Aug 2026· Linguistik Indonesia· 0 citations· 18 references
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Before the late nineteenth century, linguistic research relied heavily on dictionaries, but by the end of the century two European scholars, G. Wenker and J. Gillieron, revolutionized linguistic methodology with two very different approaches to data collection in Europe. One hundred years later, just a few years before the founding of Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia, two other European linguists, G. Diffloth and B. Nothofer, began their fieldwork projects in Island Southeast Asia. Their methodologies—connected yet differing in some details—have been explained in print and online sources. This essay focuses on linguistic fieldwork and research methodology based on empirical and inductive principles by reviewing the methods of Diffloth and Nothofer and comparing their approaches to those procedures used in a few recent linguistic studies of local languages in Malaysia and Indonesia. The underlying importance of studying the social history and the geography of the language communities involved in research projects as well as the need for cooperative interaction between researchers and language informants are the only basis for credible linguistic analysis. As hundreds of regional languages in Southeast Asia are threatened with obsolescence, linguists must not only document these languages but explore modes of cooperation with communities seeking to maintain their heritage languages from generation to generation. Computer programs such as ELAN can be used not only to document endangered languages but to revitalize them as well. As linguists, we need to rethink our procedures and enhance our interactions with the language communities of these islands.
The aim of the work is to analyze the shifts in the Chinese linguistic worldview caused by recent globalization processes. Using the method of corpus data analysis and reference to lexicographic sources, the lexemes 家庭 jiātíng ‘family, home’, 个人 gèrén ‘personality’/个性 gèxìng ‘individuality’ and 自由 zìyóu ‘freedom’ were investigated in more than 700 contexts. As a result, a table of the nominative density of the declared lexical units was obtained, allowing to compare linguistic changes with extralinguistic factors. The data of the study demonstrate, on the one hand, the tendencies to preserve local cultural values while simultaneously testing some ideas of Western civilization. So, one might conclude that the Chinese are beginning to adopt, at least verbally, the concepts of “freedom” and “individuality” as they exist in the West, or at least the verbal behavior in which they are expressed. Considering the leading role of the Chinese party and its adoption of advisory initiatives to preserve and promote traditional culture, it can be said that despite all the socio-economic changes, it is unlikely that globalization will lead to fundamental changes in the very foundations of Chinese culture.
K. Naumova· Proceedings of the 5th Inter...· 0 citations
Abstract:This essay starts an engagement between recent streams of scholarship in linguistics and the study of Mainland Southeast Asia. Language is crucial to the study of Southeast Asia, although it tends to be neglected as fewer people learn local languages, and earlier philological approaches have fallen out of favor. The study of language can reveal aspects of the past and the present through the sounds, syntax, and vocabularies of the region. Linguistic scholarship often does not communicate in ways that let scholars of other disciplines make use of its insights, despite so much scholarship having great potential to contribute to the study of Southeast Asia, such as the work on contact linguistics and multilingualism. Our focus is on the "Greater Burma Zone," an area of linguistic, cultural, religious, and political contact and interaction that has existed probably since the middle of the first millennium AD. This concept rescues the study of the western Mainland and environs from Burma/Myanmar, which some non-majority groups in the region object to, or whose nationalist discourses seek distance from the modern country and its realities. Our conception also loosens the grip of the present and allows a view of an understudied and undertheorized region of Southeast Asia in greater historical depth. Each essay in this special issue may have a narrow focus on a particular language and place but lead to a wider consideration of the usefulness of language as a way to understand Southeast Asia.
Patrick McCormick· Journal of Burma Studies· 0 citations
Corpus linguistics (CL) has been the most effective method of linguistic research in the past few decades; it gives the real language data and quantitative evidence. The integration of corpus linguistics into onomastic studies has opened the door for studying structural, semantic, pragmatic and functional properties of proper names in different kinds of language. The study examines how large electronic corpora can be used to study the frequency, distribution, collocational patterns and context-specific use of anthroponyms, toponyms, ethnonyms and other types of proper names. Corpus-based approaches allow researchers to study naming trends, language variation and semantic changes across different periods and sociocultural contexts. Moreover, corpus tools contribute to identifying the repetitive patterns of proper names and also provide data for lexicographic and linguistic analysis. We focus particularly on corpus linguistics in the context of contemporary onomastic research in literature, media and historical documents. We also review some of the work of famous scholars who point out the importance of corpus linguistics in the context of communicating and cultural aspects of proper names. We find that corpus linguistics not only enhances the accuracy and objectivity of onomastic studies; but it also contributes in a more nuanced way to the discourse about language, culture and identity. Therefore, corpus-based onomastic analysis is an interesting direction for linguistic research and interdisciplinary work.
Zahriddin Xaitqulov, Abror Shaymardanov· Ijtimoiy-gumanitar sohada il...· 0 citations
This descriptive-exploratory-reflexive study investigated the dominant issues related to English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in the Southeast Asian context and drew the critical implicatures from the intra/transnational ELF demographics of the current status quo. Guided by the Kachru’s Circles Model, the Schneider’s Dynamic Model and the critical World Englishes (WE) perspectives, the study explored on the impact of ELF on linguistic identity and the related notions of ethnicity, culture, multilingualism, diglossia, mutual intelligibility, and acceptability. To achieve this goal, content analysis was carried out on the WE-SEA literatures and studies. A checklist on content analysis sampling strategy (CASS) facilitated the selection of the texts. The reflexive approach’s introspection and retrospection modes were employed to enrich the research discourse. The study’s most significant finding revealed the challenging yet encouraging linguistic terrain of ELF in Southeast Asia, with the exponential growth of speech and discourse communities of English, the region seeing the emergence of the New Englishes. Given the complex dynamics of language teaching, ideological influences, and power play, the study recommends continuous scholarship and investigations on ELF and the relevant linguistic developments in Southeast Asia, to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.
Chester B. Esnara· Research Journal in Advanced...· 0 citations
Languages are permanently expanding their vocabulary with new
words, which is an inevitable and constant process. The new words can be
produced by the means of one language, borrowed from a foreign language, or
created as a combination of one’s language means and borrowed elements.
These novel words appear for the first time mainly in the journalistic articles,
and then, depending on many factors, either spread into the general lexicon, or
remain a part of a specialized language. The research question relates to the
personal name-based neologisms in the Macedonian journalistic discourse
aiming to reveal the most frequent word formation devices journalists use
when creating such neologisms in their text. Thus, 2000 online news articles,
informative and opinion based, are selected by using personal name-based
neologisms as key words on Google Search. They serve as a sample, which is
purposeful and cohesive. The data analysis rests upon the general qualitative
inductive method and is enriched by the coding, i.e. organizational boxes are
established in which the data are sorted for further analysis. The research
results showcase that Macedonian journalistic discourse contains personal
name-based neologisms which support the view that they are a common
phenomenon in many modern languages. Further, the findings reveal that the
suffixation is the most frequent language means used by journalists when
generating personal name-based neologisms which reinforces previously
stated outcomes. Furthermore, from the results it is obvious that the new
personal name-based words are created with prefixes and that there are new
compounds as well. In addition, these answers unveil that the personal namebased neologisms assist in achieving stylistic expression of the journalists’ text.
Violeta Janusheva· Folia linguistica et littera...· 0 citations
A bibliometric analysis of English-language, Scopus-indexed scholarship on cultural bias and ethical concerns in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven communication, covering 1,919 documents published between 2015 and 2025, suggests exponential growth in scholarly output, particularly from 2023 onward.
V. Muriira, Venoth Nallisamy, J. Gikonyo et al.· 0 citations
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