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Korin, Ezequiel. "Inter/Viewing from Afar." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 10, no. 3 (2021): 117–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.3.117.
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Since 2003, journalists in Venezuela have been censored by the government, either directly or indirectly, through legal and paralegal means. As such, they have learned to tread carefully between self-censorship and retaliation, greatly impacting the way journalism is practiced there. This evocative autoethnography explores the experience of a recent émigré of Venezuela to the United States interviewing journalists in his former home country. The emergence of elements that rearticulate the sense of belonging in the interviewer are used as touch points to a reality presumably left behind, but ultimately lying dormant, ready to resurface at a moment’s notice.
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Grünke, Jonas, Bistra Andreeva, Christoph Gabriel, and Mitko Sabev. "Vocative Intonation in Language Contact: The Case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish." Languages 8, no. 4 (December 8, 2023): 284. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8040284.
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The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of Bulgarian in a discourse completion task across three pragmatic contexts: (i) neutral (routine) context—calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) positive context—calling a child from afar to get a present; and (iii) negative (or urgent) context—calling a child from afar for a chastising. Through quantitative analyses of the F0 span between tonal landmarks, alignment of pitch peaks, intensity, and durational and prominence patterns, we systematically account for the phonetic characteristics of the contours and determine their tonal composition and meaning, thereby situating them within the intonation systems of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian. It is shown that both languages use the same inventory of contours: (1) L+H* !H-% (the so-called “vocative chant”), (2) L+H* H-L%, and (3) L+H* L-%. However, their distribution differs across contexts and varieties. Monolingual and bilingual speakers of Bulgarian, on the one hand, predominantly use (1) and (2) in neutral and positive contexts and clearly prefer (3) in negative contexts. In Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish, the bilinguals also more often recur to (3) in neutral and positive contexts and generally show more variation.
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Greer, Tim. "Scandinavian bilingual and L2 interaction: A view from afar." International Journal of Bilingualism 17, no. 2 (March 26, 2013): 237–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006912441422.
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De Witte, Elke, Vitória Piai, Garret Kurteff, Ruofan Cai, Peter Mariën, Nina Dronkers, Edward Chang, and Mitchel Berger. "A valid alternative for in-person language assessments in brain tumor patients: feasibility and validity measures of the new TeleLanguage test." Neuro-Oncology Practice 6, no. 2 (July 17, 2018): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nop/npy020.
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Abstract Background Although language deficits after awake brain surgery are usually milder than post-stroke, postoperative language assessments are needed to identify these. Follow-up of brain tumor patients in certain geographical regions can be difficult when most patients are not local and come from afar. We developed a short telephone-based test for pre- and postoperative language assessments. Methods The development of the TeleLanguage Test was based on the Dutch Linguistic Intraoperative Protocol and existing standardized English batteries. Two parallel versions were composed and tested in healthy native English speakers. Subsequently, the TeleLanguage Test was administered in a group of 14 tumor patients before surgery and at 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months after surgery. The test includes auditory comprehension, repetition, semantic selection, sentence or story completion, verbal naming, and fluency tests. It takes less than 20 minutes to administer. Results Healthy participants had no difficulty performing any of the language tests via the phone, attesting to the feasibility of a phone assessment. In the patient group, all TeleLanguage test scores significantly declined shortly after surgery with a recovery to preoperative levels at 3 months postsurgery for naming and fluency tasks and a recovery to normal levels for the other language tasks. Analysis of the in-person language assessments (until 1 month) revealed a similar profile. Conclusion The use of the TeleLanguage battery to conduct language assessments from afar can provide convenience, might optimize patient care, and enables longitudinal clinical research. The TeleLanguage is a valid tool for various clinical and scientific purposes.
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Hamann, Silke, and Susanne Fuchs. "How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 49 (January 1, 2008): 97–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.49.2008.366.
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The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voiced but not voiceless alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of front coronals. This retroflexion is shown to have occurred diachronically in the three typologically unrelated languages Dhao (Malayo-Polynesian), Thulung (Sino-Tibetan), and Afar (East-Cushitic). In addition to the diachronic cases, we provide synchronic data for retroflexion from an articulatory study with four speakers of German, a language usually described as having alveolar stops. With these combined data we supply evidence that voiced retroflex stops (as the only retroflex segments in a language) did not necessarily emerge from implosives, as argued by Haudricourt (1950), Greenberg (1970), Bhat (1973), and Ohala (1983). Instead, we propose that the voiced front coronal plosive /d/ is generally articulated in a way that favours retroflexion, that is, with a smaller and more retracted place of articulation and a lower tongue and jaw position than /t/.
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Ban, Kristina, Matjaž Perc, and Zoran Levnajić. "Robust clustering of languages across Wikipedia growth." Royal Society Open Science 4, no. 10 (October 2017): 171217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171217.
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Wikipedia is the largest existing knowledge repository that is growing on a genuine crowdsourcing support. While the English Wikipedia is the most extensive and the most researched one with over 5 million articles, comparatively little is known about the behaviour and growth of the remaining 283 smaller Wikipedias, the smallest of which, Afar, has only one article. Here, we use a subset of these data, consisting of 14 962 different articles, each of which exists in 26 different languages, from Arabic to Ukrainian. We study the growth of Wikipedias in these languages over a time span of 15 years. We show that, while an average article follows a random path from one language to another, there exist six well-defined clusters of Wikipedias that share common growth patterns. The make-up of these clusters is remarkably robust against the method used for their determination, as we verify via four different clustering methods. Interestingly, the identified Wikipedia clusters have little correlation with language families and groups. Rather, the growth of Wikipedia across different languages is governed by different factors, ranging from similarities in culture to information literacy.
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Larson, Pier M. "Malagasy at the Mascarenes: Publishing in a Servile Vernacular before the French Revolution." Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, no. 3 (June 29, 2007): 582–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417507000631.
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European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed “colonial linguistics” were based on investigations among speakers of native tongues in the regions in which those speakers normally resided, twining language studies with observed “native” cultural qualities and setting out territories of colonial interest defined by local language and culture. Fewer colonial linguists ventured into plural societies to study the linguae francae of trade and labor that enabled communication across broad cultural and language differences, in part because such zones were considered dangerous and unstable, or lacking in mother tongues. Fewer still elected destinations of forced migration such as slave societies or freedmen's towns and villages to examine the mother tongues of persons who had come coercively from afar, though many such settings in certain periods offered a rich menu of languages for study. Those interested in the linguistic characteristics of slave societies tended to concern themselves more with the emerging European creoles, languages they could more easily understand than the native tongues of slaves or the contact languages of non-European provenance that sometimes coexisted with or preceded widespread use of European creole speeches in such locations. Today, most linguistic studies in the former slave colonies are focused exclusively on European creoles. Even recent monographs on African culture in the Americas only mention the speaking of African languages in passing, though language is a fundamental element of culture and linked in key ways to the continuity of ethnic ideas and practices. Together with the relative paucity of colonial documentation on slaves' lives and languages, the sited and topical hierarchy of colonial linguistics continues to powerfully structure historical studies of language in the former slave colonies.
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Man Kong Lum, Casey. "An Intimate Voice from Afar: A Brief History of New York's Chinese-Language Wireless Radio." Journal of Radio Studies 7, no. 2 (November 2000): 355–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15506843jrs0702_9.
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Hamann, Silke, and Susanne Fuchs. "Retroflexion of Voiced Stops: Data from Dhao, Thulung, Afar and German." Language and Speech 53, no. 2 (May 17, 2010): 181–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830909357159.
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Wirtz, Mason. "Understanding Austria from Afar: Treating Regional Variation in the Virtu-al German as a Foreign Language Classroom." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 33, no. 3 (December 20, 2021): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v33i3.548.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced nearly every aspect of the academic world, and study abroad is no exception. Particularly in the foreign language learning sector, the unprecedented switch from in-class lectures to distance learning brought with it many challenges. Not only were language instructors tasked with creating an interactive language learning atmosphere from afar but continuing to spark student motivation while catering to a broad range of learning goals constituted a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. The following case study therefore seeks to provide an easily adaptable and interactive task-based activity for the German as a foreign language classroom that should support learners in gaining a deeper understanding of the social dimensions and usages of Austrian regional varieties. Furthermore, the activity is designed so as to be applicable in both an online as well as face-to-face classroom and accommodate foreign language instructors with less experience in digital course delivery and/or minimal access to learning management systems.
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Die COVID-19 Pandemie hat nahezu jeden Aspekt der akademischen Welt beeinflusst, und Study Abroad ist keine Ausnahme. Gerade im Bereich des Fremdsprachenerwerbs hat die beispiellose Umstellung von Präsenzunterricht auf Fernlehre viele Herausforderungen mit sich gebracht. Nicht nur wurden Fremdsprachenlehrer:innen mit der Aufgabe konfrontiert, eine interaktive Sprachlernatmosphäre aus der Ferne zu schaffen, sondern auch die Motivation der Schüler:innen trotz der Situation zu wecken, aufrechtzuerhalten und gleichzeitig ein breites Spektrum an Lernzielen zu berücksichtigen. Dies hat eine scheinbar unüberwindbare Hürde dargestellt. In der folgenden Fallstudie handelt es sich daher um die Bereitstellung einer leicht adaptierbaren und interaktiven task-based Aktivität für den Deutsch als Fremdsprachenunterricht, die Lernende dabei unterstützen soll, ein tieferes Verständnis der sozialen Dimensionen und Verwendungen österreichischer Regionalvarietäten zu erlangen. Darüber hinaus ist die Aktivität so konzipiert, dass sie sowohl im Online- wie auch im Präsenzunterricht Einsatz finden und von Fremd-sprachenlehrer:innen mit wenig(er) Erfahrung in der digitalen Abhaltung von Lehrveranstaltungen und/oder minimalem Zugang zu Lernmanagement-systemen umgesetzt werden kann.
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Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun, Jeanne Kurvers, and Sjaak Kroon. "Negen Talen En Drie Schriften." Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 75 (January 1, 2006): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.75.09asf.
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In view of its sociolinguistic situation and its mother tongue language policy Eritrea qualifies as an excellent site for comparatively investigating the acquisition and use of literacy in nine different languages (Tigrinya, Tigre, Afar, Saho, Bidhaawyeet, Kunama, Nara, Bilen and Rashaida) using three different scripts (syllabic Geez, alphabetic Latin and consonantal-alphabetic Arabic) within one and the same cultural and educational context. This contribution presents first results of a literacy survey with 670 Eritreans (which is part of a larger NWO-WOTRO research project). It goes into the respondents' level of literacy, their use of reading and writing in a number of societal domains, their use of the different scripts, and their preferences for the different scripts. A main outcome of the survey is that both, religion and ethnolinguistic group membership, play an important role in the use and positive evaluation of specific scripts. The majority of respondents report a preference for either Geez or Arabic, the scripts of the holy books of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Islam respectively, whereas the Latin alphabet, notwithstanding the official support it gets and the fact that it is used for six out of nine Eritrean languages, hardly plays a societal role.
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Sogues Marco, Marc. "«Fent una reixa ofici de vicari». La paradoxa de la reixa en la poesia de Vicent Garcia i Francesc Fontanella." SCRIPTA. Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna 21, no. 21 (June 22, 2023): 517. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/scripta.21.26848.
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Resum: El present article parteix de la comparació entre el tòpic de l’amor de lluny (o amor absent), referit a aquella mena de textos en què el jo poètic es troba separat de la dama que estima, i el que es proposa d’anomenar ‘amor de reixa’, que s’esdevé en la poesia d’amors mongívols quan una monja i el seu pretendent es troben separats únicament per la distància mínima però insalvable de la reixa d’un locutori. El treball analitza els paral·lelismes i les divergències entre els dos tòpics i els il·lustra amb l’anàlisi d’un romanç de Francesc Fontanella i tres sonets de Francesc Vicent Garcia, Rector de Vallfogona. També s’identifica un cas de relació intertextual entre els dos autors que no havia estat detectat fins ara.Paraules clau: poesia barroca, literatura satírica, Francesc Fontanella, Francesc Vicent Garcia, amor de lluny.Abstract: The present article starts from the comparison between the cliché of love from afar (or absent love), referred to that kind of texts in which the poetic self is separated from the lady he loves, and what is proposed to be called ‘grilled love’, which happens in the poetry of monastic love when a nun and her suitor are separated only by the minimal but insurmountable distance of the grill of a locutory. The work analyzes the parallels and divergences between the two clichés and illustrates them with the analysis of a romance by Francesc Fontanella and three sonnets by Francesc Vicent Garcia, Rector of Vallfogona. Also, it is pointed out a case of intertextual relationship between the two authors that had not been detected until now.Keywords: baroque poetry, satirical literature, Francesc Fontanella, Francesc Vicent Garcia, love from afar.
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Vieco, Francisco José Cortés. "The Anatomist of Love and Disease in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body." Anglia 140, no. 3-4 (December 1, 2022): 481–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2022-0048.
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Abstract Historically, both the male and the medical gaze have sexualized and pathologized the female anatomy. Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body simultaneously perpetuates and problematizes the alliance between patriarchy and science that objectifies and disempowers women and their own stories. Her novel’s genderless narrator first eroticizes her/his beloved Louise and later abandons her because she suffers with leukemia, leaving her in the hands of her husband-doctor, a man whom she no longer loves or trusts. Under the umbrella of medical humanities, this essay explores how Winterson’s narrator dehumanizes and silences Louise by becoming the anatomist of her cancer to possess her entirely from afar and to mourn the loss of access to her sexual body; vicariously experiencing leukemia through storytelling, and thus depriving Louise of her right to make choices in her life, the comforting presence of the person she loves by her side, and the therapy of narrating her own account about terminal illness on the look of death.
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Baldaquí, Josep M. "Els clubs de lectura a les biblioteques públiques de Catalunya, el País Valencià i les Illes Balears." Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 32 (July 1, 2019): 109–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.46586/zfk.2019.109-141.
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Summary: Book clubs – a phenomenon that comes from afar – have experienced remarkable quantitative and qualitative expansion lately. This paper aims at describing the deployment of book clubs in Catalonia, the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands for the first time. The research is based on a survey carried out among the public libraries of the three territories and intends to describe the main features of this phenomenon, including the linguistic uses in this particular context. The results show a different degree of deployment of book clubs, which is a more ingrained and diversified phenomenon in Catalonia than in the other territories. The comparative study of the characteristics of book clubs allows us to suggest strategies to facilitate the expansion of book clubs in the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands. Keywords: Book clubs, Catalan language, public libraries, description, comparative study, linguistic usage
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Heugh, Kathleen. "Shades, Voice and Mobility: Afar pastoralist and Rift Valley communities (re)interpreting literacy and linguistic practices." Multilingual Margins: A journal of multilingualism from the periphery 1, no. 1 (November 6, 2018): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/mm.v1i1.20.
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In this paper, narrative data from remote communities in Ethiopia reveal in intimateways how ‘linguistic citizenship’ (Stroud 2001) is claimed and exercised to resisteducational decisions which are insensitive to the rhythms of pastoral or rural life.Even where communities are distant from the discourses and resources of the centre,individuals and community spokespersons express powerful views which resonate withcontemporary global and local concerns of linguistic diversity, literacy and migration.While conventional representations suggest that such communities lack agency andvoice, are require externally delivered aid and to be ‘spoken for’, this article revealsa matrix of articulate positions on language/s, literacy/ies and participation in bothprimary school and adult education. Amongst the challenges of (re)interpretationfor the researcher is a discordant intersection of fluid temporal and spatial positionsof researcher and respondent, simultaneously translocal and transnational. Agitatedshifts in time and space recast shades and voice for both respondent and researcher.This paper raises questions for research procedures and interpretation of narrativeaccounts of literacy(ies), linguistics and educational practices on the margins. Inparticular, the discussion suggests that an understanding of and sensitivity towardsthe linguistic citizenship of informants as well as the multilayered positions of theresearcher, including the researcher’s own linguistic citizenship, offer productivetheoretical and methodological approaches to ethnographic research.
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Lien, Donald. "Financial effects of the Confucius Institute on Chinese language acquisition: Isn’t it delightful that friends come from afar to teach you Hanyu?" North American Journal of Economics and Finance 24 (January 2013): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2012.04.001.
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Abeywardena, Sandani Yapa. "Reading Supreme Courts from afar: Topic modelling judgements of the Supreme Courts of Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom." University of Colombo Review 4, no. 1 (October 24, 2023): 3–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/ucr.v4i1.116.
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In legal scholarship, court judgments are pivotal in shaping jurisprudence. Situated within the field of digital humanities as it applies to legal texts, this article takes a closer look at the underlying themes in Supreme Court judgments by applying topic modelling to the judgments delivered by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (LKSC) and the United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC). Using two custom datasets curated by (web) scraping the respective LKSC and UKSC websites, this article employs Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) with the Machine Learning for Language Toolkit (MALLET), a commonly used tool for topic modelling by digital humanists, to identify topics (themes) that represent the main areas of law in each jurisdiction primarily dealt with by the respective courts. 25 was selected as the number of topics after experimentation, and the topics identified in each jurisdiction were manually labelled. The results reveal the composition and evolution of judicial workloads, the shifting socio-political priorities in each jurisdiction, as well as the similarities and differences between the two courts. The findings have several implications for legal research and practice. These suggest that topic modelling can be used as a tool to organize and categorize judgments based on their themes, which can facilitate access and retrieval of relevant cases, and identify priority areas for judicial and legal training. They also challenge conventional legal taxonomies and classifications, and demonstrate the potential of computational methods for enhancing the understanding and analysis of law.
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Žindžiuvienė, Ingrida Eglė. "Nostalgia for the Lost Homeland as Part of Identity in Alė Rūta’s Works." Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, no. 9 (April 24, 2018): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/jk.2018.9.09.
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The article examines the representation of nostalgic memory of the lost homeland, Lithuania, in the Lithuanian diaspora writer’s, Alė Rūta’s (1915-2011), trilogy called “The Destiny of the Exiled”, which consists of the novels Pirmieji svetur (1984; Eng. - The First Abroad), Daigynas (1987; Eng. – The Seedling Plot), and Skamba tolumoj (1997; Eng. Echoes from Afar). These novels describe the multilayered problems of Lithuanian immigration into the U.S.A. and life of the immigrants there. Alė Rūta (Elena Nakaitė-Arbienė) is a well-known Lithuanian author, most of whose works (novels and collections of short stories and poems, all written in the Lithuanian language) have been published by the publishers of Lithuanian diaspora in the United States of America. The trauma of the loss of the native land results in the transmitted nostalgia in her novels. The author both mourns over the lost homeland and shares with the readers her grief over this loss and longing for seeing it again. In doing this, Alė Rūta echoes the nostalgic voices of many immigrants, who left their native country at different periods. The article also discusses the issue of preservation of ethnic identity, which is constructed on nostalgic and often melancholic memories of the past, and explores different types of nostalgia, which forms a core of Alė Rūta’s trilogy.
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Zepro, Nejimu Biza, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Afona Chernet, Rea Tschopp, Charles Abongomera, Daniel H. Paris, and Sonja Merten. "Navigating challenges: a socioecological analysis of sexual and reproductive health barriers among Eritrean refugee women in Ethiopia, using a key informant approach." BMJ Open 14, no. 4 (April 2024): e080654. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080654.
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ObjectivesThe study aimed to explore the experiences and perceptions of healthcare providers (HCPs) regarding the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges of Eritrean refugee women in Ethiopia.DesignA qualitative exploratory design with the key informant approach.Setting and participantsThe study was conducted in the Afar regional state, North East, Ethiopia. The study participants were HCP responsible for providing SRH care for refugee women.ResultsEritrean refugee women have worse health outcomes than the host population. The SRH needs were found to be hindered at multiple layers of socioecological model (SEM). High turnover and shortage of HCP, restrictive laws, language issues, cultural inconsistencies and gender inequalities were among the main barriers reported. Complex multistructural factors are needed to improve SRH needs of Eritrean refugee women.ConclusionsA complex set of issues spanning individual needs, social norms, community resources, healthcare limitations and structural mismatches create significant barriers to fulfilling the SRH needs of Eritrean refugee women in Ethiopia. Factors like limited awareness, cultural taboos, lack of safe spaces, inadequate healthcare facilities and restrictive policies all contribute to the severe limitations on SRH services available in refugee settings. The overlap in findings underscores the importance of developing multilevel interventions that are culturally sensitive to the needs of refugee women across all SEM levels. A bilateral collaboration between Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) structures and the Asayta district healthcare system is critically important.
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Walga, Tamene Keneni. "Prospects and Challenges of Afan Oromo: A Commentary." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 6 (June 1, 2021): 606–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1106.03.
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Afan Oromo- the language of the Oromo- is also known as Oromo. The word ‘Oromo’ refers to both the People of Oromo and their language. It is one of the widely spoken indigenous African languages. It is also spoken in multiple countries in Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania among others. Moreover, it is spoken as a native language, second language and lingua-franca across Ethiopia and beyond. Regardless of its scope in terms of number of speakers and geographical area it covers, Afan Oromo as a literary language is only emerging due to perpetuating unfair treatment it received from successive Ethiopian regimes. This commentary sought to examine prospects and challenges of Afan Oromo. To this end, drawing on existing literature and author’s own personal observations, salient prospects and challenges of Afan Oromo have been presented and briefly discussed. Suggestions to confront the challenges foreseen have been proposed by the author where deemed necessary. The paper concludes with author’s concluding remarks concerning the way forward.
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Aemiro, Aleka, Sisay Menkir, Dires Tegen, and Gedam Tola. "Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminthes and Associated Risk Factors Among People of Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Infectious Diseases: Research and Treatment 15 (January 2022): 117863372110554. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786337211055437.
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Background: A Soil-transmitted helminthic infection (STHIs) remains a notable health problem in resource-limited countries. Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the overall prevalence of STH infections in Ethiopia. Methods: Articles written in English were searched from online public databases. Searching terms taken separately and jointly were “prevalence,” “soil-transmitted helminths” “nematode,” “Geo-helminths,” “roundworm,” “Necator,” “Ancylostoma,” “Ascaris,” “Trichuris,” “hookworm,” “whipworm,” “ S. strecoralies,” “associated factors,” and “Ethiopia.” We used STATA version 14 for meta-analysis and Cochran’s Q test statistics and the I2 test for heterogeneity. Result: From 297 reviewed articles 41 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The pooled prevalence of STH infections in Ethiopia was 36.78% Ascaris lumbricoides had the highest pooled prevalence 17.63%, followed by hook worm12.35%. Trichuris trichiura 7.24% when the prevalence of S. strecoralies was 2.16% (95% CI: 0.97-3.35). Age, sex, residence, family education level, lack of shoe wearing habits and open defecation were identified as risk factors for STH infection. Eating unwashed and uncooked fruit and vegetables increased the risk of STH infection by 1.88 times while untrimmed finger nail and lack of hand washing habits increase the risk of STH infection by 1.28 and 3.16 times respectively with 95% CI. Limitation: Lack of published studies from Afar, Gambela, Somali, and Benshangul gumuz regions may affect the true picture. The other limitation is that the search strategy will be restricted articles published only in the English language but there might be articles that published using another language. Conclusion: Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworms and Trichuris trichiura, are the most prevalent soil-transmitted helminthes infections in Ethiopia. Age, sex, residence, family education level, lack of shoe wearing habits Open defecation untrimmed finger nail and lack of hand washing habits significantly associated with STH infection. When eating unwashed, uncooked fruit and vegetables were not significantly associated with STH infection. Strategic use of anti-helminthic, health education, and adequate sanitation, taking into account this epidemiologic information is helpful in the control of STH infections in Ethiopia.
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Vermeer, Eduard. "JANE KATE LEONARD, Controlling From Afar: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824-1826. Center for Chinese Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1996." T'oung Pao 85, no. 1 (1999): 230–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853299774249847.
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ЧЕРНЦОВА, Е. В. "Релевантность понятий «гештальт», «фигура», «фон», «фокус» для анализа концептуальной области «кажимости»." Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 64, no. 1 (June 2019): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/060.2019.64104.
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The paper suggests the metacognitive representation of the conceptual framework of кажимость gestalt. The metacognitive representation is based on the inferential conclusions obtained by cognitive-discursive analysis of the functioning contexts of polysemous verbal predicates казаться, показаться. The Gestalt script includes native speakers’ experience conceptualized in the semantics of contexts. This experience can be presented by the following meta-utterances: The speaker knows that it is not possible to see an object being observed properly from afar, i.e. the first impression of it could turn out to be mistaken. The speaker also knows that it is possible to come closer to the object afterwards and observe it, i.e. to re-verify the results of perception empirically. This allows them to form a more complete idea / knowledge about the object. Subsequently, the speaker reflects on his first visual impression based on the received idea / knowledge, evaluates it as “true” or “false”. In addition, the speaker is aware that there are particular circumstances under which effect the visual images of objects in the real world are distorted and the recipient receives visual illusions. In the paper, a cognitive Gestalt script was formed. Based on it, all contexts with the words казаться, показаться are built. Due to the dialectical combination of perceptual and epistemic modes, a single /unified Gestalt script consists of two parts. On the one hand, there is supposed to be a subject-experiencer as well as his perceptual act, the object he observes, the first, potentially erroneous /distorted image of the object. There should also be a potential opportunity to implement an act of reflexive verification of the first impression and establish the truth. On the other hand, there is supposed to be the subject as a bearer of knowledge, his knowledge of the distorted character of the subject-experiencer's perception as well as his knowledge of the inconsistency between the subject-experiencer's first impression and what exists in reality. In addition, there should be implicit / explicit awareness of the reasons that led to the distortion of the perception results. The author demonstrates the integrity of the conceptual semantics of the Gestalt script. The correlation between the conceptual level and the level of language semantics is shown in a sketchy way in terms of figure, background, and focus. The author also describes focus shifts which underlie the construction of different contexts - background and figure.
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Tian, Lin. "Application of Chinese Classical Garden Landscaping Techniques in Modern Indoor Natural Landscape Design from the Perspective of Virtual Reality Technology." Advances in Multimedia 2022 (October 12, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4240197.
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In the multimedia information comprehensive development of multimedia culture, the traditional technology of many industries and advanced mobile technology develop in concert. Ancient Chinese gardens have a long history. They are rich in content, outstanding in style, and full of characteristics. They have great aesthetic value and are the valuable property of all mankind. This paper discusses the environmental expression, spatial layout, and element combination in traditional garden art. The study of landscape design techniques involves different subjects. Through the developed mobile multimedia information, the traditional garden design is more rich, separation but not blocking, desire to promote first restraint, twists and turns, appropriate scale, borrowing from afar and borrowing from neighbors. The application of these expression techniques in modern interior design is of great significance. By using the ancient gardens of our country to reflect the civilization products of our country in a certain historical stage, the paper traces its development ideas and motives and analyzes the consistency with the corresponding contemporary ideological development. From the perspective of space design, this paper discusses the influence of ancient gardens on contemporary space creation from the aspects of space type, structure form, and space language. How to apply the reference means of ancient Chinese garden design to modern interior decoration through multimedia information so that the interior space can also experience the aesthetic pleasure of “changing scenery” so that the traditional landscape and modern interior decoration can be more fully integrated. This is something designers have to think about. Chinese ancient gardens have always been the focus of domestic design circles. Both the ideas behind it and its own gardening techniques can be used for reference by contemporary interior design. Therefore, the main content of this paper is the foundation of the transformation mechanism of traditional garden in contemporary design through multimedia information. Based on the framework system of contemporary indoor natural landscape or indoor natural landscape as the background, this paper discusses how to use virtual reality technology for reference to the gardening techniques of classical Chinese gardens.
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Rucart, Pierre. "The Vocalism of Strong Verbs in Afar." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 27, no. 2 (June 25, 2001): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v27i2.1075.
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Harutyunyan, Kristine. "Taboos: Universalities and Differences." Armenian Folia Anglistika 7, no. 2 (9) (October 17, 2011): 117–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2011.7.2.117.
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Taboos which exist in all languages represent the language layer reflecting the culture of the given society. Currently, the use of taboos is conditioned by the context in which they are used. <br/ >The present article attempts to examine the use of taboos by English and Armenian native speakers. The results of the experiment once again prove the dependence of taboos on the cultural environment the person lives in. The study of the appearance and disappearance of taboos in various languages can demonstrate the social and cultural developments in the societies where the given language is used.
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Harutyunyan, Kristine. "Kinship Terms: Universality and Ethnolinguistic Saliance." Armenian Folia Anglistika 4, no. 1-2 (5) (October 15, 2008): 16–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2008.4.1-2.016.
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The article attempts to examine the characteristic features of kinship terms in Armenian, English and Russian. Kinship terms make up a solid system with closely interconnected constituents. Kinship terms, which can be found in all languages, act as universalities. However, being universalities kinship terms may be different in different languages in terms of ethnolinguistic salience. The existence of certain kinship terms in a given language is, of course, connected with the kinship relations existing in the given society. Language affects the world perception of the language bearers. It reflects the notions and phenomena that are of prime importance for the speakers of the given language.
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Hirvensalo, Mika, Etienne Moutot, and Abuzer Yakaryılmaz. "Computational limitations of affine automata and generalized affine automata." Natural Computing 20, no. 2 (January 18, 2021): 259–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11047-020-09815-1.
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AbstractWe present new results on the computational limitations of affine automata (AfAs). First, we show that using the endmarker does not increase the computational power of AfAs. Second, we show that the computation of bounded-error rational-valued AfAs can be simulated in logarithmic space. Third, we identify some logspace unary languages that are not recognized by algebraic-valued AfAs. Fourth, we show that using arbitrary real-valued transition matrices and state vectors does not increase the computational power of AfAs in the unbounded-error model. When focusing only the rational values, we obtain the same result also for bounded error. As a consequence, we show that the class of bounded-error affine languages remains the same when the AfAs are restricted to use rational numbers only.
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Abrahamyan, Karine. "Comparative Analysis of the Category of Diminutiveness in the Russian, English and Armenian Languages." Armenian Folia Anglistika 15, no. 2 (20) (October 15, 2019): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2019.15.2.032.
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The paper highlights the most typical features of the lexico-grammatical category of diminutiveness from the derivational point of view. The correlation between language and culture, language and national linguistic traditions, language and national mentality is revealed through the category under study.
The results of the research prove that applying cognitive approach to the analysis of the category of diminutiveness on the derivational level enables us to reveal: a) the existing asymmetry of linguistic images of the world in different languages, b) graduality of the lexico-grammatical category of diminutiveness in Modern Russian which brings forth peculiar derivational clusters.
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Abera Hordofa, Bekele, and Shambel Dechasa Degefa. "A Review of Natural Language Processing Techniques: Application to Afan Oromo." International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research 10, no. 03 (March 4, 2021): 051–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7753/ijcatr1003.1001.
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Language is a means of communication and a symbol of national identity. Afan Oromo is one of written and spoken indigenous language in Ethiopia which uses a writing system called Qubee. Natural language processing is automatic or semi-automatic processing of human language that helps computers to understand and process language. NLP techniques involve various linguistic levels to understand and use language. Linguistic levels are an explanatory method for presenting what actually happens within a natural language processing system. This is very important to develop appropriate and desired NLP applications at both higher and lower levels. In this paper, we present a review of techniques, current trends and challenges in NLP application to Afan Oromo.
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Ghazaryan, Grigor. "The Modeling of Social Distance on the Mat: Towards a Semiotic Study of Aikido." Armenian Folia Anglistika 12, no. 2 (16) (October 17, 2016): 72–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2016.12.2.072.
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The study of language through sign systems that represent “by-products” or substitutes of language as a means of communication is a direction in linguistics that adds to the knowledge about the productivity and language-generating potential of natural languages. Nonverbal language which boasts a plethora of wordless cues through which people communicate, includes postures, gestures, stances, and movements, all of which can be analyzed and explained through the use of the instruments of a semiotic methodology. For instance, the study of signs through the rituals, conventions and overall nonverbal interactions in the diaculture of modern Japanese martial arts, reveals interesting characteristics of the sign language used particularly in Kenjutsu and Aikido. The mentioned martial arts make wide use of nonverbal cues that are characterized by features of indexicality, iconicity and symbolicity, and echo concrete social norms and conventions. Those social conventions are materialized and translated into the setting of trainings through philosophical concepts and ideas.
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Giorgi, Alessandra. "The Comparative Method in Synchronic Linguistics: The Case of Word Order." Armenian Folia Anglistika 16, no. 1 (21) (April 15, 2020): 9–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2020.16.1.009.
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In this article I discuss the comparative method in formal linguistics when applied to word order phenomena in Italian, English and German. I argue that the comparison has to rest on sound theoretical basis in order to reach interesting conclusions. These languages might prima facie all look Subject- Verb-Object – SVO – languages, with some puzzling issues arising in German. At a closer look however, I will show that English and Italian pattern together as their basic word order – i.e., SVO – goes, as opposed to German, an SOV language. Conversely, English and German pattern together with respect to a property typical, even if not exclusively so, of Germanic languages, i.e. Verb Second.
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Arakelyan, Rouzanna. "Child or Grown-up: Language Universals and Language Particula." Armenian Folia Anglistika 1, no. 1-2 (1) (October 17, 2005): 57–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2005.1.1-2.057.
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Language is a means of human cognitive activity. The knowledge of the natural process of the acquisition of each language, namely of a foreign one, is highly necessary in language learning process. The record of the characteristics of child language development acquires much significance in this regard. Evidently, each child is unique. However, the sequence of the development stages of native and foreign languages is almost the same and quite predictable, while the psycholinguistic investigation of a foreign language learning among grown-ups demonstrates evident differences. The acquisition of a foreign language differs not only in the content of the material studied, but also in the new linguistic nature of the coordination of the knowledge.
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Fedora, Gasparetti, and Dinah Hannaford. "Genitorialitŕ a distanza: reciprocitŕ e migrazione senegalese." MONDI MIGRANTI, no. 1 (June 2009): 111–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/mm2009-001006.
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- Though the migratory experience offers opportunities for new kinds of practices, traditions, and family dynamics to develop, it also often replicates patterns and codes of behavior that already exist in the mi-grant's home culture. Senegalese migrants residing in Italy, as in other parts of the diaspora, tend to send their children to be raised by relatives in Senegal. Their motives are various and sundry: some cite the economic benefits, others the desire for the inculcation of Sene-galese values and Wolof language, still others the reluctance to have their children grow up "spoiled" as they view Italian children. For these reasons and others, Senegalese parents rarely raise their chil-dren in Italy, opting instead to leave them behind with relatives in Senegal. Yet this practice among Senegalese parents long predates contemporary Senegalese migration to Europe. Instead it follows a longstanding custom of receiving young family members into the home that draws on the fundamental Senegalese value of teranga, of-ten translated inadequately as hospitality. Teranga turns on the idea that the mother who hosts a visitor ensures that her children will find help and welcome whenever they need it. Senegalese families are duty-bound to accept even distant relatives into their homes for short, long and undetermined periods of time without question. When em-ployment or scholastic opportunities are presumed to be better in a different part of Senegal in which a relative resides, Senegalese need not think twice about presenting themselves to those relatives with full assurance of being offered a place to stay. In the migrant context, this kind of teranga works both ways. Though migrants abroad must be ready to receive their relatives in the host country at a moment's notice, they may also send home their children to be reared without fear of imposition. Thus the concept of parent-ing from afar and children "left behind" among the Senegalese is by no means an outgrowth of contemporary migratory practices. Instead it reflects a core Senegal-ese value and extends a practice that long predates Senegal's migratory history. This paper will highlight how care arrangements for children are organized in this particular Senegalese context of teranga, and how children of migrants experience the separation from their parents.Keywords family dynamics, second generations, tradition, socialization processes
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Gevorgyan, Kristine. "On the Cultural Peculiarities of Proverbs and Their Classification." Armenian Folia Anglistika 5, no. 1-2 (6) (October 15, 2009): 214–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2009.5.1-2.214.
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Recent observations of the interrelation between language and culture guided scholars to the sphere of Paremiology. Making up a specific layer of the word stock, proverbs contain valuable information about national traditions and worldview.Proverbs can be found in all languages and they have been investigated from different perspectives.The present article attempts to illustrate the paremiological expressions and classify them in the system of the language and culture.
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Gevorgyan, Gurgen. "Slang in Its Cultural Environment." Armenian Folia Anglistika 4, no. 1-2 (5) (October 15, 2008): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2008.4.1-2.020.
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The non-standard vocabulary of the English language has always been an interesting area of research. The 20th century saw an increase in this interest. Non-standard words and phrases started finding their ways into dictionaries, linguistic journals and even daily newspapers. However, it is still difficult to draw a strict distinction between the standard and non-standard vocabulary, since, as is known, language undergoes constant development. As a result, the same word that used to be considered as non-standard about 20 years ago, can be viewed as quite standard nowadays. Slang is a non-standard form of English. It is a lexical novelty in a certain cultural environment. It is equally existent in all languages and cultures. Many Indo-European languages are rich in slang words and phrases.
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Gasparyan, Seda, Astghik Chubaryan, and Ruzanna Karapetyan. "Oral and Written Academic Discourse: Models of Investigation." Armenian Folia Anglistika 7, no. 1 (8) (April 15, 2011): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2011.7.1.019.
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The growth in inter-cultural relations among global academic circles and the globalization of scientific thought it entails, have led to a conflict between various cultures and languages, which is more evident at the language level. English has become a universal language of communication and serves as a tool to disseminate the results of scientific research conducted in various countries, to exchange ideas, to accept or decline hypotheses. One could suppose that English used in a given branch of science includes cultural and linguistic characteristics of scholars of various nationalities which need to be specified and investigated thereby contributing to the further development of scientific communication in the field. The present article offers two models of written and oral academic discourse.
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Golysheva, Valentina. "Intercultural Language Competence and Business Communication." Armenian Folia Anglistika 10, no. 1-2 (12) (October 15, 2014): 107–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2014.10.1-2.107.
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Teaching modern languages for specific purposes requires the investigation of the interaction of language and socio-cultural aspects, the knowledge of which predetermines successful acquisition of intercultural competence by the students. Students studying business language should be recommended to do the research in the theory of language planning namely Political Correctness (PC). Observing politeness strategy, i.e. avoiding direct imposition either in conditional requests or imperatives might be useful for students studying English to be learned as value one. To reduce the level of imposition most English officials prefer to stick to the strategy of disguised imperatives, i.e. rephrase their public messages by employing specific periphrastic expressions in a statement/request/notice/announcement. In the teaching process priorities should be given to introducing the situational language, the speech etiquette in the English and Russian communities; teaching students to assess social responses.
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Karapetyan, Lili, and Lusine Danukhyan. "Insights into the Category of Gender (with special reference to gender-marking avoidance strategies)." Armenian Folia Anglistika 16, no. 1 (21) (April 15, 2020): 33–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2020.16.1.033.
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Gender is an issue that has long preoccupied linguists, and the category of gender is one of the still unsolved puzzles of linguistic science. There has never been a complete agreement between scientists with regard to gender origin, nor there is unanimity of opinion as to its function in different language systems and, in general, to its definition. The present study focuses on the origin and historical development of the category of gender, classification of languages according to gender types, the peculiarities of gendered and genderless languages, gender-marking avoidance strategies. Through the comparative method of analysis English and Armenian gender systems are compared with an aim to reveal the similarities and differences in terms of functions, gender indicators in proverbs, as well as types of reference.
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Syufi, Yafed, Made Budiarsa, I. Wayan Simpen, and Made Sri Satyawati. "Correlation of irires noun towards sago: An ecolinguistic study." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 5, no. 4 (July 31, 2019): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v5n4.696.
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This study focuses on the aspects of language and culture that correlate with sago processing systems and compound words. It also explains the language phenomena from the aspect of sago dimensions as a configuration of Irires community life. As it is observed, the Irires speakers distinguish between afes (male sago) lexicon and afaj (female sago) lexicon, as part of their life. In addition to the type of sago, there is also an agen-gen (navel) of mendow (sago) which is identical to humans. Likewise, the container used to accommodate the starch or the upper sago starch is called afes (male) and the lower part is called afaj (female).
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Arakelyan, Rouzanna. "Language and Cognition." Armenian Folia Anglistika 3, no. 2 (4) (October 15, 2007): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2007.3.2.051.
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The interrelation between language and cognition can be considered from various perspectives. The role of the language in human mental activity is described by the type of his/her activity when it is also linked with cultural characteristics. The active role of the language in thinking is conditioned by the fact that the existence of a language serves as a precondition for cognitive thinking. Language is also the basis of cognition. Social experience is a means to form individual thinking. Language affects the process of the acquisition of knowledge and organization, and its two functions possess a cognitive nature.
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Charchoghlyan, Lala. "Shakespeare’s Bawdy Language." Armenian Folia Anglistika 3, no. 1 (3) (April 16, 2007): 125–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2007.3.1.125.
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Unlike the functional manifestations of literary language, which do not go beyond the norms of the literary standard, the language of verbal art ensures its uniqueness through the features typical of one’s individual style and in this case, with the use of bawdy language. However, this freedom which is quite characteristic of a literary text and is widely used by Shakespeare, is by no means absolute and pointless. The abundant use of vulgar and obscene words and expressions is conditioned by the specificities of the English language, the national-aesthetic mentality of the language speakers and the development of historical and cultural characteristics. Each character speaks a language which matches his/her way of thinking, his world view, public image and environment. This makes Shakespearean characters alive and bright.
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Gasparyan, Seda. "English as Lingua Franca." Armenian Folia Anglistika 11, no. 1 (13) (April 15, 2015): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2015.11.1.007.
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The article highlights English as Lingua Franca and emphasizes the importance of teaching Language for Special Purposes (LSP). The content of the notion “lingua-franca” is analysed on the basis of a number of linguistic works devoted to the English language status. English as Lingua Franca refers to the use of English as a medium of communication between speakers of different languages. Nowadays, contacts between people with different cultural backgrounds are becoming more frequent and much closer. Highly developed skills in intercultural communication have a significant bearing on the quality of relationships between people of various nationalities and cultures. In recent years ELF has been studied by many linguists interested in how its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar are different from other varieties of English. ELF has now established itself as a major and expanding field of academic research. Its interconnections with teaching and other disciplines are being currently discussed, acknowledged and investigated.
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Aghajanyan, Narine. "Conceptual Metaphors in Theory and Practice." Armenian Folia Anglistika 13, no. 1-2 (17) (October 16, 2017): 83–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2017.13.1-2.083.
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Languages can be viewed as metaphorical due to their linguistic and cultural background. The connection between the image and abstract meaning can be understood in cognitive terms using a particular concept of metaphor. The notion “metaphor” can be applied to any linguistic unit used in an indirect sense. In contrast to previous theories of metaphor, conceptual metaphor theory proposes that metaphor is not just a language unit but a fundamental part of human thought. The aim of this paper is to bring forward different aspects of theoretical studies on this important issue and show how new realities in politics automatically cause metaphorization of language.
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Khachatryan, Armine. "Sound Symbolism and Onomatopoeia." Armenian Folia Anglistika 11, no. 1 (13) (April 15, 2015): 58–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2015.11.1.058.
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The function, realization and the role of sound-symbolic phenomenon can vary in some languages. The study of sound symbolism and onomatopoeia in Armenian, Russian and English showed that highly expressive forms of language occur not only in daily conversation, advertising, newspapers and magazines, but also in creative literature: children’s poems, stories and great works of art. As a powerful stylistic device they realize an impact upon the reader or listener and evoke certain emotional expressively evaluative reactions. The comparative analysis of this phenomenon demonstrates that the word is heard differently in different cultures.
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abass, shimaa sayed. "Prof. Dr. Afaf Al-Sayed Zaidan: Zulekha Persian Language." International Journal of Library and Information Sciences 10, no. 2 (April 1, 2023): 293–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijlis.2023.309112.
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Imanguliyeva, Mehri. "Modern Azerbaijan by Afad Gurbanov problems of literary language." Terminology Issues, no. 2 (2023): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.59849/2663-8967.2023.2.45.
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Munson, Benjamin, Natasha Lackas, and Kiana Koeppe. "Individual Differences in the Development of Gendered Speech in Preschool Children: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 65, no. 4 (April 4, 2022): 1311–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2021_jslhr-21-00465.
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Purpose: We evaluated whether naive listeners' ratings of the gender typicality of the speech of children assigned male at birth (AMAB) and children assigned female at birth (AFAB) were different at two time points: one at which children were 2.5–3.5 years old and one when they were 4.5–5.5 years old. We also examined whether measures of speech, language, and inhibitory control predicted developmental changes in these ratings. Method: A group of adults ( N = 80) rated single-word productions of 55 AMAB and 55 AFAB children on a continuous scale from “definitely a boy” to “definitely a girl.” Children's productions were taken from previous longitudinal study of phonological development and vocabulary growth. As part of that study, children completed a battery of standardized and nonstandardized tests at both time points. Results: Listener ratings for AMAB and AFAB children were significantly different at both time points. The difference was larger at the later time point, and this was due entirely to changes in the ratings of AMAB children's speech. A measure of language production and a measure of inhibitory control predicted developmental changes in these ratings, albeit only weakly, and not in a consistent direction. Conclusions: The gender typicality of AMAB and AFAB children's speech is perceptibly different for children as young as 2.5 years old. Developmental changes in perceived gender typicality are driven by changes in the speech of AMAB children. The learning of gendered speech is not constrained or facilitated by overall speech and language skill.
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Ohanyan, Marianna. "MYENGLISHLAB AS ONE OF THE GROUNDBREAKING BLENDED LEARNING TOOLS." Armenian Folia Anglistika 17, no. 2 (24) (December 8, 2021): 85–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2021.17.2.085.
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Online learning is one of the most rapidly growing trends in educational use of digital technologies. The article touches upon the importance of MyEnglishLab as one of the newest tools for blended English language learning. Due to the pandemics of the 2020 many learners began to implement different tools of digital technology to an increasing extent. An effective and appropriate tool for learning English aimed at developing communication skills allows to increase individualization of educational activity, to optimize mastering language structures and grammatical rules, and also to overcome some obstacles of both oral and written competences of the students. An interactive platform is one of the newest blended learning tools that combines different English language learning activities in a variety of formats. It is a web-based system providing learners 24 hours a day, 7 days a week online access to the teacher-managed course content, supports different learning styles, provides students with a large number of supervised practices. The platform MyEnglishLab contains lexical and grammatical tasks, audio materials listening and reading as well as watching videos. Tasks are performed in three stages: the formation of lexical and grammatical skills; improvement of language skills and using those phrases and sentences that were consolidated in the first stage in the dialogue with a computer; development of skills to use lexical and grammatical knowledge acquired during the previous two stages. The platform has options for choosing the number of attempts to perform both test exercises and training. In this article we present a research carried out among the freshmen of Yerevan State University Faculty of European Languages and Communication.
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Galstyan, Anahit. "SOCIOLINGUISTIC FEATURES OF CLICKBAIT IN ENGLISH AND ARMENIAN WEBSITES." Armenian Folia Anglistika 20, no. 1 (29) (May 15, 2024): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2024.20.1.25.
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In this highly developed technological world, newspapers and news shows have mostly been replaced by online news. The world-renowned news agencies, as well as social media platforms, report their news online, providing information to the public. However, readers are sometimes disappointed to find a misleading headline with quite different web content. This deceiving technique called clickbait uses ambiguity to provoke the user into clicking a link. The present article explores the sociolinguistic strategies employed in Armenian and English clickbait headlines by bloggers, vloggers, and news reporters. The study aims at revealing how language is manipulated to engage and persuade users in online media. The exploration conducted from a sociolinguistic perspective unveils the intricate interplay between language, culture, and societal norms in English and Armenian clickbait headlines. The findings contribute to the understanding of how linguistic styles, word choices, and persuasive techniques vary across different languages and cultures. It also emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between clickbait and regular headlines, as well as the potential impact of clickbait on trust and reader engagement in the digital media landscape.