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PANDIN, DONATA S., and YULIANUS R. MATANA. "Karakteristik Tanaman Muda Plasma Nutfah Kelapa Sawit Asal Kamerun." Buletin Palma 16, no. 1 (2016): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.21082/bp.v16n1.2015.8-22.

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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">ABSTRAK </span></p><p>Penelitian dilakukan dari bulan Januari 2012 sampai dengan Agustus 2014, di Kebun Percobaan Sitiung, Kabupaten Dharmasraya, Provinsi Sumatera Barat. Bahan tanaman yang digunakan adalah plasma nutfah kelapa sawit asal Kamerun sebanyak 99 aksesi, yang ditanam dalam blok tunggal dengan sistem baris tanpa ulangan pada Desember 2011. Setiap aksesi terdiri atas 5 - 10 tanaman sehingga seluruh tanaman berjumlah 959 tanaman. Hasil pengamatan menunjukkan bahwa hampir semua koleksi asal Kamerun, memiliki posisi anak
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Evangeline Agwa Fomukong, SEINO. "Pragmastylistic Naming and Describing in Two Cameroonian Plays: What God Has Put Asunder by Victor Epie’ngome and Family Saga by Bole Butake." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 5 (2017): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.5p.11.

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In pragmatics, language is understood in context, taking into consideration the speaker, the addressee, their interaction, background information and the situation of communication. Therefore the speakers make utterances taking account of the context of communication and the cognitive environment between them and the audience. The perspective of the Relevance Theory is that the speaker gives a clue to the audience on their intention which will help the audience infer into the message with the consideration of the context. This study is based on the assumption that in naming and describing in t
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Bakel, M. A., H. Esen-Baur, Leen Boer, et al. "Book Reviews." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 141, no. 1 (1985): 149–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003405.

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- M.A. van Bakel, H. Esen-Baur, Untersuchungen über den vogelmann-kult auf der Osterinsel, 1983, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 399 pp. - Leen Boer, Bronislaw Malinowski, Malinowski in Mexico. The economics of a Mexican market system, edited and with an introduction by Susan Drucker-Brown, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982 (International Library of Anthropology)., Julio de la Fuente (eds.) - A.P. Borsboom, Betty Meehan, Shell bed to shell midden, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1982. - H.J.M. Claessen, Peter Geschiere, Village communities and the state. Changing relation
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Alobwede, Charles Esambe. "LINGUISTIC HYBRIDITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES IN CAMEROON." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 9, no. 4 (2021): 501–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v9.i4.2021.3852.

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Language politics and the issue of official bilingualism have been factors in Cameroonian politics since the country obtained independence from its respective colonial masters. These phenomena have impacted not only on the operation of state institutions, but also on the cultural and linguistic make-up of the society. This has given birth to cultural and linguistic and perspectives in development. French and English, the two official languages of the country and a legacy of colonialism have created linguistic and sometimes political, social and cultural barriers. Bilingualism, a policy adopted
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Atanga, Lilian Lem. "A gendered academy – women’s experiences from higher education in Cameroon." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021, no. 267-268 (2021): 27–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-0080.

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Abstract Women make up less than 20% of the faculty in Cameroon and continue to work in male-dominated workplaces against a context of patriarchal gendered ideologies. This paper explores women’s experiences in the academy in Cameroon, highlighting the way they navigate these challenges to position themselves in higher education. Through autoethnography and critical discourse analysis, it examines literature within the area of gendered discourse and texts on higher education, and the author’s personal experiences as a female academic in Cameroon. It is argued in this paper that the challenges
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Tante, Achu Charles, and Charles A. Tante. "Teachers’ approaches to language classroom assessment in Cameroon primary schools." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 1, no. 1 (2013): 114–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v1i1.77.

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Assessment has a huge impact on ESL primary pupils, in part, because on the curriculum English is both a subject and also a language of learning all the other subjects. For children still acquiring L1 it is daunting sometimes to be expected to understand concepts in L2. It may be difficult then to gather information to make an impartial judgement with regards to a pupil’s language level. This study is a preliminary inquiry that attempts to find out teachers’ approaches to classroom assessment in Cameroon primary schools. Using a qualitative open-ended question the researcher finds out three ma
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Ouafeu, Yves Talla Sando. "Intonational marking of new and given information in Cameroon English." English World-Wide 28, no. 2 (2007): 187–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.28.2.05oua.

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Studies on English intonation have shown that native English speakers consistently accent new information and deaccent given information in the discourse structure (Brown 1983; Fowler and Housum 1987; etc.). On the other hand, findings on the intonation of some non-native English varieties, Nigerian English (Gut 2003, 2005) and Indian English (Gumperz 1982) for example, suggest that speakers of these varieties of English rarely deaccent given information in the discourse structure, hence making both types of information prominent. This study reports findings of the analyses of the intonational
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O'Neill, Paul, and Gladis Massini-Cagliari. "Linguistic prejudice and discrimination in Brazilian Portuguese and beyond." Journal of Language and Discrimination 3, no. 1 (2019): 32–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jld.37344.

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In this article we make a distinction between the prejudice and discrimination towards (a) different languages and their speakers and (b) different non-standard varieties of the same language and their speakers, and argue that while the discrimination and prejudice towards (a) have been denounced by international institutions and both national and international laws are in place to guarantee the rights of speakers of different languages, the same protection has not been afforded to speakers of non-standard varieties of a language. We examine a specific case of this type of linguistic prejudice
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Kouega, Jean Paul, and Mildred Aseh. "Pidgin in Creative Works in English in Cameroon." Sustainable Multilingualism 10, no. 1 (2017): 98–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sm-2017-0005.

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Summary This study, which deals with code-switching and language choice in multilingual contexts, describes the use of Pidgin in creative works in English in Cameroon, with the focus on the forms that this language takes in the works, the types of characters who are made to speak this language, and the functions that this language plays in these works. The data comprise three plays and two novels, all published between 2000 and 2006 by experienced writers who have a good command of English and yet make their characters speak in Pidgin. The analysis shows that Pidgin in the corpus takes the for
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Sala, Bonaventure M. "Writing in Cameroon pidgin English: begging the question." English Today 25, no. 2 (2009): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078409000133.

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ABSTRACTCameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is increasingly becoming an important language in the country, judging from its use in the media (both private and public), in literary texts, the Bible and other religious materials. The soaring of writing in CPE has been hailed by many as a positive signal for the spread and survival of the language, but this begs the question of how it should be written. Formal statements made so far on how CPE should be written are divergent (see Todd, 1986; Mbangwana, 1983; Ayafor, 1996 and Schr¨der, 2003) and in practice the present situation of CPE writing is marred
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Enonchong, Nelson. "The Harmonization of Business Law in Africa: Is Article 42 of the OHADA Treaty a Problem?" Journal of African Law 51, no. 1 (2007): 95–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855306000222.

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AbstractThe primary function of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) is to modernize and harmonize the business laws of member states. The wider objective of OHADA is to attract foreign investment into the OHADA zone and to achieve economic integration in Africa as whole, as other African countries join OHADA. However, article 42 of the treaty establishing OHADA stipulates that French is the working language of the organization. This paper argues that this provision does not facilitate the goal of economic integration in Africa and that in one member state,
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Bird, Steven. "Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems." Written Language and Literacy 2, no. 1 (1999): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.2.1.02bir.

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Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking). Another approach is to do phonemic tone analysis, and then make heavy use of diacritic symbols to distinguish the "tonemes" (shallow marking). While orthographies based on either system have been successful, this may be thanks to our ability to manage inadequate orthographies, rather than to any intrinsic advantage which is afforded by one or the other approach. In many cases, practical experience with both kinds
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Mous, Maarten. "TAM-full object-verb order in the Mbam languages of Cameroon." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 57 (January 1, 2014): 72–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.57.2014.420.

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Nen and Nyokon are unique among the Bantu languages in allowing full nominal objects between the tense/aspect marker and the verb. Despite the fact that the two languages are neighbours and related they make different use of this positional option. In Nen the position is the default one for objects and the post-verbal position renders an object discrete and suitable for quantified objects and for contrast. In Nyokon the position before the verb is functionally equivalent to the one after the verb. The difference is related to the fact that Nyokon allows the preverbal object only in certain ten
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Ayonghe, Lum Suzanne, and Godson Enowmbi Besong. "Subtitling as a Vector for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Patriotism." Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences 16, no. 3 (2021): 263–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jcas.v16i3.6.

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This paper is aimed at showing that subtitling can be used to foster bilingualism and patriotism in Cameroon. The objectives are to investigate how deeply rooted the practice of audiovisual translation is in local media outlets, focusing on how it can help in promoting bilingualism; promote the use of subtitling in the Cameroonian audiovisual media landscape; and assess the pivotal role of the audiovisual translator in this sector. A sample of 151 persons was used. Questionnaires were administered to respondents and stakeholders were interviewed in two media houses: Hi TV and CRTV. Hi TV is ba
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Daheur, Jawad. "‘They Handle Negroes Just Like Us’: German Colonialism in Cameroon in the Eyes of Poles (1885–1914)." European Review 26, no. 3 (2018): 492–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798718000194.

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This paper explores the Polish opinion about German colonialism in Africa in connection with the perception of Prussian rule ‘at home’. In late Imperial Germany, Prussian Poles tended to look at the German ventures in Africa with a very critical eye. Their interest in Cameroonian issues was due to the fact that both Poles and Cameroonians were facing the same difficulties at the same time, namely German attempts to eliminate local languages in schools and to take control of the lands. By establishing a link between Polish and Cameroonian suffering, Polish patriots wanted to make Poles aware of
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Whitehouse, Marlies. "The language of numbers." AILA Review 31 (2018): 81–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aila.00014.whi.

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Abstract Wider parts of society-at-large are not fluent in the language of numbers, and financial literacy in particular is low in many countries (OECD, 2014). This paper shows how research on financial communication with and for practitioners (Cameron, Frazer, Rampton, & Richardson, 1992, p. 22) can foster intra-lingual translation in the financial sector, which increases financial texts’ communicative potential and finally enables laypersons to better understand the language of numbers. Such an increased understanding allows individuals to set up investment plans for their current and fu
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Moslemi Nezhad Arani, Saieed. "Teaching and Researching Computer-Assisted Language Learning." GiST Education and Learning Research Journal, no. 17 (December 17, 2018): 260–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.26817/16925777.421.

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The prominence of technology has always been booming since computers generated new lanes for human to make use of high-tech for many different purposes. Utilizing computers for learning goals, among many, is one of the main concerns followed by educational issues in teaching and learning, especially, of a new language. Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is known as a branch of language studies which focuses on teaching and learning of a new language through applications of computers in language learning contexts. Many books, articles, reviews, and etc. being published regularly conside
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Fornkwa, Marcel Jaff. "English Sentence Patterns in Cameroonian Book Blurbs." International Journal of English Language Studies 3, no. 5 (2021): 05–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijels.2021.3.5.2.

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This paper examines Cameroonian book blurbs, with a focus on identifying and analysing the various sentence patterns used by Cameroonian blurb writers in producing their blurbs. Data for the study are collected from 80 blurbs of books written and published in Cameroon, and in English. The books are randomly selected from four main fields: language, social sciences, hard sciences and fiction. The data are analysed based on the multidimensional perspective of the genre theory; with an inclination on the grammatical features of genres. The analyses focus not only on presenting the frequencies of
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Moore, David Chioni. "Ferdinand Oyono's Une vie de boy on the World Literary Stage." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 1 (2013): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.1.101.

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Some of you know that my grandfather was a cook for the British in Kenya, and though he was a respected elder in his village, his employers called him “boy” for much of his life.—Barack Obama, president of the United States, speaking to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra, 11 July 2009How do you say khaki in fourteen languages? assuming that the answer is, in most cases, more or less khaki, what might that word mean? This question occurred to me three years ago as I was sitting in my Minnesota office with a student—a brilliant sophomore economics major from Hanoi—trying to understand a thorny text
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Fomukong, SEINO Evangeline Agwa. "Stylistic Processes of Meaning-Making: An Analysis of Selected Newspaper Headlines of 20 May 2017 Celebration in Cameroon." International Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 4 (2017): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v9i4.11793.

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Stylisticians analyse the style of language by looking systematically at the formal features of a text, and determining their functional significance for the interpretation of the text in question. Texts can be classified as either literary or non-literary. In looking at texts, this study has examined the power headlines wield in the discourse of the 20 May 2017 representation in three newspapers in Cameroon. It has presented a coherent system of meanings, historically located, supporting institutions, reproducing power relations and having ideological effects, portraying the relationship betw
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Hà, Tú Anh, and Andrea Roxana Bellot. "Assessing storytelling as a tool for improving reading comprehension in the EFL primary classroom." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 19, no. 2 (2020): 169–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-11-2018-0096.

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the effect of storytelling in helping children read and comprehend English in primary schools. Design/methodology/approach The study includes 44 eight-year-old students, being divided into two equal groups. They are Catalan/Spanish native speakers, and their English level is pre-A1 (CEFR). The two groups studied the same topic with similar vocabulary and grammatical structures; however, only the experimental group learnt with storytelling. A pre-test, a post-test and exercises were implemented and analyzed by using the Mann–Whitney test, the Wilcoxon signed r
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Leech, Ashley A., David D. Kim, Joshua T. Cohen, and Peter J. Neumann. "Are low and middle-income countries prioritising high-value healthcare interventions?" BMJ Global Health 5, no. 2 (2020): e001850. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001850.

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IntroductionSince resources are finite, investing in services that produce the highest health gain ‘return on investment’ is critical. We assessed the extent to which low and middle-income countries (LMIC) have included cost-saving interventions in their national strategic health plans.MethodsWe used the Tufts Medical Center Global Health Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry, an open-source database of English-language cost-per-disability-adjusted life year (DALY) studies, to identify analyses published in the last 10 years (2008–2017) of cost-saving health interventions in LMICs. To assess wh
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Yamaguchi, Mirian Ueda, Josiane Kelly de Barros, Rosane Clys de Barros Souza, Marcelo Picinin Bernuci, and Leonardo Pestillo de Oliveira. "O papel das mídias digitais e da literacia digital na educação não-formal em saúde (The role of digital media and digital literacy in non-formal health education)." Revista Eletrônica de Educação 14 (January 15, 2020): 3761017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14244/198271993761.

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Digital health literacy involves the individual's ability to effectively interpret, evaluate and use health information obtained through digital media, enabling them to make decisions and have greater autonomy over their health. Considering the increasing use of digital media as a source of health information for the population, the present study aimed to evaluate the digital health literacy level of individuals who use social media. The study was conducted with a sample of 423 individuals using a digital questionnaire to obtain socioeconomic data, and the eHealth literacy scale (eHeals) instr
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Hoon Leh, Oliver Ling, Mohd Hafizol Che Mohd Noor, Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi, and Siti Nur Afiqah Mohamed Musthafa. "SOCIAL IMPACT OF AGRO-TOURISM ON LOCAL URBAN RESIDENTS. CASE STUDY: CAMERON HIGHLANDS, MALAYSIA." PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL 16, no. 6 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.21837/pmjournal.v16.i6.267.

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Agro-tourism is a new tourism product introduced in Malaysia based on agricultural attraction. Cameron Highlands is the largest agricultural based highland resort area in Malaysia. The cool climate, farms, and natural environment make Cameron Highlands a famous tourist destination. Agrotourism has become one of the important economic sectors in Cameron Highlands. The study is aimed to examine the social impact of the agro-tourism industry on the local urban residents in Cameron Highlands. A questionnaire survey was carried out among the local urban residents to examine the social impact based
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Brooks, Ian, Mario Kossmann, and Virginie Kossmann. "Educating for Change." Project Management Research and Practice 5 (January 30, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/pmrp.v5i0.5869.

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The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework was adopted by every member state of the United Nations in 2015, and, albeit not legally binding, it is arguably one of the greatest steps of humanity to address the identified problems of our time, covering a wide range of topics such as environmental protection, equal opportunities, education, eradication of diseases, famine, poverty, slavery and child labour. Both in terms of its comprehensive scope and its worldwide support, this framework arguably represents one of the most significant international frameworks in human his
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NABOULA, Lili. "Les emprunts du gbàyà au français : enjeux et usages au cameroun." FRANCISOLA 4, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/francisola.v4i1.20343.

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RÉSUMÉ. Ce travail a pour objectif de présenter les causes pour lesquelles le gbàyà emprunte au français. Il présente également les différents types d’emprunts. Se faisant, il donne des informations sur le processus d’usage de ces emprunts lors de leurs intégrations dans la langue gbàyà. Par l’utilisation de la grammaire descriptive appliquée à la théorie du structuralisme, ainsi qu’à la mise en relief de l’observation participante, l’on a pu les analyser et les décrire. L’analyse des données porte sur un corpus qui est constitué des mots gbàyà. Ce corpus vient des entretiens que l’on a eu ave
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"Language learning." Language Teaching 36, no. 3 (2003): 202–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444803221959.

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03–438 Appel, Christine (Dublin City U., Ireland; Email: christine.appel@dcu.ie) and Mullen, Tony (U. of Groningen, The Netherlands). A new tool for teachers and researchers involved in e-mail tandem language learning. ReCALL (Cambridge, UK), 14, 2 (2002), 195–208.03–439 Atlan, Janet (IUT – Université Nancy 2, France; Email: janet.atlan@univ-nancy2.fr). La recherche sur les stratégies d'apprentissage appliquée à l'apprentissage des langues. [Learning strategies research applied to language learning.] Stratégies d'apprentissage (Toulouse, France), 12 (2003), 1–32.03–440 Aviezer, Ora (Oranim Tea
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Mathilde, M. M., W. A. André, and K. N. P. Paul. "From the experience of planning a life with diabetes to the mechanisms of the management of illness." European Journal of Public Health 29, Supplement_4 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz186.207.

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Abstract Background In the context of chronic diseases, it is now recognized that experiences of planning a new life with diabetes are very informative, and are a source of knowledge that can be used to improve patient care and quality of life. However, the professionals in health and the patients’ therapeutic education are still struggling to translate this knowledge into their practices or to make use of it, as long as its forms remain largely unknown and it is not known how to identify these. Objective: The study aims to identify these knowledges and to report on how it is produced, based o
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Stockwell, Stephen. "Theory-Jamming." M/C Journal 9, no. 6 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2691.

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 “The intellect must not only desire surreptitious delights; it must become completely free and celebrate Saturnalia.” (Nietzsche 6) Theory-jamming suggests an array of eclectic methods, deployed in response to emerging conditions, using traditional patterns to generate innovative moves, seeking harmony and syncopation, transparent about purpose and power, aiming for demonstrable certainties while aware of their own provisional fragility. In this paper, theory-jamming is suggested as an antidote for the confusion and disarray that typifies communication theory. Communicatio
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Hatcher, Caroline. "Corporatising Character." M/C Journal 4, no. 5 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1933.

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One might rightly think that the first female television chief executive in Australia, Maureen Plavsic, would have some important and useful advice and words of wisdom about what being successful in business involves. Apparently, Ms Plavsic considers being 'passionate' about what you do is central to being successful in contemporary business practice (Kitney 26). At first glance, this might seem a perfectly natural contemporary way to talk. The purpose of this paper is to step back from that idea of 'passion' as a driver of contemporary practice and to consider how it became inevitable that th
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Lerner, Miriam Nathan. "Narrative Function of Deafness and Deaf Characters in Film." M/C Journal 13, no. 3 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.260.

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Introduction Films with deaf characters often do not focus on the condition of deafness at all. Rather, the characters seem to satisfy a role in the story that either furthers the plot or the audience’s understanding of other hearing characters. The deaf characters can be symbolic, for example as a metaphor for isolation representative of ‘those without a voice’ in a society. The deaf characters’ misunderstanding of auditory cues can lead to comic circumstances, and their knowledge can save them in the case of perilous ones. Sign language, because of its unique linguistic properties and its la
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Pedersen, Isabel, and Kirsten Ellison. "Startling Starts: Smart Contact Lenses and Technogenesis." M/C Journal 18, no. 5 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1018.

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On 17 January 2013, Wired chose the smart contact lens as one of “7 Massive Ideas That Could Change the World” describing a Google-led research project. Wired explains that the inventor, Dr. Babak Parviz, wants to build a microsystem on a contact lens: “Using radios no wider than a few human hairs, he thinks these lenses can augment reality and incidentally eliminate the need for displays on phones, PCs, and widescreen TVs”. Explained further in other sources, the technology entails an antenna, circuits embedded into a contact lens, GPS, and an LED to project images on the eye, creating a virt
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Mitchell, Peta, and E. Sean Rintel. "Editorial." M/C Journal 5, no. 4 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1968.

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This time last year we proposed the theme of the 'loop' issue to the M/C collective because it sounded deeply cool, satisfying our poststructuralist posturings about reflexivity and representation, while also tapping into everyday cultural objects and practices. We expected that the 'loop' issue would generate some interesting and varied responses, and it did. We received submissions about music, visual art, language, child development, pop-cultural artefacts, mathematics and culture in general. These explorations of disparate fields seemed, however, to be tied together by a common thread: the
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Vella Bonavita, Helen. "“In Everything Illegitimate”: Bastards and the National Family." M/C Journal 17, no. 5 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.897.

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This paper argues that illegitimacy is a concept that relates to almost all of the fundamental ways in which Western society has traditionally organised itself. Sex, family and marriage, and the power of the church and state, are all implicated in the various ways in which society reproduces itself from generation to generation. All employ the concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy to define what is and what is not permissible. Further, the creation of the illegitimate can occur in more or less legitimate ways; for example, through acts of consent, on the one hand; and force, on the other. Th
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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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Carpenter, Richard. "The Heart of the Matter." M/C Journal 10, no. 3 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2658.

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 During his speech in Plato’s The Symposium, Aristophanes explains that humans were originally round, composed of two people joined together in a perfect sphere with four arms, four legs, and two faces. Unfortunately, humans grew arrogant and ambitious; as a result, Zeus punished them by cleaving them in two. Now altered from their natural form, humans yearn for their former selves: “It is from this situation, then, that love for one another developed in human beings. Love collects the halves of our original nature, and tries to make a single thing out of the two parts so a
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Milton, James, and Theresa Petray. "The Two Subalterns: Perceived Status and Violent Punitiveness." M/C Journal 23, no. 2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1622.

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From the mid-twentieth century, state and public conceptions of deviance and crime control have turned increasingly punitive (Hallett 115; Hutchinson 138). In a Western context, criminal justice has long been retributive, prioritising punishment over rehabilitation (Wenzel et al. 26). Within that context, there has been an increase in punitiveness—understood here as a measure of a punishment’s severity—the intention of which has been to help restore the moral imbalance created by offending while also deterring future crime (Wenzel et al. 26). Entangled with the global spread of neoliberal capi
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Ryan, Robin, and Uncle Ossie Cruse. "Welcome to the Peoples of the Mountains and the Sea: Evaluating an Inaugural Indigenous Cultural Festival." M/C Journal 22, no. 3 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1535.

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IntroductionFestivals, according to Chris Gibson and John Connell, are like “glue”, temporarily sticking together various stakeholders, economic transactions, and networks (9). Australia’s First Nations peoples see festivals as an opportunity to display cultural vitality (Henry 586), and to challenge a history which has rendered them absent (587). The 2017 Australia Council for the Arts Showcasing Creativity report indicates that performing arts by First Nations peoples are under-represented in Australia’s mainstream venues and festivals (1). Large Aboriginal cultural festivals have long thriv
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Rodan, Debbie. "Bringing Sexy Back: To What Extent Do Online Television Audiences Contest Fat-Shaming?" M/C Journal 18, no. 3 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.967.

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The latest reality program about weight loss makeover, Australian Channel Seven’s Bringing Sexy Back maintained the dominant frame of fat as bad, shameful and unsexy. Similar to other programs’ point of view, only slim bodies could claim to be healthy and sexy. Conversely the Fat Acceptance movement presents fat as beautiful, sexy, and healthy. But what did online audiences in 2014 think about Bringing Sexy Back? In this article online-viewer-generated comments are analysed to find out: a) whether audiences challenged and contested the dominant framing; and b) what phrases did they use to do t
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Beare, Alexander Hudson. "Prosthetic Memories in The Sopranos." M/C Journal 22, no. 5 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1586.

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In the HBO series The Sopranos, Tony and his friends use “prosthetic memories” to anchor their ethnic and criminal identities. Prosthetic memories were theorised by Alison Landsberg in her book Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. She argues that prosthetic memories are memories acquired through the mass media and do not come from a person’s lived experience in any sense (Landsberg 20). In this article, I will outline how The Sopranos television show and its characters interact with prosthetic memories. Extending Christopher Kocela’s work on
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Cutler, Ella Rebecca Barrowclough, Jacqueline Gothe, and Alexandra Crosby. "Design Microprotests." M/C Journal 21, no. 3 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1421.

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IntroductionThis essay considers three design projects as microprotests. Reflecting on the ways design practice can generate spaces, sites and methods of protest, we use the concept of microprotest to consider how we, as designers ourselves, can protest by scaling down, focussing, slowing down and paying attention to the edges of our practice. Design microprotest is a form of design activism that is always collaborative, takes place within a community, and involves careful translation of a political conversation. While microprotest can manifest in any design discipline, in this essay we focus
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Mills, Brett. "Those Pig-Men Things." M/C Journal 13, no. 5 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.277.

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Since its return in 2005 the science fiction series Doctor Who (BBC1) has featured many alien creatures which bear a striking similarity to non-human Earth species: the Judoon in “Smith and Jones” (2007) have heads like rhinoceroses; the nurses in “New Earth” (2006) are cats in wimples; the Tritovores in “Planet of the Dead” (2009) are giant flies in boilersuits. Yet only one non-human animal has appeared twice in the series, in unrelated stories: the pig. Furthermore, alien races such as the Judoon and the Tritovores simply happen to look like human species, and the series offers no narrative
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Nairn, Angelique. "Chasing Dreams, Finding Nightmares: Exploring the Creative Limits of the Music Career." M/C Journal 23, no. 1 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1624.

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In the 2019 documentary Chasing Happiness, recording artist/musician Joe Jonas tells audiences that the band was “living the dream”. Similarly, in the 2012 documentary Artifact, lead singer Jared Leto remarks that at the height of Thirty Seconds to Mars’s success, they “were living the dream”. However, for both the Jonas Brothers and Thirty Seconds to Mars, their experiences of the music industry (much like other commercially successful recording artists) soon transformed into nightmares. Similar to other commercially successful recording artists, the Jonas Brothers and Thirty Seconds to Mars,
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Musgrove, Brian Michael. "Recovering Public Memory: Politics, Aesthetics and Contempt." M/C Journal 11, no. 6 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.108.

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1. Guy Debord in the Land of the Long WeekendIt’s the weekend – leisure time. It’s the interlude when, Guy Debord contends, the proletarian is briefly free of the “total contempt so clearly built into every aspect of the organization and management of production” in commodity capitalism; when workers are temporarily “treated like grown-ups, with a great show of solicitude and politeness, in their new role as consumers.” But this patronising show turns out to be another form of subjection to the diktats of “political economy”: “the totality of human existence falls under the regime of the ‘perf
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Scantlebury, Alethea. "Black Fellas and Rainbow Fellas: Convergence of Cultures at the Aquarius Arts and Lifestyle Festival, Nimbin, 1973." M/C Journal 17, no. 6 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.923.

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All history of this area and the general talk and all of that is that 1973 was a turning point and the Aquarius Festival is credited with having turned this region around in so many ways, but I think that is a myth ... and I have to honour the truth; and the truth is that old Dicke Donelly came and did a Welcome to Country the night before the festival. (Joseph in Joseph and Hanley)In 1973 the Australian Union of Students (AUS) held the Aquarius Arts and Lifestyle Festival in a small, rural New South Wales town called Nimbin. The festival was seen as the peak expression of Australian countercu
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Mahon, Elaine. "Ireland on a Plate: Curating the 2011 State Banquet for Queen Elizabeth II." M/C Journal 18, no. 4 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1011.

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IntroductionFirmly located within the discourse of visible culture as the lofty preserve of art exhibitions and museum artefacts, the noun “curate” has gradually transformed into the verb “to curate”. Williams writes that “curate” has become a fashionable code word among the aesthetically minded to describe a creative activity. Designers no longer simply sell clothes; they “curate” merchandise. Chefs no longer only make food; they also “curate” meals. Chosen for their keen eye for a particular style or a precise shade, it is their knowledge of their craft, their reputation, and their sheer abi
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