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Arabic Language and Linguistics
Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and …
Telling Stories
Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate …
Little Words
Little Words is an interdisciplinary examination of the functions and change in the use of clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, …
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1999: Language in Our Time
Marking the return - after a two-year hiatus - of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues …
Measured Language
Measured Language: Quantitative Studies of Acquisition, Assessment, and Variation focuses on ways in which various aspects of language can be quantified and how measurement informs …
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1981: Analyzing Discourse
Discourse 2.0
Our everyday lives are increasingly being lived through electronic media, which are changing our interactions and our communications in ways that we are only beginning to …
Variable Properties in Language
This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a …
Diversity and Super-Diversity
Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives …
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1990: Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition
The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism
When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international …
Languages in Africa
People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother …