The functions of еру modal verb «should» in the corpus ice-gb by R. Y. Abbasov

“…Bringing the speaker's age into play seems to suggest that a higher ratio of oblique moods in the speech signifies a free use of language. …”
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La ‘Umma est-elle une communauté linguistique ? by Chahrazed Dahou

“…This term may explain the operational mode of language diglossia within a linguistic community, by questioning the attitudes and representations of its speakers. Here, in an Algerian context by questioning the linguistic attitudes of Algerian speakers. …”
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Report on the Academic Symposium: Youth Quotas − The Answer to Changes in Age Demographics? by Igor Dimitrijoski

“…The indication of these latter speakers was that environmental issues are not the top priority of young people. …”
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A Discourse Analysis of Radio Call ins In Runyankore-Rukiga. by Niwamanya, Diana

“…The translation was then presented to a bilingual speaker of Runyankore–Rukiga and English for verification and discourse analysis of the data. …”
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A comprehensive voice dataset for Hindko digit recognitionMendeley Data by Tanveer Ahmed, Maqbool Khan, Khalil Khan, Ikram Syed, Syed Sajid Ullah

“…The spoken content of Hindko covers a wide range of subjects, including religion, education, poetry, politics, theater, and more. Despite all this, Hindko lacks a voice recognition system that could enhance accessibility, preserve the language, and promote digital inclusion for its speakers. …”
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Data Augmentation For Sorani Kurdish News Headline Classification Using Back-Translation And Deep Learning Model by Soran Badawi

“…Moreover, having a Kurdish news headline classification model can improve access to news and information for Kurdish speakers. With the classification model, they can easily and quickly search for news articles that interest them based on their preferred categories, such as politics, sports, or entertainment. …”
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Toward the Development of Large-Scale Word Embedding for Low-Resourced Language by Shahzad Nazir, Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz Ahmad Sahi, Shahbaz Ahmad, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Muhammad Haris Aziz

“…To perform this task, we used a dataset covering different categories of News such as Business, Sports, Health, Politics, Entertainment, Science, world, and others. …”
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« Ce n’est pas très beau ce que vous avez dit ! » The activation of resonance in French parliamentary debates by Elisabeth Zima, Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts, Paul Sambre

“…Speakers who engage in the joint activity of a conversation tend to align their utterances with those of their interlocutors by reusing, reinterpreting, hence playing with co-present linguistic material. …”
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EFL Teacher Professionalism and Identity: Between Local/Global ELT Tensions by Julio Cesar Torres-Rocha

“… This article of reflection considers socio-political issues such as linguistic imperialism, native speakerism, English as an International language, and appropriate teaching methodologies, which are currently contentious issues in the ELT community. …”
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Accommodating inappropriate language: how students react to the translation of inappropriate language in the classroom by Tracey Simpson

“…Based on experiences in the classroom, this paper examines some of the issues associated with using swearwords for academic exercises and in authentic communication situations. Within societies, politeness and impoliteness are extremely coded and so there is a natural tendency for native speakers to accommodate people and social conventions by not using certain words. …”
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Cultural nuances in pre-request speech acts: a pragmatic analysis of the Minangkabau language by Ike Revita, Oktavianus Oktavianus, Farah Anindya Zalfikhe, Wuri Syaputri

“…The results indicate that Minangkabau speakers often use polished and culturally nuanced politeness strategies, contemplating the community’s commitment to reciprocal respect and social unity. …”
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Langues et discours en situation de guerre : une approche sociolinguistique et pragmatique by Salih Akin

“…The consequences of the war are manifested on the evolution of the language on several levels: a fragmentation in its linguistic structures as well as in its writing systems, a geographical and political dispersion of its speakers and a decline of its intergenerational transmission. …”
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« Qu’es chabat ». Une expérience de la disparition entre présence et rémanence. Situation de l’occitan dans le nord limousin by Jean-Pierre Cavaillé

“…In this analysis, a concept has emerged, that of “remanence”, in order to describe the situation of a language considered by the very people who speak it as dead, moribund or in a state of survival. The speakers are still numerous, but, especially if they belong to the latest generation who inherited it, they almost never find any more opportunities to speak it. …”
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The Use of the Honorific Suffix -si- for Non-human Subjects: An Analysis of Talk-shows by Sang-Seok Yoon

“… The Korean language has a complex honorific system that reflects the social dynamics between speakers, listeners, and referents. Korean honorifics include address terms, sentence endings, honorific words, and the subject honorific suffix -‍si‍-. …”
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El aragonés: historia de una lengua minoritaria y minorizada by Mª Pilar Benítez Marco, Óscar Latas Alegre

“…In fact, the small number of speakers (1.9% of the Aragonese population) and the spaces of use (mainly private and family), together with the lack of intergenerational transmission and institutional support, among other factors, do not favour the survival of the Aragonese language. …”
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Entre política identitaria y narrativas autobiográficas. Restituciones digitales de un proyecto de documentación lingüística en Bolivia (Proyecto DoBeS Yurakaré 2006-2011) by Vincent Hirtzel

“…In addition, this documentation project benefited from the collaboration of three speakers who agreed to record material of an autobiographical nature. …”
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NATIONAL WORLDVIEW IN BILINGUAL COMMUNICATION by V. A. Iovenko

“…The article establishes important types of divergences between Spanish and Russian worldviews which are relevant for translation, for example: abundance in Spanish mass media texts of specific and exotic national idiomatic units, bright stylistic locutions, figurative expressions, syntactic constructions, text structures which, when used in oral and written speech sound weird and unexpected for Russian native speakers. Spaniards often use words from different spheres of life (sports, medicine, warfare, etc) in political communicative situations. …”
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Plurilinguisme, diglossie et minorités : le cas de la Suisse by Claudine Brohy

“…In addition to national and official multilingualism, the country and its language communities have to manage other forms of multilingualism and other language contact situations: various diglossic situations, a Romance minority language – Rumantsch – which is scattered in five varieties, called idioms, and a contested koinè, Rumantsch Grischun, a significant number of immigration languages, and a strong presence of English. The Swiss political system, federalism and direct democracy with (very) strong cantonal and also municipal autonomy, complemented by the subtle interplay between the liberty of language, the principle of territoriality and the principle of personality is considered to represent the guarantee to maintain multilingualism and at the same time the three Romance minority languages, which vary in terms of numbers of speakers and status. …”
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Le couloir ouest-saharien : un espace gradué by Claire Cécile Mitatre

“…Yet, the use of this term with “quasi-ethnic connotations” by Arabic speakers of Moorish culture on Moroccan territory cannot be reduced to a strictly political issue. …”
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Policy-focused Stance Detection in Parliamentary Debate Speeches by Gavin Abercrombie, Riza Batista-Navarro

“…We propose the novel task of policy-focused stance detection, in which both the policy proposals under debate and the position of the speakers towards those proposals are identified. We adapt a previously existing dataset to include manual annotations of policy preferences, an established schema from political science.  …”
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