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Ojok, James Onono, Ajok Beatrice Abonga, and Arthur Owor. "Communication inside the LRA: Militarization of Acoli Language, a Cultural Patriotism or mere Rebel Indoctrination?" International Journal of Advanced Research 7, no. 1 (June 29, 2024): 152–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/ijar.7.1.2004.

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In an ideal situation, there should be no positive effect of the LRA war in Northern Uganda, but what of the real testimonies that the LRA war brought in many development partners with school fees scholarships through institutions like Acoli Education Initiatives, Invisible Children, Windle Trust Uganda among others. But where are they going to pay for school, the northern children in ‘war affected areas’, and others up to universities, if it were not because of the devastating effect of the war on Education? This is still without the many successful grants and PhD projects completed within Uganda and around the globe based on LRA attachment to spirituality, transitional justice or interrogating the Acoli traditional justice system versus international laws. A debate can be constructed, if necessary, that the authorities on the LRA scholarships are from the global north -meaning the war pulled scholars from their comfort zones. Secondarily, what do we owe this to? For lack of a better word, other scholars would call it the ‘unintended’ positive effect of the war. This journal paper borrows the philosophy that if you are telling a story, it should be told up-side-down. Chimamanda Ngozi, the Nigerian writer, baptised it as a one-sided story and called it the danger of a single story (Adichie 2009). Schulz, Apio et al (2024) tell us about the ‘Love and Care in the LRA’, which this paper calls bravery, with all the horror stories of the LRA! This paper is grounded in some of these philosophies of Adichie (2009) and Schulz, Apio et al. (2024) of telling all sides of the story, attempting to reconstruct the LRA use of Acoli language throughout their military operations as a demonstration of Acoli cultural attachment, loyalty and depiction of Acoli cultural patriotism or activism argued by this paper. This was through using secondary data review and holding in-depth purposive interviews with four former LRA returnees plus two cultural chiefs, including extracting the archival journalistic records of the first author, who was an active journalist in northern Uganda for over 10 years between 2010 and 2021. This journal paper, however, does not underscore the pain and sufferings, the LRA brought on the people of Uganda and other neighbouring countries. However, this paper just gives an ontological side of the LRA, which is hard to find in terms of their particular role in promoting Acoli culture by using Acoli language as their military operational medium of communication
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Beckmann, Gitte. "Sign language as a technology: existential and instrumental perspectives of Ugandan Sign Language." Africa 92, no. 4 (August 2022): 430–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972022000432.

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AbstractThe introduction of Ugandan Sign Language in Acholi, northern Uganda, was part of a growing internationally linked disability movement in the country and was set within the framework of development policy and human rights-based approaches. In this context, Ugandan Sign Language appeared as a technology of development. But how did the appropriation of Ugandan Sign Language change deaf people’s lives, their being-in-the-world, in Acholi? In using the theoretical approach of existential and instrumental perspectives on technologies by Martin Heidegger, this article analyses the complex transitions following the appropriation of Ugandan Sign Language on international, national and local levels. The disability movement – including Ugandan Sign Language projects – reached Acholi during the time of war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and Ugandan national forces. Displacement brought scattered deaf people together in towns and camps, where Ugandan Sign Language was introduced through workshops and institutions including churches. This created new forms of communication and possibilities of sociality. After the war, gender differences emerged, as many deaf women returned to rural homes where they had few opportunities to communicate with other sign language users.
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Otim, Patrick W. "Local Intellectuals: Lacito Okech and the Production of Knowledge in Colonial Acholiland." History in Africa 45 (April 23, 2018): 275–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2018.8.

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Abstract:In 1953, Lacito Okech, a precolonial royal messenger, Christian convert, and colonial chief, became the first Acholi to write and publish a history of his people. The book was instantly popular, inspiring many other Acholi to write histories of their respective chiefdoms. However, although these works constitute the bulk of vernacular Acholi histories, scholars have not paid attention to them, partly because of language limitations and partly due to limited scholarly interest in the history of the region. This article uses Okech’s life and book to explore important questions about the production of local history in colonial Acholiland. In particular, it explores Okech’s adroit manipulation of his complex circumstances at the intersection of the roles of messenger, convert, and colonial employee, his dilemmas as a local historian, and the influence of his roles as an intermediary between the Acholi on the one hand and the Church Missionary Society and the colonial regime on the other on his writing of history.
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Amarorwot, Sarah, and Bebwa Isingoma. "Order of adjectives and adverbs in L2 English: Evidence from L1 Acholi speakers of Ugandan English." Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT 9, no. 3 (November 24, 2021): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.46687/yxuv9786.

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L2 Englishes are quintessentially characterized by cross-linguistic influence at all levels of linguistic analysis as a result of contact phenomena. This study examines the contribution of the syntax of a Ugandan indigenous language (Acholi) to how its L1 speakers speak English and the extent of variability observed among them, taking into account two grammatical aspects, i.e. how multiple attributive adjectives are sequenced in a noun phrase and the placement of adverbs in a sentence. The findings of the study show notable differences from L1 English (e.g. Standard British English), as L1 Acholi speakers of English do not necessarily pay attention to the prescribed L1 English order of adjectives. At the same time, the position of adverbs in a sentence also seems to be modeled, to some extent, on what takes place in Acholi syntax insofar as some legitimate L1 English structures are rejected by L1 Acholi speakers of English (as L2). Crucially, the study also reveals interspeaker variability among L1 Acholi speakers of English in Uganda based on occupation, with students being the closest to L1 English norms (as opposed to teachers and the business community), most likely due to exonormative orientation imposed on students in Ugandan schools.
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Myers-Scotton, Carol. "Embedded Language elements in Acholi/English codeswitching: What's going on?" Language Matters 36, no. 1 (January 2005): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228190508566232.

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Han, Yi, Ryan Bruggeman, Joseph Peper, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Tucker Marion, Paolo Ciuccarelli, and Mohsen Moghaddam. "EXTRACTING LATENT NEEDS FROM ONLINE REVIEWS THROUGH DEEP LEARNING BASED LANGUAGE MODEL." Proceedings of the Design Society 3 (June 19, 2023): 1855–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pds.2023.186.

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AbstractAspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) provides an opportunity to systematically generate user's opinions of specific aspects to enrich the idea creation process in the early stage of product/service design process. Yet, the current ABSA task has two major limitations. First, existing research mostly focusing on the subsets of ABSA task, e.g. aspect-sentiment extraction, extract aspect, opinion, and sentiment in a unified model is still an open problem. Second, the implicit opinion and sentiment are ignored in the current ABSA task. This article tackles these gaps by (1) creating a new annotated dataset comprised of five types of labels, including aspect, category, opinion, sentiment, and implicit indicator (ACOSI) and (2) developing a unified model which could extract all five types of labels simultaneously in a generative manner. Numerical experiments conducted on the manually labeled dataset originally scraped from three major e-Commerce retail stores for apparel and footwear products indicate the performance, scalability, and potentials of the framework developed. Several directions are provided for future exploration in the area of automated aspect-based sentiment analysis for user-centered design.
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Edith Ruth, Natukunda-Togboa. "Peace, Culture and Communication: “Languaging” Post-conflict Disputes." English Linguistics Research 6, no. 4 (December 18, 2017): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v6n4p79.

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Language, which is rarely neutral, shapes perception and behavior. Consequently, it plays an important role in relation to conflict and peace. The language of conflict usually functions on the basis of using differences to promote violence. Interviews conducted on land disputes in the post-conflict context of Northern Uganda, showed that language can be used to reduce these differences and affirm dignity thus diffusing tensions. Our preceding studies of conflict discourse within returnee communities have endeavored to show how language use, by imposing certain misrepresentations as legitimate, undermines efforts of social reintegration, perpetuates conditions of negative peace and can pose a threat of returning to conflict.In this study of Gulu elders dealing with post-conflict disputes, language is perceived as a tool of positive peace. Borrowing from the sociocultural theory of mind and its application to concepts of language, the paper shows how language can foster open and inclusive communication and support the pursuit of peaceful cohabitation within returnee communities. It goes on to demonstrate how language, within the cultural institutions of returnee communities, constitutes power that can be used in “languaging” conflict resolution. According to the study, language has embedded within it actual relations of power, so much so that those who control it exercise an enormous influence on how the communities perceive conflict and peace-building and what behaviors they accept in relation to resolving post-conflict disputes.Consequently, the quick revitalization of traditional arrangements of dispute settlement has been possible in the area of Gulu because language is a strong social institution which has enhanced the efforts of peace maintenance in the Acholi post conflict context. Languaging or talking through disputes as an alternative discourse to conflict should be embraced as a strategy of empowering the voiceless. It is an effective and sustainable cost effective strategy for dealing with cyclic disputes especially when applied as complementary to other dispute settlement approaches.
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Adetuyi, Chris Ajibade, and Patrick Charles Alex. "ANALYSIS OF RELIGIOUS SATIRE IN PBITEKS SONG OF LAWINO." Celtic: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature and Linguistics 6, no. 2 (December 26, 2019): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/celtic.v6i2.9929.

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This paper focuses on the analysis of religious satire in Song of Lawino. The study occasionally refers to Okots life history and ideological inclinations and the review of related literature giveng background information that clarifies Okot pBiteks writing as a product of a rich Acholi oral tradition. While a lot has been written on Okots creative works, little attention has been given to the use of satire. The study therefore, identifies and evaluates Okots use of satire in Song of Lawino determines the use of language to achieve satire in the text, and discusses how the author uses satire as a tool to share ideas and opinions on religious perspectives in the society. This study treats satire as the humorous criticism of human weaknesses and foibles and uses this parameter to identify it in the Song of Lawino. This is to throw light on the creative works of Okots and highlight circumstances that may have shaped him into a satirist. The upshot of all these is that the songs are appropriately contextualized with the ultimate finding that satire is an indigenous African phenomenon amply and ably deployed in Okots art.
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Adetuyi, Chris Ajibade, and Patrick Charles Alex. "ANALYSIS OF RELIGIOUS SATIRE IN PBITEKS SONG OF LAWINO." Celtic: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature, & Linguistics 6, no. 2 (December 26, 2019): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/celticumm.vol6.no2.33-41.

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This paper focuses on the analysis of religious satire in Song of Lawino. The study occasionally refers to Okots life history and ideological inclinations and the review of related literature giveng background information that clarifies Okot pBiteks writing as a product of a rich Acholi oral tradition. While a lot has been written on Okots creative works, little attention has been given to the use of satire. The study therefore, identifies and evaluates Okots use of satire in Song of Lawino determines the use of language to achieve satire in the text, and discusses how the author uses satire as a tool to share ideas and opinions on religious perspectives in the society. This study treats satire as the humorous criticism of human weaknesses and foibles and uses this parameter to identify it in the Song of Lawino. This is to throw light on the creative works of Okots and highlight circumstances that may have shaped him into a satirist. The upshot of all these is that the songs are appropriately contextualized with the ultimate finding that satire is an indigenous African phenomenon amply and ably deployed in Okots art.
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Luo, Jingjing, and Zhonghua Wu. "Maren Rüsch. 2020. A conversational analysis of Acholi: structure and socio-pragmatics of a Nilotic language of Uganda. Leiden: Brill Academic, 376pp. ISBN 978-90-04-43758-6, $174.00." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 43, no. 1 (May 1, 2022): 133–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2022-8895.

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Books on the topic "Acoli language"

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Odu, Joseph. Acholi-English dictionary. Nairobi, Kenya: Sudan Literature Centre, 1999.

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Odonga, Alexander Mwa. Lwo-English dictionary. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2005.

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Okidi, Festo. Acholi for beginners: Grammar : Acholi-English, English-Acholi. London: Pilato, 2000.

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Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society, ed. A unified standard orthography for Eastern African Lwo Languages: Acoli, Dholuo, Dhopadhola and Lang'o. Cape Town, South Africa: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), 2007.

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Biddulph, Joseph. An introduction to Luo (Victoria Nyanza region, Kenya): Being an analysis of the usage & structures of the Luo New Testament, a window into a language of the Nilotic group : with brief remarks on Acoli (Acholi) (Uganda). Pontypridd: Languages Information Centre, 1985.

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Cik Acoli. Entebbe, Uganda: Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation, 2006.

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Ododo pa Acoli. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, 1999.

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Crazzolara, J. P. Study of the Àcool Language. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Crazzolara, J. P. Study of the Àcoólî Language: Grammar and Vocabulary. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Study of the Àcoólî Language: Grammar and Vocabulary. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Book chapters on the topic "Acoli language"

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Okumu, John Bismarck, Tom Henry Ogwang, and Wycliffe Scott Wafula. "Assessment of Mentoring and Teacher Effectiveness in Government-aided Secondary Schools in the Acholi Sub Region in Uganda." In Current Research in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 5, 136–48. Book Publisher International (a part of SCIENCEDOMAIN International), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/bpi/crlle/v5/15884d.

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Leman, Peter. "A Song Whose Time Has Come: Northern Uganda, Apocalyptic Futures, and the Oral Jurisprudence of Okot p’Bitek." In Singing the Law, 78–110. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621136.003.0003.

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In Artist, the Ruler (1986), Okot p’Bitek claims that the oral artist in Africa “proclaims the laws but expresses them in the most indirect language: through metaphor and symbol, in image and fable. He sings and dances his laws.” This provocative observation was one of the starting points for this book as a whole, and, here, I examine Song of Lawino (1966) and Song of Ocol (1967) in light of his claim that the oral artist is a lawmaker. I also situate his work in relationship to recent conversations about law and modernity in Northern Uganda’s struggle against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Although his work appeared long before the LRA, many of Okot’s texts have reemerged as part of a conversation about how to achieve reconciliation now that the conflict has largely ended. To account for this reception, I draw on Russell Samolsky’s concept of “apocalyptic futures,” arguing that the oral jurisprudence of Okot’s texts has “revealed itself to be ahead of its time,” taking on new significance in the context of the LRA, particularly in portraying Acholi legal principles critical to post-conflict reconciliation.
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Conference papers on the topic "Acoli language"

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BRÂNZILĂ, Carina. "Modern international approaches to English as a foreign language." In Ştiință și educație: noi abordări și perspective. "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46727/c.v3.24-25-03-2023.p197-203.

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Tendințele moderne de predare la nivel mondial au schimbat literalmente perspectivele privind predarea limbii engleze ca limbă străină, la toate nivelurile de educație, de la învățământul preșcolar la cel terțiar. Aceste noi abordări didactice au fost adoptate de mult timp de instituțiile de învățământ private, al căror scop principal este de a oferi rezultate bune în cât mai puțin timp posibil. De acolo se extind treptat la toate instituțiile de învățământ. De exemplu, abordarea comunicativă, adoptată pentru prima dată de școlile de limbi străine din întreaga lume, a devenit încet normă în predarea limbilor străine, în special a limbii engleze. Tendințele noi interferează mereu cu cele mai vechi, și poate că există ceva bun în ambele, care trebuie păstrat și folosit în beneficiul studenților. Pandemia Covid a reprezentat o schimbare semnificativă în raport cu predarea online, iar acest lucru a dus, de asemenea, la schimbări importante în didactica limbii engleze. Ca rezultat, tehnologia și dispozitivele electronice au inundat sistemele didactice în lume și se pare că nu vor dispărea curând. În acest context, ne putem întreba care este cea mai bună abordare didactică, și dacă există o asemenea abordare? Această comunicare va încerca să facă lumină cu privire la aspectul dat și poate să ofere câteva răspunsuri.
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Han, Yi, and Mohsen Moghaddam. "A Design Knowledge Guided Position Encoding Methodology for Implicit Need Identification From User Reviews." In ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2023-116789.

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Abstract Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) enables a systematic identification of user opinions on particular aspects, thus enhancing the idea creation process in the initial stages of product/service design. Attention-based large language models (LLMs) like BERT and T5 have proven powerful in ABSA tasks. Yet, several key limitations remain, both regarding the ABSA task and the capabilities of attention-based models. First, existing research mainly focuses on relatively simpler ABSA tasks such as aspect-based sentiment analysis, while the task of extracting aspect, opinion, and sentiment in a unified model remains largely unaddressed. Second, current ABSA tasks overlook implicit opinions and sentiments. Third, most attention-based LLMs like BERT use position encoding in a linear projected manner or through split-position relations in word distance schemes, which could lead to relation biases during the training process. This article addresses these gaps by (1) creating a new annotated dataset with five types of labels, including aspect, category, opinion, sentiment, and implicit indicator (ACOSI), (2) developing a unified model capable of extracting all five types of labels simultaneously in a generative manner, and (3) designing a new position encoding method in the attention-based model. The numerical experiments conducted on a manually labeled dataset scraped from three major e-Commerce retail stores for apparel and footwear products demonstrate the performance, scalability, and potential of the framework developed. The article concludes with recommendations for future research on automated need finding and sentiment analysis for user-centered design.
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