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Rastafarian-herbalists’ enregisterment of multilingual voices in an informal marketplace

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016
What do we mean when we talk about “multilingual voice” in the post-apartheid sociolinguistic context of South Africa? In this paper, I explore this question by reporting on an ethnographic fieldwork project that involved the participant-observation of ...
Williams, Quentin
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
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The Correspondence of Ludvik Kuba with Andronyk Stepovychиas a Source for the Research of Czech-Ukrainian Cultural Communications

Київські історичні студії
The article analyzes the correspondence of prominent Czech folklorist and painter Ludvik Kuba (1863–1956) with Ukrainian philologist, specialist in Slavic languages and literature, teacher Andronyk Stepovych (1856/1857–1935).
Yevhen Kovalov
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Left dislocation: towards a new horizon

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016
This volume has examined the LD construction in several genetically and areally diverse languages with the overarching aim of contributing to a more coherent and crosslinguistically justifiable profile of the LD category.
Westbury, Josh , Andrason, Alexander
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford, Roman Martin Wittig, Cedric Girard‐Buttoz   +2 more
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Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter 2010-2011, No. 34

, 2010
New Ancient Israel and the Near East program; interview with Ghada Abdel Aal, author of I Want to Get Married! The Jil Jadid graduate student conference in Arabic literature and linguistics; a visit by Adonis; Arabic House co-op; Intensive Persian ...
Aghaie, Kamran Scot, Shuey, Kristi, Moore, Wendy, Rose, Christopher   +3 more
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From Material Tensions to Organizational Paradoxes: How Manufacturers Cope With the Limits of Circular Product Design

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular product design (CPD) is central to advancing the circular economy by enabling the narrowing, slowing, and closing of resource flows. Yet, its implementation remains persistently challenging for firms. Prior research has largely framed these challenges as discrete barriers, overlooking the structural contradictions embedded in CPD ...
Vanessa Robertson, Nelly Rahimy, Suleika Bort   +2 more
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A task-based approach to improving the communicative skills of university students learning Afrikaans as an additional language

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2014
This paper reports on a qualitative study which was conducted with first-year Afrikaans Language Acquisition students in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Adendorff, Elbie
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Evaluation of Governance, Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Financial Dimensions Through an Integrated Multicriteria Decision‐Making Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable governance depends on the joint functioning of institutional quality, fiscal discipline, environmental performance, and socioeconomic inclusion. However, many composite indicators rely on subjective weighting schemes and leave the structural role of governance underspecified.
Ömer Faruk Rençber, Eda Zorkirişçi, Abdulkadir Aksoy, Zehra Çelik   +3 more
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A comparative study of some English translations of parts of three Mu'allaqat [PDF]

, 2007
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited ...
Berdom, Abduladim
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