Dynamics and Languaging: Toward an Ecology of Language

Fowler, Carol A.; Hodges, Bert H.

doi:10.1080/10407413.2011.591254

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“…Importantly, Otsuji & Pennycook (2010:246) add that metrolingualism does not assume connections between language, culture, ethnicity, nationality, or geography, but rather seeks to explore how such relations are produced, resisted, defied, or rearranged; its focus is not on language systems but on how languages can be better described as emerging from contexts of interactional activity. All are united by the premise that ‘language users employ whatever linguistic features are at their disposal to achieve their communicative aims’ (Ag & Jørgensen 2013:528), make meaning in ways that are ‘intentional and creative’ (Fowler & Hodges 2011:147), and do not adhere to essentialised definitions of language.…”

Section: Language Beyond Languages and Mother Tonguementioning

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Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination

Albury

2017

Lang. Soc.

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This article brings the critical turn in linguistics—with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias for languaging—under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with the local-knowledge turn in sociolinguistics that investigates local knowledge and local epistemologies, held by language users themselves, to understand sociolinguistic phenomena. This article analyses whether and how the epistemologies inherent to language, mother tongue, and languaging hold relevance in local metalinguistic talk in Malaysia. Focus group discussions with ethnic Malay, Chinese, and Indian youth reveal that languaging through Bahasa Rojak is already firmly embedded in local epistemologies for communicating across ethnolinguistic divides and fostering interethnic inclusiveness. An essentialised view of language, however, remains vital to any holistic sociolinguistic research in Malaysia in culturally specific ways that do not conflict with languaging. The article therefore supports arguments that we ought not to disregard mother tongues in the interests of critical linguistics. (Critical linguistics, mother tongue, languaging, linguistic culture, Malaysia, folk linguistics)*

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Section: Language Beyond Languages and Mother Tonguementioning

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Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination

Albury

2017

Lang. Soc.

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“…Although analytic philosophy, the generative-linguistic theory, Russian formalists, French structuralists and others have all contributed to language formalisation in recent years, the ecological, process and system approaches to language nature questioned the possibility and effectiveness of such formalisation. For example, ecolinguistics, the distributed language theory, the dynamic and adaptive systems approaches to language, systemic functional linguistics, and cognitive linguistics show that the same language has potentially an infinite variety of meanings and structures and that, by its nature, it is dynamic, interactive, situated, and ecologically / culturally embedded [De Bot, Lowie, Verspoor, 2007;Fowler, Hodges, 2011;Verspoor, De Bot, Lowie, eds, 2011]. As natural languages being developed, distributed, and situated within various systems of activities cannot be completely formalised, the process of translation sui generis is also approximate and constantly developing.…”

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Lost in Machine Translation: Contextual Linguistic Uncertainty

Sukhoverkhov

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Manasidi

et al. 2019

Vestn. Volgogr. gos. univ. Ser. 2 Jazykozn.

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The article considers the issues related to the semantic, grammatical, stylistic and technical difficulties currently present in machine translation and compares its four main approaches: Rule-based (RBMT), Corpora-based (CBMT), Neural (NMT), and Hybrid (HMT). It also examines some "open systems", which allow the correction or augmentation of content by the users themselves ("crowdsourced translation"). The authors of the article, native speakers presenting different countries (Russia, Greece, Malaysia, Japan and Serbia), tested the translation quality of the most representative phrases from the English, Russian, Greek, Malay and Japanese languages by using different machine translation systems: PROMT (RBMT), Yandex. Translate (HMT) and Google Translate (NMT). The test results presented by the authors show low "comprehension level" of semantic, linguistic and pragmatic contexts of translated texts, mistranslations of rare and culture-specific words,unnecessary translation of proper names, as well as a low rate of idiomatic phrase and metaphor recognition. It is argued that the development of machine translation requires incorporation of literal, conceptual, and content-and-contextual forms of meaning processing into text translation expansion of metaphor corpora and contextological dictionaries, and implementation of different types and styles of translation, which take into account gender peculiarities, specific dialects and idiolects of users. The problem of untranslatability ('linguistic relativity') of the concepts, unique to a particular culture, has been reviewed from the perspective of machine translation. It has also been shown, that the translation of booming Internet slang, where national languages merge with English, is almost impossible without human correction.

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“…Motivação: Evidências da influência de fatores como experiência (contato com fala estrangeira): Flege (1995), Fowler;Hodges (2011). 10 ouvintes do GA seriam expostos aos estímulos em áudio e 10 aos em áudio-vídeo e, da mesma forma, procedeu-se com os ouvintes do GP.…”

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Compreensibilidade Em L2: Uma Discussão Sobre O Efeito Da Experiência Do Ouvinte E Do Tipo De Meio Em Excertos Do Português Brasileiro Produzidos Por Um Falante Haitiano

Albuquerque

Alves

2017

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RESUMO:Este trabalho investiga o efeito da experiência (com fala não-nativa) de ouvintes brasileiros, bem como do tipo de meio (áudio ou áudio-vídeo) na compreensibilidade de excertos do Português Brasileiro produzidos por um aprendiz haitiano, do sexo masculino. O estudo foi conduzido com dois grupos de ouvintes brasileiros, com 20 participantes cada, sendo um composto por professores com experiência no ensino de português como língua adicional para haitianos (GP) e, o outro, por graduandos de um curso de Letras Português-Inglês, sem experiência com a fala de haitianos (GA). Entre os resultados estatísticos, testes Two-Way ANOVA intersujeitos demonstraram um efeito principal de experiência, i.e., o GP apresentou um maior índice de compreensibilidade quando comparado com o GA. No entanto, não foi encontrado um efeito principal de tipo de meio, e tampouco se verificou um efeito de interação entre as duas variáveis independentes (experiência e tipo de meio). A partir dos resultados, propõe-se uma reflexão teórico-metodológica sobre o conceito de 'compreensibilidade' de fala estrangeira que o entenda como propriedades compartilhadas entre falante e ouvinte, o que implica assumir que uma fala estrangeira passa por variáveis sociolinguísticas associadas a ambas as partes da interlocução. PALAVRAS-CHAVE:Português como Língua Adicional; Aprendizes haitianos; Compreensibilidade; Experiência; Multimodalidade da fala.ABSTRACT: This study investigates the effect of experience (with non-native spoken speech) of Brazilian listeners, as well as the type of medium (audio or audio-video) in the comprehensibility of Brazilian Portuguese excerpts produced by a male Haitian learner. The study was conducted with 2 groups, with 20 Brazilian listeners in each group, the first composed of experienced PAL (Portuguese as an Additional Language) teachers and the second formed by undergraduate students of both Portuguese-English (Literature and Linguistics) majors, with no experience with Haitians. Among the statistics results, the Two-Way ANOVA for independent samples revealed an effect of experience, i.e., the group of teachers presented higher comprehensibility rates when

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Dynamics and Languaging: Toward an Ecology of Language

Cited by 22 publications

References 22 publications

Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination

Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination

Lost in Machine Translation: Contextual Linguistic Uncertainty

Compreensibilidade Em L2: Uma Discussão Sobre O Efeito Da Experiência Do Ouvinte E Do Tipo De Meio Em Excertos Do Português Brasileiro Produzidos Por Um Falante Haitiano

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