English in Southeast Asia [[electronic resource] ] : features, policy and language in use / / edited by Ee-Ling Low, Azirah Hashim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465478303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-42491-6; 9786613424914; 90-272-8183-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Collana: Varieties of English around the world (VEAW) ; ; v. G42
• Altri autori (Persone): LowEe Ling; Azirah Hashim
• Disciplina: 427/.959
• Soggetti: English language - Variation - Southeast Asia; Language policy - Southeast Asia; Language planning - Southeast Asia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Features -- pt. 2. Policy (historical context & language planning) -- pt. 3. Language in use -- pt. 4. Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a section dedicated to the historical context and language planning policies to provide a background to understanding the development of the linguistic features covered in Part I and, finally, the vibrancy of the sociolinguistic and pragmatic realities that govern actual language in use in a wide variet

Privilege in the Soviet Union : a study of elite life-styles under communism / / Mervyn Matthews

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786056303321
• Autore: Matthews Mervyn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-71603-3; 1-136-71604-1; 1-283-96682-4; 0-203-81557-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Collana: Routledge revivals
• Disciplina: 301.44/92/0947; 301.44920947; 305.5209470904
• Soggetti: Elite (Social sciences) - Soviet Union; Social mobility - Soviet Union; Equality
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published in 1978 by George Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The Soviet elite in the seventies -- pt. 2. Privilege and the law since the revolution -- pt. 3. Social movement and comparison.
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms, the people who enjoyed them.This study is based on an extensive programme of personal interviews among emigré groups and a close analysis of original and little-known legal historical sources. There are special sections on the nature of change in the Soviet elite and on social mo

Latent class and latent transition analysis : with applications in the social, behavioral, and health sciences / / Linda M. Collins, Stephanie T. Lanza

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139489803321
• Autore: Collins Linda M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2010
• ISBN: 9786612687150; 9781118210765; 111821076X; 9781282687158; 1282687158; 9780470567333; 0470567333; 9780470567326; 0470567325
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Collana: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics ; ; v.718
• Altri autori (Persone): LanzaStephanie T. <1969->
• Disciplina: 300.15195; 519.535
• Soggetti: Latent structure analysis; Latent variables; Statistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis: With Applications in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; PART I FUNDAMENTALS; 1 General Introduction; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Conceptual foundation and brief history of the latent class model; 1.2.1 LCA and other latent variable models; 1.2.2 Some historical milestones in LCA; 1.2.3 LCA as a person-oriented approach; 1.3 Why select a categorical latent variable approach?; 1.4 Scope of this book; 1.5 Empirical example of LCA: Adolescent delinquency; 1.6 Empirical example of LTA: Adolescent delinquency1.7 About this ; book; 1.7.1 Using this book; 1.8 The examples in this book; 1.8.1 Empirical data sets; 1.9 Software; 1.10 Additional resources: The book's web site; 1.11 Suggested supplemental readings; 1.12 Points to remember; 1.13 What's next; 2 The latent class model; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Empirical example: Pubertal development; 2.2.1 An initial look at the data; 2.2.2 Why conduct LCA on the pubertal development data?; 2.2.3 Latent classes in the pubertal development data; 2.3 The role of item-response probabilities in interpreting latent classes2.3.1 A hypothetical example; 2.3.2 Interpreting the item-response probabilities to label the latent classes in the pubertal development example; 2.3.3 Qualitative and quantitative differences among the pubertal development latent classes; 2.4 Empirical example: Health risk behaviors; 2.4.1 An initial look at the data; 2.4.2 LCA of the health risk behavior data; 2.5 LCA: Model and notation; 2.5.1 Fundamental expressions; 2.5.2 The local independence assumption; 2.6 Suggested supplemental readings; 2.7 Points to remember; 2.8 What's next3 The relation between the latent variable and its indicators; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 The latent class measurement model; 3.2.1 Parallels with factor analysis; 3.2.2 Two criteria for evaluating item-response probabilities for a single variable; 3.2.3 Hypothetical and empirical examples of independence and weak relations; 3.2.4 Hypothetical and empirical examples of strong relations; 3.3 Homogeneity and latent class separation; 3.3.1 Homogeneity; 3.3.2 Latent class separation; 3.3.3 Hypothetical examples of homogeneity and latent class separation; 3.3.4 How homogeneity and latent class separation are related3.3.5 Homogeneity, latent class separation, and the number of response patterns observed; 3.3.6 Homogeneity and latent class separation in empirical examples; 3.4 The precision with which the observed variables measure the latent variable; 3.4.1 Why posterior probabilities of latent class membership are of interest; 3.4.2 Bayes' theorem; 3.4.3 What homogeneity and latent class separation imply about posterior probabilities and classification uncertainty; 3.4.4 Posterior classification uncertainty even with a high degree of homogeneity and latent class separation
• Sommario/riassunto: A modern, comprehensive treatment of latent class and latent transition analysis for categorical data On a daily basis, researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences collect information and fit statistical models to the gathered empirical data with the goal of making significant advances in these fields. In many cases, it can be useful to identify latent, or unobserved, subgroups in a population, where individuals' subgroup membership is inferred from their responses on a set of observed variables. Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis provides a comprehensiv