Language

The tendency in a speech community to use various languages or language varieties in different social contexts, or to switch linguistic patterns in order to…

The integration of a word into one language from another, typically resulting in a neologism, in which the non-native quality of the word is masked…

Any expression employing a mixture of languages, particularly multilingual puns or instances in which the languages are otherwise employed in the same context (rather than…

When a speaker switches between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or circumstance, this is referred to…

Language and Literature are two words that appear similar in their purport but strictly speaking they are not so. Language can be simply defined as…

Post Creole Continuum represents the range of dialectal variations found in many creole-speaking communities. It also known as the creole continuum. It was coined by…

Official Language is approved by the government of a country, taught in schools, and used in legal and official documents. It is a language that…

Language Change is largely regular One can recognise regularities in the types of change which languages undergo, even if these cannot be predicted. It offers…

Gender Neutral Language is important in feminism. It became a common feature in written and spoken versions of many languages in the late twentieth century.…

Linguistic Rights is argued that the general assimilation or equation between language rights and human rights is not only erroneous as far as it is…

This article describe about Linguistic Purism, which is a form of prescriptive linguistics. It is often presented as conservative, as a “protection” of a language…

Abstand and Ausbau Languages means to speak of language settings in which speakers or a portion thereof feel their language to be ‘‘threatened’’ — and…