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CHARLES A. FERGUSON-----Diglossia 1 In many speech communities two or more varieties of the same language2 are used by some speakers under different conditions. Perhaps the most familiar example is the standard language and regional dialect as used, say, in Italian or Persian, where many speakers speak their local dialect at home
- Diglossia: WORD: Vol 15, No 2
Diglossia Charles A. Ferguson Center for Middle Eastern...
- Diglossia: WORD: Vol 15, No 2
Charles A. Ferguson. Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was an American linguist who taught at Stanford University. He was one of the founders of sociolinguistics and is best known for his work on diglossia. The TOEFL test was created under his leadership at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC.
Jun 25, 2012 · Abstract. While the defining cases of diglossia offered in Charles Ferguson's 1959 article have long been useful as vehicles for introducing this important form of societal multilingualism, they are also problematic in that they differ from each other in a number of significant ways.
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Dec 4, 2015 · Diglossia Charles A. Ferguson Center for Middle Eastern StudiesHarvard UniversityCambridge38, Massachusetts Pages 325-340 | Published online: 04 Dec 2015
The bibliography following the body of this paper contains a total of 1,092 entries on the subject of diglossia. Entries dealing with diglossia in the classical sense of Ferguson (1959) and in the sense of functional compartmentalization of distinct languages are represented approximately equally. Scholarly publication in the area of diglossia ...
Jan 11, 2002 · the publication of the late Charles Ferguson’s historic paper on diglossia (Ferguson 1959), a coherent and generally accepted theory of diglossia remains to be formulated.
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DIGLOSSIA REVISITED. by Lachman M. Khubchandani Centre for Communication Studies, Poona. It is nearly thirty-five years since Ferguson introduced the concept of. diglossia in his pioneering study (1959), directing attention towards. understanding the sociocultural setting in which the language functions. The focus.
