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Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica [PDF]
, 2001 Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties.
Burnard, Trevor
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
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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
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Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?
Reading & Writing, 2015 This mixed questionnaire survey sought to determine if lecturers who learned to speak and understand Nigerian Creole before English are willing to use the language as medium of instruction.
Uju C. Ukwuoma
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Ecological and Sociodemographic Determinants of House Infestation by Triatoma infestans in Indigenous Communities of the Argentine Chaco [PDF]
, 2015 The Gran Chaco ecoregion, a hotspot for Chagas and other neglected tropical diseases, is home to >20 indigenous peoples. Our objective was to identify the main ecological and sociodemographic determinants of house infestation and abundance of Triatoma ...
Cardinal, Marta Victoria +4 more
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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
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Language attitudes of Limon creole speakers
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 Este estudio es un análisis de las actitudes de los hablantes del Criollo Inglés de Limón con respecto a su lengua materna. Una actitud negativa hacia esta lengua es una de las causas fundamentales de la asimilación lingüística que ocurre hoy.
Marva Spence Sharpe
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Creole Formation as Language Contact [PDF]
, 2003 The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of ...
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Considering a lexicographic plan for Gabon within the Gabonese language landscape [PDF]
, 2009 This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the Gabonese
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract How can anthropologists ensure the accuracy of the statements they make in their publications, especially in an era of ever increasing budgetary and bureaucratic pressures that limit the duration of fieldwork? What should the role of language abilities be in this context and to what degree is it necessary to learn the language of the place ...
Mark Collins, Tukul Walla Kaiku
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