...Web 1.0/Web 2.0 .
The terms Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 are typically used to compare different stages in the development of the World Wide Web (invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee). As the numbers suggest, Web 1.0 is used to refer to the first stage in the development of the web, whereas Web 2.0 (a term coined in 1999 ) denotes a later stage, which became prominent in the mid-2000s. At the heart of the comparison between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is a perceived shift with respect to the web’s interactivity. Web 1.0 is seen as a read-only, comparatively...
A family of the Great Plains in the United States.LANGUAGE LISTArikara: also called Arikari, Arikaris, Arikaree, Ree, Ris. 20 speakers remain in USA. Ethnic population: 3,000 as of 1997. On ...
An isolated group native to southernmost Chile and the adjacent part of Argentina.LANGUAGE LISTKakauhua: also called Kaukaue, Cacahue. Formerly spoken in Chile.Qawasqar: also called Kaweskar, ...
A branch of the Oto-Manguean family. They are spoken in Oaxaca state, Mexico.LANGUAGE LISTChinanteco, Chiltepec: 1,000 speakers in Oaxaca, San José Chiltepec. 76% intelligibility of Tlacoatzintepec ...
In the late 20th century, interest in language origins, once a speculative enterprise of questionable value, became a subject widely discussed by prominent scholars. Much of this reversal of interest ...
The phrase “word and paradigm” refers to a model of morphology that was usual in the Western tradition until the development of morphemics in the mid-20th century. Since 1960 it ...
A group spoken mainly in western Cameroon and also Nigeria; they constitute a branch of South Bantoid.LANGUAGE LISTAghem: also called Wum, Yum. 20,000 speakers in Cameroon in and around Wum ...
(1938–1999). One of the major figures in linguistics in the last half of the 20th century, worked in semantics, logic, syntax, phonology, and metatheory.He studied music and mathematics at ...
A language family of northern Argentina; of the two known members of the family, Lule is extinct.LANGUAGE LISTVilela: 20 speakers in Resistencia, east central Chaco Province near Paraguay border. ...
A branch of the proposed Australian language family; they are spoken in the northern part of Western Australia.LANGUAGE LISTBardi: also called Bard, Baadi, Badi. 20 speakers remain. Formerly spoken ...
A branch of the Pama-Nyungan family spoken in Queensland, Australia.LANGUAGE LISTBidyara: also called Bidjara, Bitjara, Bithara. 20 speakers remain. Formerly spoken between Tambo and Augathella, ...
Spoken in the north of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of East Papua, they constitute a branch of Western Oceanic.LANGUAGE LISTAdzera: also called Azera, Atzera, Acira. 20,675 speakers ...
The big picture the situation as a whole.every picture tells a story proverbial saying, early 20th century; in Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë had written for the child Jane, ‘The letter-press…I ...
Ancient writers, beginning with Aristotle, identify three genres of rhetorical discourse: symbouleutic, dicanic, and epideictic (cf. e.g., Aristotle Rhetoric 1358a36–58b20; Rhetorica ad Alexandrum ...
One of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria, with roughly 17 to 20 million Igbos concentrated in the southeastern part of the country.Belonging to the Kwa subgroup of the ...
A North Indian Indo-Āryan vernacular which, in its medieval dialects, was the medium of much bhakti literature, such as the works of Kabīr, Mīrābaī, and Tulsīdās(a). In the 20th century, Hindi—a ...
The mental use of words or language without physical articulation of speech sounds. See also phonological loop.
The study of language in relation to social contexts, social relationships, and cultural factors (such as class, gender, and ethnicity). See also accommodation; code-switching; communicative ...
[Ge]A term borrowed from art history and used in archaeology to refer to groups of distinctive decorative motifs.
(Greek, statement, principle, law, reason, proportion)In Heraclitus, the cosmic principle that gives order and rationality to the world, in a way analogous to that in which human reason orders human ...
