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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
wiley   +1 more source

New Arabic Records From Cairo on Supernovae 1181 and 1006

open access: yesAstronomische Nachrichten, Volume 346, Issue 9, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000–5000 year), the unusual star IRAS00500+6713 with a surrounding nebula (Pa‐30) has an expansion age not inconsistent with a SN Iax explosion in ad 1181 under the assumption that neither acceleration nor ...
J. G. Fischer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anti‐Blackness, Canonicity, and (Mis‐)Identification in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 2, Page 91-108, Spring 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the disturbing presence of anti‐Black language and tropes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's recent, celebrated novel Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum. Drawing on Toni Morrison's classic analysis in Playing in the Dark, I argue Özdamar's anti‐Blackness is characterized by a double‐valence: on one hand, Özdamar's anti‐Blackness ...
Barbara N. Nagel
wiley   +1 more source

Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 502-516, December 2024.
Abstract Sufism (tasawwuf) has been characterized in the extant literature as a pacifist strand in Islam that has shaped the landscapes of Muslim Southeast Asia (also known as the Malay World) since the last five hundred years. This article challenges such historiographical interpretation by examining the multifarious circumstances that motivated Sufis
Khairudin Aljunied
wiley   +1 more source

Stylistic Analysis of the Works of Ruwange and Kifri Literary Schools: With Especial Reference to the Poetry of Sherko Bekas and Latif Halmat

open access: yesپژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2017
The present paper seeks to explore the poetical premises and stylistic features of the works of Ruwange and Kifri, as two major literary schools. Both schools played a highly significant role in the literary development of Kurdish poetry from 1970 to ...
Seyed Bakhtiar Sadjadi
doaj  

Numbers in Context: Cardinals, Ordinals, and Nominals in American English

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2024.
Abstract There are three main types of number used in modern, industrialized societies. Cardinals count sets (e.g., people, objects) and quantify elements of conventional scales (e.g., money, distance), ordinals index positions in ordered sequences (e.g., years, pages), and nominals serve as unique identifiers (e.g., telephone numbers, player numbers).
Greg Woodin, Bodo Winter
wiley   +1 more source

Places between vanishing and appearing compass and sense in the Iraqi Kurdish poetry translator

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
Longer Kurdish poetry translator important tributary of the tributaries of the Iraqi culture contemporary , and a wealth of knowledge rich experiences of an important segment of the Iraqi people , nicked culturally with the languages and cultures of the ...
صلاح كاظم هادي
doaj  

A Comparative Study of Social Thoughts in the Poems of Mullah Ma'rouf Kokei and Ma'rouf al-Rosafi

open access: yesپژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی
Literature has perpetually accompanied humanity through the tumultuous tides of history, inherently serving as a vessel for grappling with societal issues.
Qader Qaderi
doaj   +1 more source

Reflection of Qajar Period Social Discourse in Mastooreh Kurdestani Poems With the Approach of Norman Fairclough [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات اجتماعی روان‌شناختی زنان
This research has been done with the aim of analyzing how the social discourse governing Qajar period Iran is reflected in the poems of Kurdistan mystic, poet lady and mystic of this period.
Mahin Panahi, Faezeh waezzadeh
doaj   +1 more source

‘ONE WITH THE EARTH’: Mapping Solidarities for the (Un)Queering of Space in the Black Lesbian Journal Aché, 1989–1993

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 198-224, March 2024.
Abstract This study traces how Black lesbians in the San Francisco Bay Area made a place for themselves in the world at the end of the twentieth century, after the decline of the Black Power Movement and before the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Alesia Montgomery
wiley   +1 more source

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