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Multilingualism, Indigenization, and Creolization
, 2012 The contact between languages in multilingual contexts can lead to language change and the formation of new varieties of language. The term 'indigenization' is used to refer to the contact-induced linguistic changes that result in a new dialect, while ...
Siegel, Jeff, Jeff Siegel
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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Hybrid languages, translation and post-colonial challenges
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2007 Multilinguality, creolization and hybridisation are central phenomena of language. Languages bear the traces of creative borrowing, as well as forced changes as a consequence of domination.
Joshua M. Price +2 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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Musically Creolizing Subjects: Re(envisioning) world music education
Encounters in Theory and History of Education, 2010 This paper explores possibilities for constructing creole subjects through world music education. Creolization results from the “fusing and mixing of cultures forced to cohabit together to render something else possible” (Walcott, 2009, p.
Juliet Hess
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Tijdschrift 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
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Creolization and Romanity: the continuities and changes of Roman Egypt. [PDF]
, 2022 Past scholarship has analyzed Roman Egypt through the process of Romanization, but my research evaluates the province through creolization instead. The process of creolization is complex but affords indigenous populations more agency than terms like ...
Kaelin, Travis M
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“National Language” and its Discontents: A French Debate in European Context
Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2009 The author posits the concept of language communities, as opposed to that of national language, as a more adecuate categorization in explaning the development of European language policies.
Barnard Turner
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Ancestral languages and (imagined) creolization
Language Documentation and Description, 2005 It is sometimes argued that the language of certain indigenous communities in North America and Australia is no longer the ancestral language, but ‘Indian English’ or ‘Eskimo English’ or ‘Aboriginal English.’ But are these stable, persistent, emblems of ...
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The Grammar of Perception: A Case Study of Guambiano (Namtrik) and Duna
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Although the senses provide a common basis for our experience of the world, cross‐linguistic research has revealed substantial diversity across languages in how perceptual experiences are encoded in words. Such variability is also present at the level of grammatical structure, though the project of charting the parameters and limits of cross ...
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque
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