10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOGLOT»
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monoglot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
monoglot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
This pattern of categorization, in which subjects are placed 'in' or 'outside'
normalcy depending on how 'normal' their language repertoire is, belongs to
what Silverstein calls a 'monoglot ideology'. A monoglot ideology makes time and
space ...
2
Linguistic Minorities, Society, and Territory
There were no monoglot speakers of Breton; the last seem to have died about
1970 and were all women. The monoglot French over 40 were all incomers while
the Breton-speaking included three — the children of temporary emigrants —
born ...
3
Bilingualism: Basic Principles
Sociolinguistic investigations into the relationship between style-shift and
degrees of formality in the speech of monoglots have revealed the non-
monolithic nature of monoglot output which has many parallelisms with cross-
language, ...
Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, 1986
4
English in Wales: Diversity, Conflict, and Change
elderly Welsh speakers, especially amongst monoglots, a characteristic early
warning sign of the demise of the minority monoglot population. However, the
overwhelming concentration of Welsh speakers within predominantly rural areas
...
Nikolas Coupland, Alan Richard Thomas, 1990
Such a specification enables a bilingual speaker in the source and target
languages to provide the required information for a monoglot in the target
language. The need for talking about senses or meanings as abstract objects
arises if we ...
6
Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration
monolingual habitus 'is the basic and deep-seated obsession that
monolingualism in a society, and particularly in schools, is the one and only,
overall, forever and always valid normality' (Gogolin, 1998: 159). Similar to the
notion of monoglot ...
7
How to Sound Clever: Master the 600 English Words You ...
monoglot. miasma. (noun) = an atmosphere that has been polluted from the
Greek miama: a stain (especially due to a murder) e.g. During the Second World
War, Jews in Germany lived their lives in a miasma of fear and suspicion ...
Hubert van den Bergh, 2010
8
The Death of the Irish Language
English, i.e. the monoglot Irish, as an indicator of the relative strength and
durability of the language. There were only eleven baronies of the 333 in Ireland
(baronies averaged near ten in each county and were the basic unit for which ...
9
Language Ideological Debates
Language was essentialized as "political otherness", then transformed into a
political statement indicating the refusal to accept American "normalcy", and then
confronted to the monolithical ideology of monoglot standard. Collins identifies
the ...
10
Collective and Individual Bilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Study
Many teats of general mental ability and school subjects have shown the
bilinguals to be below their monoglot counterparts (261;100). Nevertheless these
tests were and are not conclusive because many other factors than bilingualism
have ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOGLOT»
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monoglot is used in the context of the following news items.
Poetry Column: Zona Nouă — Report on Some Young European …
... the visit is the insane privilege of being an English-language writer (especially if like me you're a monoglot). Obviously this is something I was ... «The Quietus, Jul 15»
theartsdesk in Aix-en-Provence: Let's make a Euro-opera
“After all, it's the most exciting aspect of opera as opposed to more monoglot and possibly more monocultural fields you could be working in,“ ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
Western Mail Letters: Tuesday, 30 June, 2015
Should their oral Welsh skills be limited at best, or indeed, virtually non-existent at worst, these pupils would remain essentially monoglot ... «WalesOnline, Jun 15»
Gary Speed laid foundations for Wales' rise under Chris Coleman …
Players were given Welsh and phonetic versions to help the team's monoglot English speakers get their tongues round the words. Roger said ... «WalesOnline, Jun 15»
Western Mail Letters: Thursday, 25 June, 2015
The answers are simple, immigration of monoglot English- speakers to the industrial areas, deliberate central government policy not to teach ... «WalesOnline, Jun 15»
UK population reaches record 64.6m
Are they monoglot increases or Migrant ? Shut the damned door. Are they monoglot increases or Migrant ? Shut the damned door. Mervyn ... «Bromsgrove Advertiser, Jun 15»
Found in translation: Successful Portuguese start-up
... hit upon the idea after hearing the complaints of friends in Portugal struggling to rent out vacation homes to monoglot Germans and Swedes. «Politico, Jun 15»
Did Charles Murray Write the Wrong Book?
He rented a big house of mine in order to give the monoglot Chinese workers in one of his businesses he owns a long weekend in the country ... «American Thinker, Jun 15»
Review: Catrin Finch - Tides, Theatr Mwldan, Aberteifi
... in 1965, of a reservoir which forced the people of Capel Celyn, one of the last monoglot Welsh-speaking villages, to move out of their valley. «Daily Post North Wales, May 15»
EU geo-blocking: Ansip's crusade liable to disappear through …
The USA is a monoglot market with a dominant single language, English. Producers of cultural goods and services in the USA have less ... «The Register, May 15»
