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The problem of the abolition of slavery and maritime rights on U.S. vessels with regards to British American relations in the first half of the 19th century

Przegląd Nauk Historycznych, 2020
The article analyses the struggle of Anglo-American relations connected to slaves and maritime rights on the sea from 1831 to 1842. The study is based on monographs, reports, treaties and correspondences between the two countries from the explosion of ...
Nguyen Van Sang, Jolanta A. Daszyńska
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Imaginaires linguistiques dans la fiction postcoloniale francophone

Multilinguales, 2023
In the present contribution, we engage in a debate on linguistic imaginaries in Francophone literature. It proposes to analyse the linguistic and sociolinguistic phenomena that are translated through the language of writing in the texts of Gisèle Pineau,
Oumar Mamoudou Thiam
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[Review of] Marcyliena Morgan , ed. Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations [PDF]

, 1995
The result of a 1990 conference on The Social Significance of Creole Language Studies sponsored by Pomona and Pitzer of the Claremont Colleges and the University of California, Los Angeles, this stimulating collection of six papers enriches the field ...
Herzfeld, Anita
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Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion: A critical analysis of indigenous student language data in Queensland Schools [PDF]

, 2015
As part of the ‘Bridging the Language Gap’ project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be ‘invisible’ in several key and self-reinforcing ways in ...
Angelo, Denise, Dixon, Sally
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
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Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
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Wok (‘work’) as a Melanesian Cultural Keyword: Exploring Semantic Insights from an Indigenous Tok Pisin Play

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2022
This paper offers a preliminary cultural semantic exploration of a key social concept of the Melanesian worldview advanced in the anthropological literature of the area. It is argued that the cultural meaning of this notion can be accessed by focusing on
Paweł Kornacki
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Creole typology I

, 2017
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of structural properties of creole languages based on widely different languages and spoken in a broad geographic range. We discuss phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Phonologically, creoles tend to have average properties. Creoles are generally not endowed with a rich morphological
Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen
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Early manifestations of unexpected bilingualism in minimally verbal autism

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Unexpected bilingualism (UB) in autism, in which children speak languages not spoken in their social environment, has been sporadically reported. UB implies that autistic children can acquire languages in a non‐socially interactive way. The early minimally verbal period in autism could be critical for non‐interactive language acquisition ...
David Gagnon, Alexia Ostrolenk, Laurent Mottron   +2 more
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The colonizer and the colonized: A postcolonial approach to Brave New World [PDF]

Teaching English Language, 2010
Postcolonial studies analyze the power relationship between the colonizer and the colonized people and tries to show the dominance of the colonizer over the colonized people not only in political, but also in social, cultural, and psychological aspects ...
Noushin Pakzad
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