English across cultures: adapting to new realities

As a complex adaptive system language coevolves with its environment changing to maintain language/environment equilibrium is indispensable for its effective functioning. Fundamental environmental changes trigger the equilibrium punctuation (Dixon, 1997) which is exhibited in language functional de...

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Main Author: Valentyna Skybina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2006-04-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7271
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