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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457421103321

Autore

Weinreich Uriel

Titolo

Languages in contact [[electronic resource] ] : French, German and Romansch in twentieth-century Switzerland / / Uriel Weinreich ; with an introduction and notes by Ronald I. Kim and William Labov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-32907-7

9786613329073

90-272-8499-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KimRonald I

LabovWilliam

Disciplina

409.494

Soggetti

Languages in contact - Switzerland

Multilingualism - Switzerland

Sociolinguistics - Switzerland

Electronic books.

Switzerland Ethnic relations

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. General research problems -- pt. 2. Bilingualism in Switzerland : cultural setting and linguistic effects -- pt. 3. French and German : a case of stable, long-term language contact -- pt. 4. German and Romansh : language contact in a situation of ongoing shift.

Sommario/riassunto

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich's Columbia University doctoral dissertation of 1951, Research Problems in Bilingualism with Special Reference to Switzerland. Based on the author's fieldwork, it contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially along the French-German linguistic border and between



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910988287603321

Titolo

Advances in Best–Worst Method : Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Best–Worst Method (BWM2024) / / edited by Jafar Rezaei, Matteo Brunelli, Majid Mohammadi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-76766-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 197 p. 29 illus., 18 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Operations Research, , 2731-0418

Disciplina

658.403

Soggetti

Operations research

Management science

Production management

Mathematical optimization

Operations Research and Decision Theory

Operations Research, Management Science

Operations Management

Optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Analyzing Swiss Energy Policy through a Fuzzy BWM-PROMETHEE Approach: A Socio-Political Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis -- A synergistic integration between large language models and the Best-Worst Method -- A Decision Support Tool for Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Land Management using the WEFE Nexus: A simulation for the Aral Sea Basin stakeholders -- Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Ranking Innovation Levels of G8 Countries with Extended GII: An Integrated Bayesian BWM and TOPSIS Method-ology -- How AI Transforms Barriers to Organic Arable Farming Adoption -- Exploring the Horizon of Industry 5.0: A Multifaceted Socio-Economic Transformation Towards a Sustainable and Inclusive Industrial Evolution -- Geospatial modeling of suitable sites for solar power plants based on GIS and BWM: A case study of the city of Kraljevo, Serbia -- Prioritizing the Product Features for Wearable Airbag Design using the Best-Worst Method -- Bayesian Best-Worst Method Application for



Assessing the Potential Effecting Areas of Climate Change: A Case Study in Turkey -- Integrated Approach for Mobile Sales App Feature Classification: Kano Model and BBWM Perspective.

Sommario/riassunto

This proceedings book contains selected papers from the Fifth International Workshop on Best-Worst Method (BWM2024), held in Delft, the Netherlands, from 13 to 14 June 2024. It presents recent advancements in theory and applications of the Best-Worst Method. It provides valuable insights on why and how to use BWM in a diverse set of applications including health, energy, supply chain management, and engineering. The book highlights the use of BWM in different settings including single decision-making vs group decision-making, full information vs incomplete and uncertain situations. Academics and practitioners who are involved in multi-criteria decision-making and decision-analysis could benefit from the papers published in this proceeding.