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Daniel Cunliffe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Minority Languages and Social Media
    The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities, 2018
    Co-Authors: Daniel Cunliffe
    Abstract:

    Cunliffe provides a detailed overview of the current understanding of the relationship between social media and minority Language maintenance and revitalisation. The chapter begins by discussing digital Language vitality and the role of social media in digital ascent. It then considers the extent to which social media provide permissive environments for minority Language use and the ways in which formal and informal Language policy may serve to enhance or restrict this. A discussion follows on the factors that influence the Language Behaviours of minority Language speakers on social media and the potential impact of social media on the minority Language itself. Recognising the critical role of the social network in shaping Language Behaviour on social media, the chapter then examines approaches aimed at creating social networks between minority Language speakers and concludes by considering geo-spatial analysis of social media data.

  • young bilinguals Language Behaviour in social networking sites the use of welsh on facebook
    Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2013
    Co-Authors: Daniel Cunliffe, Delyth Morris, Cynog Prys
    Abstract:

    Social networking sites feature significantly in the lives of many young people. Where these young people are bilingual, social networking sites may have an important role to play in terms of minority Language use and in shaping perceptions of that Language. Through a quantitative and qualitative study, this paper investigates the use of Language in social networking sites by young Welsh speakers, focussing particularly on Facebook. Language choice and Behaviour, factors influencing that Behaviour, and attitudes towards use of the Welsh Language in Information Technology are explored. The data suggests that there are a number of different factors at play, and that it is necessary to consider Language Behaviour in social networking sites in the context of offline Language Behaviour.

  • Promoting minority-Language use in a bilingual online community
    The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2005
    Co-Authors: Daniel Cunliffe, R. Harries
    Abstract:

    This paper explores the potential for creating online environments for bilingual communities in which minority-Language use is supported and actively encouraged. It discusses the Language Behaviour and attitudes of Welsh–English bilingual users in Pen i Ben, a pilot online community of practice for Head Teachers in Wales. The patterns of Language use and the functional roles served by the Languages are described. Despite the creation of a bilingual environment and the implementation of specific strategies to encourage Welsh use, the trend indicates increasing use of English. However, it is suggested that a wider set of supporting strategies might be successful in maintaining a truly bilingual online community.

Pedro A. Fuertes-olivera - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Henning Bergenholtz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Philip Seargeant - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Language ideology Language theory and the regulation of linguistic Behaviour
    Language Sciences, 2009
    Co-Authors: Philip Seargeant
    Abstract:

    This paper discusses the relationship between entrenched beliefs about Language (‘Language ideologies’) and the linguistic system, and considers how conflicts between propositional and procedural knowledge about Language have an effect upon the way in which Language is regulated within society. It examines the epistemological foundations for drawing a distinction between Language ideology and the linguistic system, and discusses the way in which the conflicting influences of these two aspects of Language Behaviour create the framework by which Language is regulated in both academic and institutional contexts. Drawing upon critical insights provided by theoretical work in linguistic anthropology, and combining these with a philosophical consideration of Language Behaviour, the paper poses the question of whether there is a fundamental interdependency between patterns of entrenched belief about Language and the nature of Language itself. It then examines the implications of such a question for our understanding of the role that Language plays in the lived experience.

Zhanna Reznikova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Language Behaviour in Ants
    Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants, 2016
    Co-Authors: Zhanna Reznikova
    Abstract:

    Experimental evidence of information transmission in ants is considered, from early experimental results to the general experimental paradigm elaborated later in the long-term “binary tree” study. Methodological details are presented, as well as the results of experiments in which ants were confronted with a rather complex life-or-death task: they could obtain food only in a “binary tree” maze by means of distant homing, lacking a possibility to use odour trails. Only scouting ants appeared to be capable of remembering sequences of turns towards the target and sharing this information with members of their constant team of foragers. A new battery of tests revealed characteristic features of scouts, such as intelligence, exploratory activity, bravery without self-sacrifice, high frequency of switching between activities and faithful interest to the variety of stimuli.

  • Do Animal “Languages” Need Translation? The Main Experimental Approaches to Studying Language Behaviour
    Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants, 2016
    Co-Authors: Zhanna Reznikova
    Abstract:

    The main experimental paradigms in animal intelligent communication are considered. (1) Direct decoding of animal signals enabled researchers to obtain exciting results in studying “semantic vocalisation”, wild “syntax” and the role of “cultural traditions” in animal Language Behaviour. However, due to methodological limitations, only two types of natural messages have been decoded up to now. (2) The use of intermediary artificial Languages have revealed astonishing “linguistic potential” in several social and intelligent species. Nevertheless, the complexity of animals’ natural communications remains unclear. (3) The information-theoretic approach is designed to study quantitative characteristics of natural communicative systems by measuring the time duration that animals spend on transmitting messages of definite information content and complexity.

  • Communication, Speech and Language
    Studying Animal Languages Without Translation: An Insight from Ants, 2016
    Co-Authors: Zhanna Reznikova
    Abstract:

    Communication it too broad a concept and speech is too narrow to consider as the form of information transfer in animals. A polymorphous concept of Language is more useful for reasoning about animal communication. I suggest to distinguish between the concepts of “Language” and “Language Behaviour”. The latter concept considers the highest form of animal communication and includes referential signals and means for transferring information about remote events.

  • Dialog with black box: using Information Theory to study animal Language Behaviour
    acta ethologica, 2007
    Co-Authors: Zhanna Reznikova
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    In this review, three main experimental approaches for studying animal Language Behaviour are compared: (1) direct decoding of animals’ communication, (2) the use of intermediary Languages to communicate with animals and (3) application of ideas and methods of the Information Theory for studying quantitative characteristics of animal communication. Each of the three methodological approaches has its specific power and specific limitations. Deciphering animals’ signals reveals a complex picture of natural communication in its evolutionary perspective but only fragmentary because of many methodological barriers, among which low repeatability of standard living situations seems to be a bottleneck. Language-training experiments are of great help for discovering potentials of animal Language Behaviour but leaves characteristics of their natural communications unclear. The use of the methods of Information Theory is based on measuring the time duration that animals spend on transmitting messages of definite information content and complexity. This approach, although does not reveal the nature of animals’ signals, provides a new dimension for studying important characteristics of natural communication systems, which have not been available before. First of all, this approach enables explorers of animals’ Language Behaviour to obtain knowledge just about the ability of subjects for transferring meaningful messages. Besides, the important properties of animal communication and intelligence can be evaluated such as the rate of information transmission, the complexity of transferred information and potential flexibility of communication systems.

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