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Bruce, Aisha Aiko, Adrienne D. Witol, Haley Greenslade, Mandeep Plaha, and Mary Anne Venner. "How Do New Immigrant Families (African Continent) with a Child with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Experience the Western Medical System?" Blood 128, no. 22 (2016): 3529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v128.22.3529.3529.

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Abstract INTRODUCTION: New immigrant families from continental Africa account for an increasing proportion of pediatric patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in Canada and North America. As families enter the western medical system they face a myriad of tests and medications as well they encounter language barriers, endless forms and large teams. Previous experiences with healthcare also influence families' expectations and adjustment.There is no published data exploring the experiences of these families to help guide practice. Resources such as the Canadian Pediatric Society guide on immigr
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Shatokhina, Viсtoriya Sergeevna. "On the history of studying proverbs in the Swahili language." Litera, no. 5 (May 2021): 174–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.5.32946.

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The subject of this research is the African paremiology. The object is the history of studying proverbs in the Swahili language. The author examines the chronology of studying this field of linguistics by Western European and African scholars, cites their major works, and describes the peculiarities of their scientific views. Special attention is given to the works of the founders of African paremiology, as well as the perspective of modern scholars of Tanzania and Kenya upon the scientific heritage of proverbs and sayings of the Swahili language. The article employs the theoretical research m
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Mwaipape, Joshua, and Gastor Mapunda. "When an Ethnic Language Sneaks into the Tanzanian Rural Secondary School Classroom: How Teachers and Learners Perceive Multilingualism." Jarida la Kiswahili 85, no. 1 (2022): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.56279/jk.v85i1.6.

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Most African countries have adopted the languages of ex-colonial masters as media of instruction (MoI). In Tanzania, English has remained the sole MoI from secondary to post-secondary education despite the endemic multilingualism in the country. Such a monolingual tendency in a multilingual setting has raised debates on how learners manage their studies through English, a language which is scarcely used in their everyday conversation. Thus, the current paper investigates learners’ strategic use of ethnic languages (EL) Nyakyusa and Swahili in the learning of the English language and other sele
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Wójtowicz, Beata. "SOCJOKULTUROWY ASPEKT POWITAŃ W JĘZYKU SUAHILI." AFRYKA 50, no. 50 (2020): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.32690/afr50.5.

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The Socio-Cultural Context of Greetings in Swahili1 Today most linguists agree that language and culture are tightly connected. It is also argued that in order to communicate successfully, we need to achieve a level of socio-cultural competence along with an ability to use the grammar and the lexicon of a particular language. There are many kinds of cultural norms and values that one has to obey, as there may be fundamental communication and discourse differences between one language and another. This paper is primarily concerned with some issues of discourse strategies and pragmatics of Afric
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Wanjawa, Barack, Lilian Wanzare, Florence Indede, Owen McOnyango, Edward Ombui, and Lawrence Muchemi. "Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks." Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 36, no. 2 (2023): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/jlcl.36.2023.243.

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Indigenous African languages are categorized as under-served in Natural Language Processing. They therefore experience poor digital inclusivity and information access. The processing challenge with such languages has been how to use machine learning and deep learning models without the requisite data. The Kencorpus project intends to bridge this gap by collecting and storing text and speech data that is good enough for data-driven solutions in applications such as machine translation, question answering and transcription in multilingual communities. The Kencorpus dataset is a text and speech c
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Zahran, Aron, and Eva-Marie Bloom Ström. "Against expectations – the rise of adverbs in Swahili phasal polarity." Studies in African Linguistics 51, no. 2 (2023): 295–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.51.2.129687.

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This article provides a first analysis of the expression of phasal polarity in Swahili. Phasal polarity (henceforth PhP) refers to linguistic concepts which express the phase of a given situation in relation to a prior and/or subsequent phase, as well as expressing whether a certain situation holds or not. These concepts, represented here in English as a meta-language with already, no longer, still and not yet, are interrelated in interesting ways and form a semantic sub-system. In contrast to many other Eastern Bantu languages, we show that the dedicated expressions for PhP concepts in Swahil
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Barasa, Sandra Nekesa, and Maarten Mous. "Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32, no. 1 (2017): 48–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.32.1.02bar.

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Youth ‘languages’ are an important topic of research in the domain of linguistic change through language contact because the change is rapid and observable and also because the social dimension of change is inevitably present. Engsh, as a youth language in Kenya expresses not only modernity and Kenyan identity but also, the status of being educated, and it differs in this respect from Sheng, the dominant Kenyan youth language. The element of Engsh that expresses this aspect most directly is the use of a grammatical system from English whereas Sheng uses Swahili. In lexicon, Engsh draws upon Sh
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Nyarko, Gifty Akua, and Rita Ndonibi. "The Journey of Adoption and Adaptation: A Reading of The Tight Game, Sola Owonibi’s Translation of Akinwumi Isola’s Ó Le Kú." Yoruba Studies Review 7, no. 1 (2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v7i1.131458.

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Language has long defined the discourse of African literature. Africa’s colonial experience has left its enduring legacy of colonial languages which have been imbibed to the detriment of the usage of indigenous African languages. Accordingly, even in the creation of literary works, the African writer has had to resort to the colonial languages as the medium of expression. Since it is implausible to think of the literature of a people outside the context of their languages, there has arisen a debate on the appropriate language that can be used in African literary expressions. One school of thou
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Anderson, Cheryl AM, Kate E. Murray, Sahra Abdi, et al. "Community-based participatory approach to identify factors affecting diet following migration from Africa: The Hawaash study." Health Education Journal 78, no. 2 (2018): 238–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0017896918814059.

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Introduction: African women who migrate to the USA have a rich tradition of using herbs and spices to promote health. We conducted formative research on nutritional practices among East and North African women in the USA, focusing on whether traditional herbs and spices could support adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Methods: In all, 48 adult African women living in San Diego, California participated in focus groups in July 2015. Inclusion criteria were 18 years or older, and able to answer focus group questions in one of five languages: Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Swahili or Eng
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Helmy, M. Ridwan. "Bilingualism In African And Middle East Communities In New York." Jurnal Kependidikan: Jurnal Hasil Penelitian dan Kajian Kepustakaan di Bidang Pendidikan, Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran 4, no. 1 (2018): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.33394/jk.v4i1.903.

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This paper is aimed at arguing chapter 9, 10 and 11 of the book “Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond a Heritage Language in a Global City by Ofelia Garcia, ZeenaZakharia, and BaharOtcu”, published in 2013. Arguing those three chapters, the reviewer explore the issue deeply, give arguments on the strengths and weaknesses of their analysis,and finally, the reviewer takes a conclusion.Examining these chapters, the reviewer identified that in chapter 9, the author showed the issue interestingly. Also, the authors were very good at presenting the issue of heritage language ini
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Namukwaya, Harriett. "Beyond Translating French into English: Experiences of a Non-Native Translator." TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies 5, no. 1-2 (2014): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.21992/t9r906.

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This paper documents a non-native translator’s experience in an academic setting, focusing on the challenges of translating different kinds of texts from French into English at the Institute of Languages, Makerere University. Makerere Institute of Languages (MIL) is composed of four clusters: Foreign Languages, African Languages, Communication Skills and Secretarial Studies, Service Courses and Soft Skills (Wagaba 97). The services offered include teaching language skills and culture to university students and the general public; communication skills to people who want to improve in English, F
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Demolin, Didier, and Bernard Teston. "Labiodental Flaps in Mangbetu." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 26, no. 2 (1996): 103–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300006149.

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Labiodental flaps exist in several African languages, and were first described by Doke (1931) in a study of Shona. Westermann and Ward (1933: 76) quote data from Tucker, who notes labiodental flaps in Kreish, a Central Sudanic language of the Sara-Bongo-Baguirmi group. In the same group of languages, Thomas (1981: 262) claims to find them in Bongo-Gberi and in Binga-Kara. Thomas defines these sounds as “vibrantes labiodentales” (see also Caprile 1981: 238). Hoffman (1963) and Ladefoged (1964) both identify these sounds in Margi. Cloarec-Heiss (1981: 225) reports such sounds in Banda, but descr
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Akhtar Gul, Muhammad Ghulam Shabeer, Rija Ahmad Abbasi, and Abdul Wahab Khan. "Africa’s Poverty and Famines: Developmental Projects of China on Africa." PERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY 3, no. 1 (2022): 165–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/pjh.v3i1.109.

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Poverty exists without any face; it is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon. Poverty and famines existed before human civilization and culture. Human culture existed 0.07 million years ago, and civilization began 6000 years ago. In a modern civilized society, ‘first famine in human history occurred in 1708 B.C. From 1708 BC to 1878 AD, 350 famines occurred in various spheres of the world. The Encyclopedia Britannica listed 31 main famines from prehistoric to the 1960s. The sub-continent has also faced eleven severe famines from 1769-70 to 1943, and about 40.9 million people have died due to t
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Okome Engouang, Liliane Surprise. "La traducción en la enseñanza virtual de las lenguas gabonesas." Traduction et Langues 21, no. 2 (2022): 58–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/translang.v21i2.906.

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Translation in The E-learning of Gabonese Languages
 The definitions that revolve around language are as plural as the functions that are assigned to it. For some people, it is an instrument of communication. Other people see it as an instrument for analysing the world, as a personal and social identification. Considering the evolution of societies, the preponderant place of language in any development process is more and more indisputable. Gabon, a sub-Saharan African country, is multilingual. This multilingualism is characterised by a double linguistic heritage. On the one hand, it is m
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Mesthrie, Rajend, and Ellen Hurst. "Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28, no. 1 (2013): 103–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.28.1.04mes.

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This paper examines the status of an informal urban variety in Cape Town known as Tsotsitaal. Similar varieties, going by a plethora of names (Flaaitaal, Iscamtho, Ringas) have been described in other South African cities, especially Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban (see also Sheng in Kenyan cities). This paper seeks to describe the essential characteristics of Cape Town Tsotsitaal, which is based on Xhosa, and to argue for its continuity with similar varieties in other South African cities. However, this continuity eventually calls into question many of the previous assumptions in the litera
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Sharma, Devyani, and John R. Rickford. "AAVE/creole copula absence." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24, no. 1 (2009): 53–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.24.1.03sha.

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This study confirms the robustness of the finding in the literature on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and creole English (especially in the Caribbean) that omission of copular and auxiliary be varies systematically according to predicate type. Verbal predicates are associated with the highest rates of copula absence and following NPs with the lowest rates; following adjectives or locatives show intermediate rates (see Rickford 1998:190). Although this pattern is highly consistent, convincing explanations for it remain elusive. A recurrent suggestion (McWhorter 2000; Winford 1998, 2
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Mulamba, Kashama. "Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 19, no. 4 (2009): 543–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.19.4.03mul.

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Most cross-linguistic studies of speech acts have dealt mainly with two languages, a native language and a second or foreign language (Carrell and Konneker 1981; Castello 1981; Blum-Kulka 1982; Daikuhura 1986; Eisenstein 1986; Wieland 1989; Chen Rong 1993, 2001; Sifianou 2001; Lee 2004, 2005). Neither have they dealt with an African language as the first language. The present study investigates a multilingual situation where the native speakers of Ciluba, French, and English are compared to the trilingual speakers of the three languages in terms of the realization of the speech acts of apologi
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Okpadah, Stephen Ogheneruro. "Social Reality and Cultural Propagation in Funke Akindele-Bello’s Jenifa’s Diary." Przegląd Krytyczny 3, no. 1 (2021): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pk.2021.3.1.6.

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Apart from originating contemporary norms and cultures among its viewers, Nigerian television series portray new and emerging constructions and practices that the populace is able to identify with. Recently, one television series that has become popular in Nigeria is Jenifa’s Diary. Its popularity stems from its incorporation of the Nigerian English, the British English and the indigenous Yoruba language, as well as the antics and codification(s) of the eponymous character, Jennifer. Her utility of a distinctive English language which deviates from the Nigerian Pidgin and the British English,
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O'Brien, Donal Cruise. "The shadow-politics of Wolofisation." Journal of Modern African Studies 36, no. 1 (1998): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x97002644.

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The relationship between language and politics in the African post-colony remains obscure and underexamined. Here we withdraw into a poorly lit area, an area of potentialities, where new political shapes may emerge as the outcome of half-conscious choices made by very large numbers of people. Language choices in the first place: the expansion of the Wolof language in Senegal, principally though far from exclusively an urban phenomenon, is to be seen in a context where the individual may speak several languages, switching linguistically from one social situation to another. Such multilingualism
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Madell, Madelynne. "Schooling Superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape." Multilingual Margins: A journal of multilingualism from the periphery 2, no. 2 (2018): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/mm.v2i2.75.

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This study is a working paper which addresses the need for the accom-modation of linguistic diversity and mixed linguistic repertoires in the classroom context, due to the rise and changes in migration patterns, as a result of globalization. More specifically, it focuses on linguistic diversity and mixed linguistic repertoires amongst pupils in post- apartheid South African classrooms and investigates how the borrowing of linguistic features by teachers and learners can be used as linguistic resources in the classroom context. By investigating how an informal variety of speech, the borrowing o
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Kakarla, Dr Ujjwala. "Psychological Realism in the Arrow of God --- Chinua Achebe." Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 8, no. 09 (2023): 284–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sjhss.2023.v08i09.006.

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Chinua Achebe’s, the third novel, Arrow of God centralizes around the struggle for power and authority between the African and Colonial traditions. Ezeulu, the Chief Priest of God Ulu is the protagonist who is in quest of wielding an absolute power throughout the novel. It is the study of psychology of power which incessantly switches directions, but can never be wholly acquired or seized. Achebe wavers between representing the good sides and bad sides of Christianity and Igbo religion reflecting his own ambivalence and split consciousness. To apply Freud’s theory to Achebe, we can say that Ac
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Bhasin, Pooja Gogia, Theresa Durana, Nay Yee Wint Kyaw, et al. "The perception and emotional reaction to genetic test results in cancer patients in an immigrant enriched hospital." Journal of Clinical Oncology 40, no. 16_suppl (2022): e24128-e24128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2022.40.16_suppl.e24128.

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e24128 Background: Genetic testing detects hereditary cancer syndromes and guides prophylactic surgery, intensive surveillance and family member testing. Despite its surge in use, research studies exploring the cancer patient’s perception and emotional reactions of their genetic test result is sparing. We hypothesized that the patient’s perception may be influenced by their ethnicity, educational level and English speaking status. Methods: Cancer patients who had genetic testing performed in the last 10 years were consented to take a questionnaire survey. The correctness of understanding their
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Henning, Elizabeth. "Views of childhood and knowledge of children." South African Journal of Childhood Education 4, no. 2 (2014): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v4i2.200.

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<p>In a country where there is a consistent loud outcry about school achievement of youth<br />in the final school examination in Grade 12, attention has recently shifted to children in<br />the primary school. The very founding of this journal was motivated by a deep concern<br />about research in childhood education and children’s lives. Questions were being asked<br />about what happens in the first years of schooling, about the suitability of the national<br />curriculum for such a diverse population, about specialised research in the field of<br /&gt
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Vierke, Clarissa. "Of Patience and Pity: Rewriting and Reciting the Widely Travelled Islamic Poem “The Hawk and the Dove” in East Africa." Islamic Africa, December 19, 2022, 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21540993-20220003.

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Abstract The Swahili poem of “The Hawk and the Dove” (Kozi na Ndiwa) has long been popular along the Swahili coast. In brief, the poem tells the story of the prophet Musa, who is put to the test by the angels Mikaili and Jibrili, disguised as a dove and a hawk. The dove, fleeing the famished hawk, finds refuge in the folds of Musa’s clothes. The bird of prey, approaching Musa, claims its right to the dove, since it is hungry. Musa faces a dilemma: he understands the hawk’s argument but is also full of pity for the dove. When he finally offers to cut off a part of his own right thigh to feed th
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Nakatumba‐Nabende, Joyce, Claire Babirye, Peter Nabende, et al. "Building Text and Speech Benchmark Datasets and Models for Low‐Resourced East African Languages: Experiences and Lessons." Applied AI Letters, March 26, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ail2.92.

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ABSTRACTAfrica has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well represented in the existing natural language processing ecosystem. African languages lack essential digital resources to effectively engage in advancing language technologies. There is a need to generate high‐quality natural language processing resources for low‐resourced African languages. Obtaining high‐quality speech and text data is expensive and tedious because it can involve manual sourcing and verification of data sources. This paper discusses the process taken to curate and annotate text and speech datasets f
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Wanjawa, Barack W., Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Florence Indede, Owen Mconyango, Lawrence Muchemi, and Edward Ombui. "KenSwQuAD – A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language." ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, January 17, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3578553.

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The need for Question Answering datasets in low resource languages is the motivation of this research, leading to the development of Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset, KenSwQuAD. This dataset is annotated from raw story texts of Swahili low resource language, which is a predominantly spoken in Eastern African and in other parts of the world. Question Answering (QA) datasets are important for machine comprehension of natural language for tasks such as internet search and dialog systems. Machine learning systems need training data such as the gold standard Question Answering set devel
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Gitau, Catherine, and Vukosi Marivate. "Textual Augmentation Techniques Applied to Low Resource Machine Translation: Case of Swahili." Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 4, no. 01 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.55492/dhasa.v4i01.4446.

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In this work we investigate the impact of applying textual data augmentation tasks to low resource machine translation. There has been recent interest in investigating approaches for training systems for languages with limited resources and one popular approach is the use of data augmentation techniques. Data augmentation aims to increase the quantity of data that is available to train the system. In machine translation, majority of the language pairs around the world are considered low resource because they have little parallel data available and the quality of neural machine translation (NMT
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Lindfors, Anne-Marie. "Afrikkalaistettu englanti käännösongelmana." Mikael: Kääntämisen ja tulkkauksen tutkimuksen aikakauslehti 3 (December 1, 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.61200/mikael.130612.

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The global spread of the English language has led to the development of regional varieties of English around the world. This article investigates how West African novelists use English that has been influenced by African languages and how such varieties of English have been translated into Finnish. Common features of Africanised English are loan words, coinage, collocational and semantic extension, and expressions and idioms translated from African languages. The focus of this article is on Nigerian writers with Igbo as their mother tongue. Four Igbo novelists have had their work published in
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Simmons, Solon. "Struggle and Martyrdom: Abusive Power and Root Narrative in the Aftermath of the Eritrean Revolution." Peace and Conflict Studies, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46743/1082-7307/2020.1686.

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In this paper I have applied root narrative theory to the case of conflict in Eritrea, a small African country along the Red Sea that has been embroiled in conflict with its neighbors and the international community on and off since at least 1961. Examining a small sample of representative texts from the government of Eritrea and from international critics of the regime, I demonstrate that these parties—different moral languages that make it almost impossible for each side to see the point of view of the other. Using the semiotic structure of the story system implied by root narrative theory I
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van Norren, Dorine Eva. "The ethics of artificial intelligence, UNESCO and the African Ubuntu perspective." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, December 22, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-04-2022-0037.

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Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the relevance of worldviews of the global south to debates of artificial intelligence, enhancing the human rights debate on artificial intelligence (AI) and critically reviewing the paper of UNESCO Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) that preceded the drafting of the UNESCO guidelines on AI. Different value systems may lead to different choices in programming and application of AI. Programming languages may acerbate existing biases as a people’s worldview is captured in its language. What are the implications for AI wh
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Miller, Andie. "Multiculturalism and Shades of Meaning in the New South Africa." M/C Journal 5, no. 3 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1963.

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I hate being misunderstood. I guess we all do, but it goes with the territory. I use the word coloured, and he seems offended: 'We Brits don't say 'coloured'. It's regarded as patronising. We say black, if we say anything. And if we do it's for reasons of simple practicality. It doesn't matter. ' Of course, what he seems to be missing, is that the word coloured in South Africa now refers less to skin colour, and more to a distinct cultural group, with it's own language (a dialect of Afrikaans), food (of Malay origin), and music. To say black in this context would be inaccurate, and cause confu
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Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw. "“Holding Living Bodies in Graveyards”: The Violence of Keeping Ethiopian Manuscripts in Western Institutions." M/C Journal 23, no. 2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1621.

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IntroductionThere are two types of Africa. The first is a place where people and cultures live. The second is the image of Africa that has been invented through colonial knowledge and power. The colonial image of Africa, as the Other of Europe, a land “enveloped in the dark mantle of night” was supported by western states as it justified their colonial practices (Hegel 91). Any evidence that challenged the myth of the Dark Continent was destroyed, removed or ignored. While the looting of African natural resources has been studied, the looting of African knowledges hasn’t received as much atten
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Ricks, Thomas, Katharine Krebs, and Michael Monahan. "Introduction: Area Studies and Study Abroad in the 21st Century." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 6, no. 1 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v6i1.75.

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Area Studies and Study Abroad in the 21st Century 
 The future now belongs to societies that organize themselves for learning. 
 - Ray Marshall and Marc Tucker, Thinking for a Living, xiii 
 Few today would argue with the conviction that nearly every phase of our daily lives is shaped and informed by global societies, corporations, events and ideas. More than ever before, it is possible to claim that we are increasingly aware of the dynamic power and penetrating effects of global flows on information, technology, the sciences, the arts, the humanities, and languages. Borderless,
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Murunga, Godwin. "0 - Editorial Samir Amin (1931-2018): A Titan has Gone Home to Rest." CODESRIA Bulletin, no. 03-04 (July 12, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.57054/cb03-042018211.

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The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) learned with immense shock and sadness of the passing on of Professor Samir Amin on Sunday, 12th August 2018. Subsequently, Prof. Samir Amin’s body was interned at Père Lachaise in Paris on 1st September 2018 at a site provided by the French Communist Party. The Council was represented at the burial by Prof. Fatow Sow and Dr. Cherif Sy; two members of the CODESRIA community who have worked with Samir Amin for a while. For CODESRIA, this marks nothing less than the end of an era in the history of African social res
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Lillie, Jonathan. "Tackling Identity with Constructionist Concepts." M/C Journal 1, no. 3 (1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1712.

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Did you wake up this morning wondering: "What really is my true identity?" Or have you ever seen your favorite television news program do a spot on cultural identity? "Today we ask you the viewer about your cultural identity." Not likely. It is certainly not vital for each of us to be able to expound upon our personal identity issues and definitions (you don't necessarily have to talk about identity to know yourself and to be happy and well-rounded). And yet, with this said, a casual visit to the local "mall" for a dose of people/culture-watching is all that it might take to be reminded of the
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Hutcheon, Linda. "In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production." M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2620.

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 Biology teaches us that organisms adapt—or don’t; sociology claims that people adapt—or don’t. We know that ideas can adapt; sometimes even institutions can adapt. Or not. Various papers in this issue attest in exciting ways to precisely such adaptations and maladaptations. (See, for example, the articles in this issue by Lelia Green, Leesa Bonniface, and Tami McMahon, by Lexey A. Bartlett, and by Debra Ferreday.) Adaptation is a part of nature and culture, but it’s the latter alone that interests me here. (However, see the article by Hutcheon and Bortolotti for a discussi
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Bowers, Olivia, and Mifrah Hayath. "Cultural Relativity and Acceptance of Embryonic Stem Cell Research." Voices in Bioethics 10 (May 16, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/vib.v10i.12685.

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Photo ID 158378414 © Eduard Muzhevskyi | Dreamstime.com ABSTRACT There is a debate about the ethical implications of using human embryos in stem cell research, which can be influenced by cultural, moral, and social values. This paper argues for an adaptable framework to accommodate diverse cultural and religious perspectives. By using an adaptive ethics model, research protections can reflect various populations and foster growth in stem cell research possibilities. INTRODUCTION Stem cell research combines biology, medicine, and technology, promising to alter health care and the understanding
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Söilen, Klaus Solberg. "The argument that “there is nothing new in the competitive intelligence field”." Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business 9, no. 3 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.37380/jisib.v9i3.511.

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It is often heard, and even more often seen written, for example on social media, that that there is nothing new in the competitive intelligence (CI) field. There are no new ideas, the ideas that are being expressed are the same old, there is no development, there is, at best, stagnation. Even the old claim that CI is dead[1] reappears with a certain frequency[2]: “Competitive intelligence as a profession is dead. There are fewer and fewer full-time, dedicated CI professionals in organizations, and even fewer legitimate CI departments or functions. The need to understand an organization’s comp
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Gerrand, Vivian, Kim Lam, Liam Magee, Pam Nilan, Hiruni Walimunige, and David Cao. "What Got You through Lockdown?" M/C Journal 26, no. 4 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2991.

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Introduction While individuals from marginalised and vulnerable communities have long been confronted with the task of developing coping strategies, COVID-19 lockdowns intensified the conditions under which resilience and wellbeing were/are negotiated, not only for marginalised communities but for people from all walks of life. In particular, the pandemic has highlighted in simple terms the stark divide between the “haves” and “have nots”, and how pre-existing physical conditions and material resources (or lack thereof), including adequate income, living circumstances, and access to digital an
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Molnar, Tamas. "Spectre of the Past, Vision of the Future – Ritual, Reflexivity and the Hope for Renewal in Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Climate Change Communication Film "Home"." M/C Journal 15, no. 3 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.496.

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About half way through Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film Home (2009) the narrator describes the fall of the Rapa Nui, the indigenous people of the Easter Islands. The narrator posits that the Rapa Nui culture collapsed due to extensive environmental degradation brought about by large-scale deforestation. The Rapa Nui cut down their massive native forests to clear spaces for agriculture, to heat their dwellings, to build canoes and, most importantly, to move their enormous rock sculptures—the Moai. The disappearance of their forests led to island-wide soil erosion and the gradual disappearance of ara
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Jones, Timothy. "The Black Mass as Play: Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out." M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.849.

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Literature—at least serious literature—is something that we work at. This is especially true within the academy. Literature departments are places where workers labour over texts carefully extracting and sharing meanings, for which they receive monetary reward. Specialised languages are developed to describe professional concerns. Over the last thirty years, the productions of mass culture, once regarded as too slight to warrant laborious explication, have been admitted to the academic workroom. Gothic studies—the specialist area that treats fearful and horrifying texts —has embraced the growi
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Herb, Annika. "Non-Linear Modes of Narrative in the Disruption of Time and Genre in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1607.

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While Young Adult dystopian texts commonly manipulate expectations of time and space, it is largely in a linear sense—projecting futuristic scenarios, shifting the contemporary reader into a speculative space sometimes only slightly removed from contemporary social, political, or environmental concerns (Booker 3; McDonough and Wagner 157). These concerns are projected into the future, having followed their natural trajectory and come to a dystopian present. Authors write words and worlds of warning in a postapocalyptic landscape, drawing from and confirming established dystopian tropes, and af
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