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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
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Pidgin and Creole ecology and evolution
, 2020 This chapter outlines a research framework in which pidgin and Creole languages (PCL) are conceptualized as adaptive systems with inherent idiolectal variation, a prerequisite to evolutionary change.
Pui Yiu Szeto +3 more
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The non-Swahili African component in Nubi
Studies in African Languages and CulturesThe present article is an attempt at establishing the origins of Africanisms found in Nubi, a Sudanese Arabic-lexifier creole spoken in Uganda and Kenya, with a large number of substrate and adstrate languages.
Andrei A. Avram
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Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius Islands: Creative Practices in Mauritian Creole
Island Studies Journal, 2016 Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place
Gitanjali Pyndiah
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The Word, Sound, and Power of Reading Your Writing Aloud
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract This essay positions reading one's writing aloud as embodied praxis and examines it alongside “word, sound and power,” a Rastafari philosophy which asserts that spoken words can alter reality. The essay offers reading aloud as a crucial world‐making act that cultivates relationalities with our voices, our interlocutors, and their stories.
Kimberley D. McKinson
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Negotiating Linguistic Prestige: The Sociolinguistic Value Of Creole In Guadeloupe
This study explores the sociolinguistic significance of Creole in Guadeloupe and its impact on the French Caribbean Island. It aims to investigate the perceptions of Guadeloupeans regarding the Creole language, the influence of historical and social ...
Johnson, Letrice
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Forma y Función, 2011 En este artículo se presenta de manera general una descripción de la situación sociolingüística de las lenguas criollas habladas en la región del Caribe.
David Leonardo García León
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Impact of individualized opioid protocols on post‐cesarean discharge prescriptions
Pregnancy, Volume 2, Issue 6, November 2026.Abstract Introduction Consensus on optimal prescribing of opioids at discharge following cesarean delivery remains limited. Since inpatient opioid use is a strong predictor of outpatient need, individualized approaches may improve prescribing accuracy.
Sarah W. Freeman +6 more
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Improving neural language models on low-resource creole languages [PDF]
, 2018 When using neural models for NLP tasks, like language modelling, it is difficult to utilize a language with little data, also known as a low-resource language.
Schieferstein, Sarah
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Ditransitive constructions: Creole languages in a cross-linguistic perspective
, 2003 In this paper, we argue that the ditransitive constructions in creole languages worldwide are best explained on the basis of influence from substrate languages in Africa and the Pacific region.http://www.creolica.net/Ditransitive-constructions ...
Michaelis, Susanne (5152463) +5 more
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