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    Introduction: Postcolonial realms of memory in the francophone world
    Lewis, J ; Wimbush, A (Liverpool University Press, 2016-01-06)
    In September 2020, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced plans to unveil a statute of Solitude, a former slave who fought against the French reinstatement of slavery in Guadeloupe in 1802. Solitude was arrested during the revolt, sentenced to death, and hanged. The inauguration of a statue in her memory would constitute the first statue of a black woman to be put up in the French capital.
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    The AICCM Bulletin, Volume 37.1 Editorial
    Tse, N (Informa UK Limited, 2016-01-02)
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    «Дом для Кузьки». Анимация в обучении русскому языку детей-билингвов 6–7 лет (развивающий урок)
    Kabiak, N ; Koudrjavtseva, E (Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, 2014)
    The following article deals with the method of employing animated cartoon at preschool and primary school level for teaching Russian language and culture to bilingual children. An example of a developmental lesson for children of 6–7 years of age based on the animated cartoon “A house for Kuzka” is presented here.
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    Советские кинофильмы на уроке РКИ: комедия Л. Гайдая «Иван Васильевич меняет профессию»
    Kabiak, N (Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, 2018)
    The author of the article argues the necessity of Soviet feature film usage at Russian as a foreign language classroom. A teaching material for instructors is presented based on L. Gaidai´s comedy Ivan Vasilievich changes profession.
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    Three readings of M.Bulgakov's play 'Ivan Vasilievich'
    Kabiak, N (Sokolova M.V., 2016)
    This article considers three readings of Bulgakov’s play ‘Ivan Vasilievich’. The first occurred in 1930s when the play was banned by Soviet censors. At that time, it would have contained much symbolism and meaning for the readers, who, like those in the play, were trapped in an oppressive dictatorship. A second reading – an interpretation of ‘Ivan Vasilievich’ occurred when the comedy ‘Ivan Vasilievich changes profession’ – based on Bulgakov’s play was filmed by the Soviet director Leonid Gaidai in 1973. Through this reading symbols and allusions drawn by Bulgakov became known to millions of Soviet citizens. A third reading considers the contemporary Russian language speaker, who today quotes Bulgakov’s and Gaidai’s lines from ‘Ivan Vasilievich’ and its’ adaptation in day-to-day life. This article will hereafter refer to these phrases as ‘winged phrases’ – they have taken flight from their original source and embedded themselves in vernacular speech.
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    Prosodically Conditioned Consonant Duration in Djambarrpuyŋu.
    Jepson, K ; Fletcher, J ; Stoakes, H (SAGE Publications, 2019-03-01)
    Cross-linguistically, segments typically lengthen because of proximity to prosodic events such as intonational phrase or phonological phrase boundaries, a phrasal accent, or due to lexical stress. Australian Indigenous languages have been claimed to operate somewhat differently in terms of prosodically conditioned consonant lengthening and strengthening. Consonants have been found to lengthen after a vowel bearing a phrasal pitch accent. It is further claimed that this post-tonic position is a position of prosodic strength in Australian languages. In this study, we investigate the effects of proximity to a phrasal pitch accent and prosodic constituent boundaries on the duration of stop and nasal consonants in words of varying lengths in Djambarrpuyŋu, an Australian Indigenous language spoken in northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Our results suggest that the post-tonic consonant position does not condition longer consonant duration compared with other word-medial consonants, with one exception: Intervocalic post-tonic consonants in disyllabic words are significantly longer than word-medial consonants elsewhere. Therefore, it appears that polysyllabic shortening has a strong effect on segment duration in these data. Word-initial position did not condition longer consonant duration than word-medial position. Further, initial consonants in higher-level prosodic domains had shorter consonant duration compared with domain-medial word-initial consonants. By contrast, domain-final lengthening was observed in our data, with word-final nasals preceding a pause found to be significantly longer than all other consonants. Taken together, these findings for Djambarrpuyŋu suggest that, unlike other Australian languages, post-tonic lengthening is not a cue to prosodic prominence, whereas prosodic domain-initial and -final duration patterns of consonants are like those that have been observed in other languages of the world.
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    Embodying kin-based respect in speech, sign, and gesture
    Green, J (John Benjamins Publishing, 2019-12)
    In Australian Indigenous societies the means for demonstrating kinship-based respect are rich and varied, and mastery of their ideological and contextual dimensions is highly valued and an indication of communicative expertise. Special speech registers, sometimes referred to as ‘mother-in-law’, ‘brother-in-law’, or ‘avoidance’ languages, are one aspect of this complexity. Another dimension of respect is afforded by Australian Indigenous sign languages, used in contexts where speech itself is disallowed as well as in everyday interactions where signing is practical and useful. What is lacking from the majority of accounts of these special semiotic repertoires is an investigation of the ways that speech and communicative actions, such as sign or gesture, may work together in such contexts. Also neglected is the possibility that the articulation of signs and gestures may be modified to indicate a respectful stance towards avoided kin. Drawing on both archival sources and recent fieldwork, this paper delineates some of the articulatory dimensions of signs and gestures used in this domain.
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    The instructed learning of form-function mappings in the English article system
    Zhao, H ; MacWhinney, B (Wiley, 2018)
    This article analyzes the instructed learning of the English article system by second language (L2) learners. The Competition Model (MacWhinney, 1987, 2012) was adopted as the theoretical framework for analyzing the cues to article usage and for designing effective computer‐based article instruction. Study 1 found that article cues followed a Zipfian distribution for availability or frequency and that the cues had overall high reliabilities. Study 2 assessed the initial level of cue reliance in a group of intermediate–advanced L2 learners. As expected, the input variables of cue availability and cue reliability clearly influenced both the accuracy of learners’ choices in a cloze test format and the subjects’ response times. Study 3 demonstrated that the form–function mappings relevant for native‐like article choice can be taught in two 1‐hour sessions using the strategy of cue focusing . The type of explicit instruction (analogical, i.e., by giving analogous examples without metalinguistic comments, vs. metalinguistic feedback) had an additional effect on response time, while both instruction types led to a similar increase in accuracy. These findings are novel and are highly relevant to both theory and pedagogy.
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    The attitudes of recently-arrived Polish migrants to Irish English
    Diskin, C ; Regan, V (Wiley, 2017-06-01)
    ABSTRACT This article presents a case study of six Polish migrants residing in Dublin, Ireland and examines their language ideologies through an analysis of the metalinguistic discourse surrounding Irish English, world Englishes, and notions of ‘standardness’ that arose in the course of six extended interviews in 2012. Adapting Bucholtz and Hall's concept of markedness or ‘hierarchical structuring of difference’, this study structures the migrants’ views towards world Englishes as operating along two axes of markedness and desirability. Overall, the migrants exhibit three broadly differing views of Irish English: positive, negative and ambivalent, and at times explicitly articulate their views in comparison with those of traditional Inner Circle varieties, such as British and American English.
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