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Journal articles on the topic "African American oral tradition"

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Turner, Darwin T. "African-American History and the Oral Tradition." Books at Iowa 53 (November 1990): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/0006-7474.1186.

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Grace, Columbus M. "Exploring the African American Oral Tradition: Instructional Implications for Literacy Learning: The African American oral tradition provides opportunities for students to engage with texts that reflect their cultural identities." Language Arts 81, no. 6 (2004): 481–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la20042931.

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This article reveals how literacy practices based on the African American oral tradition might enhance the literacy engagement of young adolescents, particularly African American youth. Through an examination of the cultural/historical relevance of the oral tradition, this article provides readers with a wealth of literature, poetry, and hip-hop resources. Practical vignettes suggest approaches to using the tradition in language arts instruction.

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Ellison, Mary, and Gayl Jones. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3507954.

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Fabi, M. Giulia, and Gayl Jones. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." American Literature 65, no. 2 (1993): 391. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927378.

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Dubey, Madhu. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." Studies in American Fiction 21, no. 1 (1993): 120–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1993.0026.

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Kulii, Elon A., and Gayl Jones. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." Journal of American Folklore 106, no. 419 (1993): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/541352.

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Neal, Ronald B. "Savior of the Race: The Messianic Burdens of Black Masculinity." Exchange 42, no. 1 (2013): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341250.

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Abstract This paper is concerned with the messianic construction of manhood within African American communities in North America and its normative imprint in shaping and measuring masculinity among African Americans. In this essay, messianic manhood is treated as a utopian construction of masculinity that is found in liberal and conservative constructions of Protestant Christianity. In examining this tradition of manhood, representative messianic men are interrogated who have participated in and have been shaped by this tradition. Overall, messianic manhood is inconceivable apart from an oral

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Bly, Antonio T. "In Pursuit of Letters: A History of the Bray Schools for Enslaved Children in Colonial Virginia." History of Education Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2011): 429–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2011.00353.x.

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The pursuit of literacy is a central theme in the history of African Americans in the United States. In the Western tradition, as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others have observed, people of African descent have been written out of “culture” because they have been identified with oral traditions. In that setting, literacy signifies both reason and civilization. Performance in print earned the laurel of humanity. Consequently, for well over 200 years, the African-American literary tradition has been defined as one in which books talked and a few slave authors achieved, at once, voice and signific

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M. Moore, Nathan. "Folk Tradition at the Creole Red River." International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science 04, no. 07 (2023): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.56734/ijahss.v4n7a2.

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Recognized by the National Park Service, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park area of Natchitoches, Louisiana serves as a main intercultural backdrop of history as American, French, Spanish, and Native American traditions once occupied its banks. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project, a byproduct of the New Deal documented new oral histories from the region. Nineteenth-century folklore from the Natchitoches Cane River area reveals that French, Cajun, and more importantly African influences cast allegories for the spiritual journey they interpreted. My paper uses African or

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Okakpoturi, Ejedaferu Samson. "Literature of the Black Diaspora and the Performance of Caribbean and African American Aural Texts." Tropical Journal of Arts and Humanities 5, no. 1 (2023): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.47524/tjah.v5i1.18.

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The second half of the twentieth century, witnessed a new kind of literature often referred to as "Literature of the Black Diaspora; its appearance and acceptance into mainstream world literature was not without hostilities: overcame what seems like a futile effort, and now a major world literature. One salient feature of literature of the black Diaspora is the representation of aural texts in its composition and reception. This paper is therefore designed to examine the concept and performance of Afro-Caribbean and African American aurality as African legacy and constituent of the Black Liter

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African American oral tradition"

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Lewis, Lynn C. "Towards an ethnography of voice in Amerafrican culture : an oral traditional register in four women's narratives /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946273.

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Berman, Julia E. "African American tropes in popular film /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091899.

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Crichton, Iain William. "Ghostwriting a tool for getting oral-urban church leaders in print /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Reed, Caroliese Frink. "Aesthetic Re-Creation and Regeneration in African American Storytelling: The Works of Torrence, Goss and Alston." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/362263.

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African American Studies<br>Ph.D.<br>From the animal and trickster tales told by enslaved Africans in America to current education and performance based storytelling by contemporary African American storytellers, this study traces the aesthetics and epistemologies of the collaborative African diasporic oral expressive traditions. Through systematic analysis based on data derived from bibliographic and archival sources, interviews, and participant observation, it delineates the progression of the repertoire and content of Blackstorytelling through the lives and works of national and internation

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Byrd, Gayle. "The Presence and Use of the Native American and African American Oral Trickster Traditions in Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends and American Indian Stories and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/258606.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>The Presence and Use of the Native American and African American Oral Trickster Traditions in Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends and American Indian Stories and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman My dissertation examines early Native American and African American oral trickster tales and shows how the pioneering authors Zitkala-Sa (Lakota) and Charles W. Chesnutt (African American) drew on them to provide the basis for a written literature that critiqued the political and social oppression their peoples were experiencing. The dissertation comprises 5 chapters. Chapter 1 defi

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Perez, Jeannina. "Matrilineal memories : revisionist histories in three contemporary Afro-American women's novels." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1127.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English

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Patterson, Tracy J. "Privileging privilege the African American middle class novel: a genre in the African American literary tradition." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1996. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2868.

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This paper asserts the existence of the African American middle class novel as a genre in the African American literary tradition that has heretofore been neglected by literary critics. The premise of this argument is that conventional African American literary studies privilege novels concerned with the African American folk to the exclusion of portrayals of African Americans of middle and upper socio-economic class and cultural groups. A study of the Modem Language Association's catalogue of African American criticism and a review of novels widely accepted as representative of African Americ

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Bozeman, Terry. "The good cut the barbershop in the African American literary tradition /." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04242007-132217/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Thomas McHaney, committee chair; Carolyn Denard, Mary Zeigler, committee members. Electronic text (192 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 5, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-192).

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Cochran, David Maurice. "Revolutionary antislavery birth of an American prophetic tradition /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3331247.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 23, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4379. Adviser: John L. Lucaites.

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McLendon, Howard A. "Postmodern homiletics and authority in the African American preaching tradition." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Books on the topic "African American oral tradition"

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Jones, Gayl. Liberating voices: Oral tradition in African American literature. Harvard University Press, 1991.

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1961-, Mardis Jas, ed. KenteCloth: Southwest voices of the African diaspora : the oral tradition comes to the page. University of North Texas Press, 1997.

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1936-, Jackson Bruce, ed. Get your ass in the water and swim like me: African American narrative poetry from oral tradition. Routledge, 2004.

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Elizabeth, Fitch Nancy, ed. How sweet the sound: The spirit of African American history. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2000.

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Coleman, Will. Tribal talk: Black theology, hermeneutics, and African/American ways of "telling the story". Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

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Callahan, John F. In the African-American grain: Call-and-response in twentieth-century Black fiction. 2nd ed. Wesleyan University Press, 1990.

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1908-, Courlander Harold, ed. A treasury of Afro-American folklore: The oral literature, traditions, recollections, legends, tales, songs, religious beliefs, customs, sayings, and humor of peoples of African descent in the Americas. Marlowe, 1996.

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Gates, Henry Louis. The signifying monkey: A theory of African-American literary criticism. Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Callahan, John F. In the African-American grain: Call-and-response in twentieth- century Black fiction. 2nd ed. Wesleyan University Press, 1990.

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Gates, Henry Louis. The signifying monkey: A theory of Afro-American literary criticism. Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "African American oral tradition"

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Randolph, Michele, and Maliek Lewis. "Battles, Raps, Cappin’, The Dozens: African-American Oral Traditions of Insult." In African Histories and Modernities. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15617-5_7.

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Ayoh’Omidire, Félix. "The Re-invention of Myths, Legends, Panegyrics and Folktales in the Afro-Latin-American Diaspora." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_38.

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Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal. "Oral Tradition and Identity." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_20.

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Tamari, Tal. "Epic Tradition." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_9.

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Fixico, Donald L. "Oral Tradition and Traditional Knowledge." In The American Indian Mind in a Linear World, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032710228-2.

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Wester, Maisha L. "Conclusion: African American Gothic—Uncovering a (Not So) New Tradition." In African American Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_8.

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Morgan, Winifred. "African Americans and an Enduring Tradition." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_2.

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Owonibi, Sola, and Richard Bampoh-Addo. "Oral Tradition as Commitment in Modern African Poetry." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_35.

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Saboro, Emmanuel. "War Songs: Slavery, Oral Tradition, and Identity Construction." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_22.

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Wind, Tonia Leigh. "Oral Tradition and Cultures in Dialogue: Ondjango Angolano and Jongo da Serrinha." In African Histories and Modernities. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15617-5_11.

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Conference papers on the topic "African American oral tradition"

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Streete, Annicia, Brendan Harmon, and Nicholas Serrano. "Endangered African American Burial Grounds of the Lower Mississippi: Acts of Reparation and Preservation." In 113th Annual Meeting Paper Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.113.81.

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African American cemeteries and burial grounds are an invaluable part of the historical geography of the Louisiana River Parishes. Originally built peripheral to plantations along the Mississippi River, today these sites occupy remnant parcels of isolated land surrounded by corporate agricultural and industrial facilities. Climate change, industrial development, precarious land-tenure records, and a dwindling population of descendants continually threaten these cultural landscapes, and allowing these sites to succumb to time and land development would perpetuate the centuries-long process of s

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Osei-Tutu, Araba. "African Oral Tradition of Storytelling as Narrative Analysis in Narrative Inquiry Methodological Approach." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1585843.

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Thomas III, Daniel. "African American Oral Histories of Warrenton, Virginia, Segregated Rosenwald Schools." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1576817.

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Yang, Yaohua, Qiuyin Cai, Xiao Ou Shu, William J. Blot, Wei Zheng, and Jirong Long. "Abstract 4931: Prospective study of oral microbiome and colorectal cancer risk in low-income and African American populations." In Proceedings: AACR Annual Meeting 2017; April 1-5, 2017; Washington, DC. American Association for Cancer Research, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2017-4931.

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Molina-Villegas, Alejandro. "Mayasoundex: A Phonetically Grounded Algorithm for Information Retrieval in the Maya Language." In LatinX in AI at North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference 2024. Journal of LatinX in AI Research, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.52591/lxai2024062111.

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This paper introduces Mayasoundex, a phonetically grounded algorithm tailored for information retrieval in the Maya language. Mayasoundex utilizes phonetic principles to generate consistent codes for words with similar sounds, promoting phonetic similarity in information retrieval tasks. Drawing upon the distinctive phonological characteristics of the Maya language, the algorithm offers a robust approach to indexing and searching linguistic data. The proposed method addresses challenges posed by the oral tradition and the recent adoption of Latin characters in Maya writing, providing a versati

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Bethea, Traci N., Lynn Rosenberg, Chi-Chen Hong, et al. "Abstract B31: Oral contraceptive use in relation to breast cancer subtypes in African American women: Results from the AMBER Consortium." In Abstracts: Sixth AACR Conference: The Science of Cancer Health Disparities; December 6–9, 2013; Atlanta, GA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp13-b31.

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Hogrefe, Jeffrey, and Scott Ruff. "Connecting to the Archive: Counter-gentrification in Central Brooklyn." In 110th ACSA Annual Meeting Paper Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.110.78.

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Weeksville was founded in 1838 by formerly enslaved persons and freedmen who sought to create a self-sustaining utopian community in Brooklyn, New York. Distinguished by its urbanity, size, and relative physical and economic stability, the community provided sanctuary for self-emancipated persons from Southern slave plantations, and for free Black people escaping the violence of New York City’s Draft Riots in 1863. The second largest African American community in the U.S. was absorbed by the forces of real estate development in New York City. After almost fifty years of community led persisten

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KUTIL, EMILY. "Black Bottom Street View: Mobilizing a City Archive." In 2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.21.26.

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This paper discusses Black Bottom Street View, an immersive representation of an historic African American neighborhood in Detroit that was destroyed during Urban Renewal. The exhibit recreates Black Bottom’s street grid and envelops visitors within panoramic views constructed from stitched archival photographs of the neighborhood. The exhibit’s light- weight, tensile, and flat-packed structures allow the project to be deployed across the city and region. In spatializing the photographs, Black Bottom Street View transforms the archive from a stack of disconnected snapshots into a shifting but

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Nishat, Zurwa, Tara Pellegrino, and Robert Steer. "Outcomes in Type II Diabetes Patients through the Covid 19 Pandemic A Retrospective Chart Review." In 27th Annual Rowan-Virtua Research Day. Rowan University Libraries, 2023. https://doi.org/10.31986/issn.2689-0690_rdw.stratford_research_day.54_2023.

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Context: The COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity for urgent expansion of telemedicine services as providers continued to supply longitudinal care to patients. Patients with type II diabetes were vulnerable to serious infection with COVID-19 as well as disruption in management of their chronic disease. Objective: To delineate the outcomes in type II diabetes patients through the COVID-19 pandemic by a retrospective chart review in which disease management was evaluated through HbA1c levels and BMI. Methods: This retrospective chart review included adult T2DM patients receiving care

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Reports on the topic "African American oral tradition"

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Гарлицька, Т. С. Substandard Vocabulary in the System of Urban Communication. Криворізький державний педагогічний університет, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3912.

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The article is devoted to substandard elements which are considered as one of the components in the system of urban forms of communication. The Object of our research is substandard vocabulary, the Subject is structural characteristics of the modern city language, the Purpose of the study is to define the main types of substandard vocabulary and their role in the system of urban communication. The theoretical base of our research includes the scientific works of native and foreign linguists, which are devoted to urban linguistics (B. Larin, M. Makovskyi, V. Labov, T. Yerofeieva, L. Pederson, R

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At the Gates of Paradise: Art of the Guaraní of Paraguay. Inter-American Development Bank, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008210.

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The exhibit unites a number of artistic expressions of the Guaraní Indians of Paraguay, from the colonial period to the present. Include 65 pieces including statuary, both sacred and secular, photographs, videos, and contemporary art. All of the art works allow for a better understanding of the Guaraní culture that transmits knowledge fundamentally through an oral tradition, but has also come to assimilate a number of influences, modifying them to their own needs. The exhibition was open at the Art Gallery of the Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank on September 2005.

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