The study explores how individual and collective identity(ies) can be constructed and conveyed by language in communicative contexts taking place in language contact situations. Crucial to this concept is the notion of ...

This paper examines the intralingual and interlingual reformulations of a selected corpus of extracts from the eu Directive on international protection and the Decreto Flussi, defining the number of nonEuropean workers ...

One major source of language variation is contact. Contact linguistics investigates stable contact settings, conversely, sociolinguistic research on variation mostly focuses on monolingual speech communities (Léglise & ...

We need a theoretical model that would allow us to analyze the data offered by the use of language in context. In the case proposed here, the use of the so-called verb tenses. We can create a model or also make use of ...

This study concerns the language variation and changes across Borders in a bilingual context: the Acadian French in contact with North American English. In particular, it explores a specific linguistic idiom called Chiac, ...

Drawing upon the framework of Critical Sociolinguistics, this paper aims at understanding the role of English within the Australian mandatory detention system vis-à-vis the material, communicative and symbolic marginalization ...

In this study, a construction marginally found in Ancient Greek is addressed, the participial clause, i.e. a clause whose main verb is a participle. This construction displays a considerable increase in usage frequency in ...

In line with the great changes that took place after World War I, in the societies of German-speaking countries women achieved important goals in the struggle for emancipation. Yet, once legal rights were gained, women had ...