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"The maniac bellowed" : queer affect and queer temporality in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre [PDF]
, 2015 textCharlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre, is commonly read as a feminist bildungsroman in which a young woman claims her independence. In opposition to these readings, I instead choose to question the ways in which the novel's feminist potential is elided
Davis, Carolyn Marjorie
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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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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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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What history tells us about the development of Creole in Guadeloupe
NWIG, 1992 Review of the socio-historical context in which Creole developed in Guadeloupe. The author questions the validity of the claim made about the insignificant role of African languages in the development of creole languages.
Marie-Josée Cérol
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Palatal sonorants in Portuguese-based creoles
IsoglossThe adaptation results of sounds across languages is a valuable source of information for their theoretical representation. Such research can be especially enlightening when complex or rare sounds are concerned.
Carlos Silva, Fábio Barcellos Granja
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Mieux comprendre l’émergence de nouvelles langues
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 This contribution aims at a better understanding of the emergence of creole languages by examining the role of convergence in the evolution of the perfect marker (f)in/’n in Mauritian and Seychelles Creoles.
Sibylle Kriegel
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Doing voices: reading language as craft in black British poetry [PDF]
, 2014 This is the author's final draft post-refereeing as published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature published online 14 April 2014 DOI:10.1177/0021989414529121.
GILMOUR, RH, Gilmour, RH
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
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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 ...
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