Transdisciplinary Approach to Linguistic Diversity

Rahal, Aicha

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch026

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“…At the same time, the essence of social networks is in the very process of information exchange and in how this information affects people. Discourse displays the real world in its diversity [20].…”

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“…A sample of tweets analysed within the current research showed dynamic representativeness. A growing body of literature related to the topic under investigation [10,20,29] underlines the need to expand knowledge about the pandemic using a purely linguistic perspective. For this reason, the current research used methods that allow extracting linguistic features from tweets related to Covid-19 and response to the global crisis [21,22,30].…”

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Axiology of Covid-19 as a linguistic phenomenon

Atabekova

Lutskovskaia

Kalashnikova

2022

Journal of Information Science

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This work’s aim was to investigate what verbal means are used by English-speaking Twitter accounts to describe the pandemic while focusing on extralinguistic factors that are the primary catalysts for linguistic transformations in society. A critical discourse analysis of the lexeme ‘Covid-19’ and words accompanying it was applied. A total of 1736 English-language tweets (6844 lexical units) posted during March to April 2020 were selected for the analysis. Functional discourse analysis allowed systematising and commenting on sampling results as well as provided the opportunity to make the following conclusions. In tweets, the lexeme ‘Covid-19’ is combined not only with the actual name of the virus. This lexeme became a productive ground for derivation into various linguistic structures: substantive word combinations, abbreviations, neologisms and anthropomorphic metaphors. The research results application in international practice will allow linguists to interpret neologisms that emerged as a result of the pandemic and foster the understanding of axiological indicators of native speakers.

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Axiology of Covid-19 as a linguistic phenomenon

Atabekova

Lutskovskaia

Kalashnikova

2022

Journal of Information Science

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“…English is no longer seen as monolingual but rather a multilingual language. Rahal (2018Rahal ( , 2019 argues for the multilingual aspect of English, stating that English has become plural due to the emergence of local varieties.…”

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“…This paper focuses on language education policy in the context of global English because it is considered one of the influential factors in the gap between English lingua franca reality and English as a native language. First, it gives a brief overview of the recent situation with regard to English and shows the recent reality of multilingual English and its multifarious aspect (Rahal, 2018(Rahal, & 2019. It also discusses the conceptual gap in language education policy.…”

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Rethinking Language Education policy in the Context of Multilingual/ Multicultural English

Rahal¹

2021

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Globalization has brought about a phenomenal spread of English. This spread has led to the emergence of the newborn varieties which has created serious challenges to language teaching pedagogy and language education policy. Bangbose (2003) has clearly pointed to this issue, stating “as researchers in world Englishes, we cannot consider our job done if we turn a blind eye to the problems of educational failure or unfavorable language policy outcomes” (as cited in the Council of Europe, 2007, p. 31). It seems that there is a mismatch between the advances that happened in the field of applied linguistics and language education policy. This paper focuses on language education policy in the context of global English because it is considered one of the influential factors in the gap between English lingua franca reality and English as a native language. First, it gives a brief overview of the recent situation with regard to English and shows the recent reality of multilingual English and its multifarious aspect (Rahal, 2018 & 2019). It also discusses the conceptual gap in language education policy. It points to the conceptual gap between the sociolinguistic reality of English and the language education policy that is still oriented towards English as a native language. Then, the paper points to the need for a language policy that includes linguistic diversity.

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“…First, I will give a brief overview of the recent situation with regard to English. I will show the recent reality of multilingual English and its multifarious aspect (Rahal, 2018(Rahal, & 2019. Then, I will define language policy.…”

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Georgian Online Exercises for the Foreign Students − the principles of construction

Zekalashvili¹

2021

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Difficulties in the Georgian language learning are conditioned by the complexities of the language itself and by its otherness in comparison with the European languages. After the reading and writing skills are obtained, the complexities of the Georgian grammar remain to seem impossible to overcome multiple diversifications of the forms of the parts of speech, abundance of affixes, polypersonality of verbs – all those factors originate several problems for the foreign learners. It is already several years that the program “Irbakhi” has been working on in the Ministry of education and science of Georgia (prof. Marika Odzeli − the author and coordinator of the program), website www.geofl.ge is created and is provided by the learning and methodological material, containing manuals, working sheets, reading material, methodological papers, reference material in grammar, grammar guide books and all the materials correspond to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). Learning a foreign language only from the manuals is not easy. As time passes, the distance learning methods and exercises are being worked on throughout the world and correspondingly, the abilities to fulfill independently several grammar exercises are also growing. In response to this, on the given stage, within the “Irbakhi” program, a number of the online grammar exercises were compiled containing learning activities for the several stages such as: listening, writing, reading, lexis and grammar. There are several types of the useful exercises, whenever it is necessary for the learners, listening to some words, phrases and texts is also available which helps to fulfill the grammar exercises. The grammar exercises are based on the basic dictionary and abstracts of the literature texts, the fundamental issues of which are given in the text books, work books and reading material. The online grammar exercises represent the convenient additional learning material. When compiling them, we had to solve some problems: choosing the essential problems and systematizing them by the levels, using vocabulary as the base, creating systemic menu and using large varieties of the exercises themselves. The drop-down menu shows the Georgian grammar system through its morphology and syntax (i.e. parts of speech, grammatical categories and others). The issues related to the verbs are especially diverse, including person, number, mood, conjugation forms, preverb, special types of conjugation and so on. Some types of the grammar exercises are used: marking the correct answer out of 3 or 4 given; inserting a right answer into the right space of the table or scheme, also the type of exercise as drag and drop, choose the proper words or the endings in the given full texts. The exercises are simple in use, oriented on practical knowledge, self-checking and improving the level of knowledge.

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Transdisciplinary Approach to Linguistic Diversity

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Axiology of Covid-19 as a linguistic phenomenon

Axiology of Covid-19 as a linguistic phenomenon

Rethinking Language Education policy in the Context of Multilingual/ Multicultural English

Georgian Online Exercises for the Foreign Students − the principles of construction

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