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Precarious agency: The role of uptake

open access: yesThe 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

Chamoiseau’s Literary Creolization: The Stylistic Potential of a Vernacular [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In his novels and theoretical works, Martiniquan writer Édouard Glissant favors a process of creolization that entails a creative mixing of languages rather than a reinforcement of linguistic hierarchical binaries.
Mandy Mazur
core   +1 more source

‘In Curaçao They Celebrate King's Day Abundantly!’ – Diachronic Representation of (Post)colonial Communities in Dutch Geography Textbook Discourse (1946–2018)

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Postcolonial textbook research leads us to reflect on the representation of (post)colonial communities in educational media for adolescents in geography education. This paper contributes to this scholarship through Critical Discourse Analysis tracing how nine Dutch geography textbooks (1946–2018) have represented such communities from ...
Marthe Wierenga, Dietha Koster
wiley   +1 more source

CREOLIZATION IN NEW ORLEANS: JAZZ AND CULTURAL HYBRIDITY 1900-1940 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
My project builds on existing histories of jazz, theories of creolization, and studies on cultural hybridity. Creolization and hybridity were equal partners in the creation of a societal and musical revolution.
Dow, Franklin Dennis
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

open access: yesWorld 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

open access: yesWorld 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
wiley   +1 more source

IMPACTS OF CREOLIZATION ON TRUST AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN IT-ENABLED GLOBAL SERVICES SOURCING [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Creolization seems to play a key role in driving success in global IT sourcing, but the impacts of creolization on trust and knowledge sharing between the supplier and the client have not been study.
Du, Rong, Straub, Detmar, Ai, Shizhong
core   +1 more source

Becoming-postcolonial, becoming-Caribbean: Édouard Glissant and the poetics of creolization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Critical responses to ‘creolization’ have tended to characterise it as a process of synthesis and adaptation engendered by the colonisation of the Caribbean.
Burns, L., Burns, Lorna Margaret
core   +1 more source

Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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