The underlying research question is what degree of linguistic awareness of the linguistics metalanguage resides in the minds of future EFL professionals.
The creation of pidgins involves some degree of linguistic consciousness on the part of their first users.
"In 1977, shortly after the separatist Parti Québécois, then in office, brought in the French Language Charter, we were subjected to a degree of linguistic cleansing," he wrote in one of his frequent journalistic contributions to magazines.
Eliot warned that the poet-critic is always trying to defend his own output, and Raine, naturally, pounces on writers lacking his own high degree of linguistic resolution and independence.
Sanskrit, the classic language of India, underwent a process of systematization and grammatical refinement at an early date, rendering it unique among Indo-Aryan languages in its degree of linguistic cultivation.
Evidence from the conventionalized medium of advertising catalogs shows that degree of linguistic sophistication in these texts correlates less with the content being advertised than with its location along a glamour-utilitarianism continuum.
At its core, the problem is this: if it is the speaker's intentions that determine the meaning of a particular sort of term, then what prevents the speaker from using that term in a highly unexpected manner, one that intuitively strikes us as betraying a significant degree of linguistic incompetence?
This indicates a very high degree of linguistic attraction within a population among both Finnish and Swedish speakers, and a higher degree of intermarriage and genetic relatedness among the Swedish-speaking cluster (Core-SLCC-a), as reflected in the frequency of triangles.
An ontological model of spatial data allows to incorporate the degree of linguistic consensus around a concept, which is also very useful with reference to the problem of interoperability and sharing of knowledge, as it allows to overcome, at least potentially some problems of ambiguity of the terms used.
Table 1 shows the results of three models used to explore the relationships between typological features, and measures of population, geographic spread, and degree of linguistic contact.
