We live in uncertain times in an uncertain world. While large-scale efforts exist to end
poverty, promote peace, share wealth, and protect the planet, we are witnessing serious …

Code-mixing with a dominant language can appeal to members of linguistic minorities
because it signals bilingual proficiency, modernity, and social mobility. However, it can also …

This article reports on a study whose aim was to analyze the relation between the level of
declarative purism and the preference for a particular loanword adaptation technique …

Attitudes toward the global spread of English have been one of the major issues in research
on the development of world Englishes. Because language attitudes construct an invisible …

The present study investigates the role of borrowing in specialised language and the
connection of this crosslinguistically common phenomenon with the attitude of language …

The rapid digitization of communication in the last decade, especially in social networking
spaces, has contributed to radical changes in the virtual language environment in Sri Lanka …

Lingwistyka kontaktu w swej ponadstuletniej historii chętnie czerpała z różnych modeli
teoretycznych i metodologii badawczych, np. z gramatyki uniwersalnej Noama …

Arabic and Persian loanwords in Turkish, once targeted for replacement by 'pure'Turkish
equivalents during the early 20th-century language reform, have been promoted by the …

This paper examines the relation between linguistic purism, standardization, and vitality,
arguing that linguistic purism warrants renewed emphasis as a necessary heuristic for …

Italy counts approximately 12 minority groups within its territory. Among these are the Ladins
located in the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano. This thesis is the first known …