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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Singh, Charanjit; Singh, Sukhdev – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013
In this article the authors present a discussion on the genre of editorial as distinct from that of news-reports in that its language is more loaded with attitudes and more indeterminate and hedged than that in the genre of news-report. Another distinctiveness the authors point out is that the genre of editorial is not only concerned with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Editing, News Reporting, Contrastive Linguistics
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Singh, Sukhdev; Bedi, Navkiran Kaur – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Every text has a communicative purpose that it performs by dividing itself into generic stages. These stages are assigned specific goals and have differing linguistic structures. This paper makes an attempt to investigate whether there is a definable co-relation between linguistic features and stages in the genre of look-good advertisements. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation
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Singh, Sukhdev – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006
The issue of language attitudes has become important in view of the regular formation and growth of multi-lingual societies. The individuals are under constant pressure to learn more than one language because of pragmatic/cultural/political reasons. The languages in such situations compete and often generate linguistic controversies about the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Sociolinguistics, Official Languages, Multilingualism