial logistic regressions were performed using AQ-20 as the independent variable and probable psychosis and specific symptoms as dependent variables. Results In the APMS 2007 dataset, significant associations were found between autism traits and probable psychosis, paranoia, thought insertion, and strange experiences. These results were replicated in APMS 2014 but with the additional significant association between autistic traits and hallucinations. Participants in the highest quartile of the AQ-20, compared with the lowest quartile, had an increased risk of probable psychosis of odds ratio (OR) = 15.5 [95% confidence interval (CI) 4.57–52.6] in APMS 2007 and OR = 22.5 (95% CI 7.64–66.3) in APMS 2014. Conclusions Autistic traits are strongly associated with probable psychosis and psychotic experiences with the exception of mania. Limitations such as the cross-sectional nature of the study are discussed.

Advances in testing the effect of acceleration on time dilation using a synchrotron Mössbauer source

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Friedman ◽  
I. Nowik ◽  
I. Felner ◽  
J. M. Steiner ◽  
E. Yudkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Rotating Disk ◽  
Spectral Shift ◽  
Time Dilation ◽  
Single Line ◽  
Nuclear Resonance ◽  
Relative Shift ◽  
Know How ◽  
First Time ◽  
Synchrotron Mössbauer Source

New results, additional techniques and know-how acquired, developed and employed in a recent HC-1898 experiment at the Nuclear Resonance Beamline ID18 of ESRF are presented, in the quest to explore the acceleration effect on time dilation. Using the specially modified Synchrotron Mössbauer Source and KB-optics together with a rotating single-line semicircular Mössbauer absorber on the rim of a specially designed rotating disk, the aim was to measure the relative spectral shift between the spectra of two states when the acceleration of the absorber is anti-parallel and parallel to the source. A control system was used for the first time and a method to quantify the effects of non-random vibrations on the spectral shift was developed. For several runs where the effect of these vibrations was negligible, a stable statistically significant non-zero relative shift was observed. This suggests the influence of acceleration on time.

scholarly journals Emotional Reflexivity in Contemporary Friendships: Understanding it Using Elias and Facebook Etiquette

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Know How ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Advice Books ◽  
Status Differences

The popular social networking site Facebook has become a part of millions of people's everyday lives. In order to help people navigate the friendships they form and maintain on Facebook there are many websites offering advice about etiquette. This advice, and responses to it, can help reveal how contemporary emotional expression is organised, especially as it relates to friendship. This paper critically adapts the approach of other sociologists such as Norbert Elias, and Cas Wouters who have used etiquette and advice books to explore social changes in emotionality. Using online advice about Facebook etiquette, it is argued that there is uncertainty about the degree of emotional closeness appropriate for friendships in contemporary life, especially where there are status differences. It is difficult to know how to feel and how to behave within the relational complexity of contemporary life. In particular, expanded definitions of friendship form part of this complexity which promotes and requires an ‘emotionalisation of reflexivity’.

Minimal Sign Representation of Boolean Functions: Algorithms and Exact Results for Low Dimensions

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1796-1823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Eren Sezener ◽  
Erhan Oztop
Keyword(s):  
Circuit Design ◽  
Boolean Functions ◽  
Neural Computation ◽  
Exact Results ◽  
Low Dimensions ◽  
Know How ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Brain

Boolean functions (BFs) are central in many fields of engineering and mathematics, such as cryptography, circuit design, and combinatorics. Moreover, they provide a simple framework for studying neural computation mechanisms of the brain. Many representation schemes for BFs exist to satisfy the needs of the domain they are used in. In neural computation, it is of interest to know how many input lines a neuron would need to represent a given BF. A common BF representation to study this is the so-called polynomial sign representation where [Formula: see text] and 1 are associated with true and false, respectively. The polynomial is treated as a real-valued function and evaluated at its parameters, and the sign of the polynomial is then taken as the function value. The number of input lines for the modeled neuron is exactly the number of terms in the polynomial. This letter investigates the minimum number of terms, that is, the minimum threshold density, that is sufficient to represent a given BF and more generally aims to find the maximum over this quantity for all BFs in a given dimension. With this work, for the first time exact results for four- and five-variable BFs are obtained, and strong bounds for six-variable BFs are derived. In addition, some connections between the sign representation framework and bent functions are derived, which are generally studied for their desirable cryptographic properties.

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