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Literacy Trek, 2019 This study was set out to investigate a small number of Turkish EFL teachers’ views about the concepts of a standard language, dialects, and other language varieties concerning their mother tongue (Turkish) and the language (English) they are tasked with
Ferhat Üresin, Ali Karakaş
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This chapter deals with the Khanty dialects and their differences in phonology, morphology, syntax, and information structure. The main concern is morphosyntactic functions and alternative sentence structures.
Forsberg, Ulla-Maija
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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MAJOR AMERICAN ENGLISH DIALECTS
, 2018 This article is dedicated to the study of Major American English Dialects. The historical background, lexical, phonological, and grammatical differences of American Dialects are briefly ...
Toguspay, A.M.
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Entangled political institutions and forms: From corporatisation to treaty
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The lands and waters now called Australia have been home to diverse political ordering and institutions for thousands of generations. The comparatively very recent arrival of settlers and the violent imposition of their political structures and institutions have forced First Nations to respond to, adapt to, resist, and refuse colonial ...
Morgan Brigg +4 more
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, 2018 Dialects are not merely a form of communication, but also an important part of our ethnic roots and heritage. It functions as a cultural vessel that carries stories from the past, in the form of practices, rituals, prayers etc. Singapore is a vibrant and
Chua, Valerie Jia Yi
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
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