English across cultures: adapting to new realities 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 funct...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2008-04-01
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Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
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Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7271 |