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50 Years of ERIC
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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Sultana, Shaila; Dovchin, Sender; Pennycook, Alastair – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
The paper explores the use of varied semiotic resources in the linguistic, social and cultural practices of young adults in the context of Bangladesh and Mongolia. Based on a translinguistic analysis (including pre-textual history, contextual relations, sub-textual meaning, intertextual echoes and post-textual interpretation) of these practices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semiotics, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
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Otsuji, Emi; Pennycook, Alastair – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
By extending the notion of metroethnicity, this paper proposes the notion of metrolingualism, creative linguistic practices across borders of culture, history and politics. Metrolingualism gives us a way to move beyond current terms such as "multilingualism" and "multiculturalism". It is a product of modern and often urban interaction, describing…
Descriptors: Urban Language, Linguistics, Interaction, Bilingualism