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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Murdelisest tegelaskõnest "Tõe ja õiguse" I osas / Dialect in the Speech of Characters in A. H. Tammsaare’s Truth and Justice Part I

open access: yesMethis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2015
Teesid: Artikkel keskendub A. H. Tammsaare „Tõe ja õiguse“ pentaloogia I osas leiduvale murdelisele tegelaskõnele. Murdeline tegelaskõne on ilukirjanduslik võte, mis lähtub autori loomingulistest taotlustest ning on seega lahutamatu teose sisust. Keele-
Maria Mandri
doaj   +1 more source

LANGUAGE INFERIORITY OF NON-MAINSTREAM VERNACULAR: A CASE OF NGAPAK AND BANDHEK DIALECTS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In light of inseparable relationship between language and its speakers, the survival of a particular language is to a great extent affected by how the speakers of the language manage their self-identity and their social status with respect to their ...
Subarkah, Teguh Imam, Surtantini, Rin
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
wiley   +1 more source

Preliminary Report on Dialect Attitudes in Austrian and Slovene Carinthia

open access: yesSlovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2019
This paper is a preliminary analysis of an internet-based questionnaire on dialect attitudes and perceptions conducted in Slovene-speaking areas in Austrian and Slovene Carinthia. The survey largely confirmed expectations.
Grant H Lundberg
doaj  

Varieties of English Consonants Pronunciation Among English Un-dergraduate Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This research involved Thailand and Indonesia which is a multilingual country and has 749 dialects thoroughly. Dialect influences the way people speak foreign language in term of pronunciation, grammar and accent; the speech of people from different ...
Setiawan, B. R. (Beni)
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Psychometric Analysis of Scores on a Mexican Dialect Spanish Version of the PHQ‐9 With Mexican Earthquake Survivors

open access: yesJournal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the psychometric characteristics of the PHQ‐9 scores in a sample of 289 Spanish‐speaking participants who endured the 2017 Mw7.1 earthquake, which impacted the Mexican states of Puebla and Morelos, as well as the Greater Mexico City area.
Khalid Stetkevych   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Verb inflection in the dialect of Gammalsvenskby [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2012
The dialect of Gammalsvenskby is the only surviving Scandinavian dialect in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Due to the complete absence of studies into the present-day state of the dialect, the most urgent task is to collect, classify and ...
Man'kov Aleksandr
doaj  

Indian English Evolution and Focusing Visible Through Power Laws

open access: yesLanguages, 2017
New dialect emergence and focusing in language contact settings is difficult to capture and date in terms of global structural dialect stabilization. This paper explores whether diachronic power law frequency distributions can provide evidence of dialect
Vineeta Chand   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bilingualism or Monolingualism? (Some Aspects of the Bilingualism and Dyglossia in Literary Creativity)

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2020
The paper deals with some issues connected with the notions of bilingualism and diglossia in literary creativity. The main object of the investigation is the opposition: standard language / territorial dialect, and the leading criterion of the ...
Georgy T. Khukhuni, Irina I. Valuitseva
doaj   +1 more source

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