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Book Review of Heather McCrea, Diseased Relations: Epidemic, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 [PDF]

, 2012
Diseased Relations is an impressive work succinct in its focus on the topic of public health history in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Adding to a growing body of scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book offers a new lens ...
Quezada-Grant, Autumn L, Dr
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Beauty and Translation: The Analytical Purchase of Diaspora for the Study of the Venezuelan Migration Crisis

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
wiley   +1 more source

Los Creoles de la costa Caribe de Nicaragua: entre la subalternidad y la hegemonía.

Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, 2012
Este artículo versa sobre la etnia creole que habita mayoritariamente la Región Autónoma del Atlántico del Sur en Nicaragua, sus orígenes y la construcción de su identidad, en contraste con las otras comunidades étnicas establecidas en ese mismo ...
Mayra Herra Monge
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Precarious agency: The role of uptake

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
wiley   +1 more source

Creolization and the collective unconscious: locating the originality of art in Wilson Harris' Jonestown, The Mask of the Beggar and The Ghost of Memory [PDF]

, 2008
Alongside the essays and fiction of Edouard Glissant, Wilson Harris's writings stand as one of the most important contributions to Caribbean creolization theory.
Burns, L.
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

The double modal construction in English world wide

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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“You Have to Melt It to Hear the Talk”: Transnationalism, Creole Stylization and Aurality in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2014
Whereas in the traditional ‘English novel’ the space of the nation is indexed by regionally unmarked, neutral, ‘standard’ English (cf. Bleak House), in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) the creation of a transnational London relies on an accented,
Dorottya Mozes
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Education Policy and Creole Education in Guadeloupe: Ambiguity for Educators in Educational Materials and Concern Over a French-Creole Interlect in the Classroom

Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2019
Regional languages in France have historically struggled to find their place in the national linguistic landscape, and French-based Creoles, like those of Guadeloupe and Martinique, are no exception.
Smith Taylor RaeAnne
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