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  • 11language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… …

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  • 12study — stud|y1 W3S3 [ˈstʌdi] n plural studies ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(research)¦ 2¦(learning)¦ 3¦(subject)¦ 4 somebody s studies 5¦(careful consideration)¦ 6¦(room)¦ 7¦(art)¦ 8¦(music)¦ 9 be a stu …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 13Language ideology — In sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, a language or linguistic ideology is a systematic construct about how languages carry or are invested with certain moral, social, and political values, giving rise to implicit assumptions that… …

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  • 14language — lan|guage [ læŋgwıdʒ ] noun *** 1. ) uncount the method of human communication using spoken or written words: Linguistics is the study of language and how people use it. language skills (=the ability to use a language, especially a foreign… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 15language */*/*/ — UK [ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ] / US noun Word forms language : singular language plural languages Metaphor: Language and words are like food, and the emotions that words express are like flavours. It took me a long time to digest the news. ♦ The technical name… …

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  • 16language — lan•guage [[t]ˈlæŋ gwɪdʒ[/t]] n. 1) ling. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the French language[/ex] 2) ling. a)… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 17language — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French langage, from lange, langue tongue, language, from Latin lingua more at tongue Date: 14th century 1. a. the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a… …

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  • 18Language education — Language Teaching redirects here. For the journal, see Language Teaching (journal). Linguistics …

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  • 19Language documentation — is the process by which a language is documented from a documentary linguistics perspective. It aims to “to provide a comprehensive record of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given speech community” (Himmelmann 1998:166, see also… …

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  • 20Study of the Hebrew language — has an ancient history. Since Hebrew is the original language of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Torah and Tanakh), it is therefore a language that has always been central to Judaism and valued by the Jewish people for over three thousand years,… …

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