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Gendering translation: the 'female voice' in postcolonial Senegal [PDF]
, 2012 Using observations from translation theorists such as George Steiner, this article questions whether women's education in Senegal and separate male/female pools of communication have resulted in the development of distinct forms of writing.
Collins, G.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
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A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation
, 2017 Neural machine translation represents an exciting leap forward in translation quality. But what longstanding weaknesses does it resolve, and which remain?
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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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La femme comme facteur d’évolution sociale dans Chants d’ombre de Léopold Sédar Senghor [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé : Dans l’évolution sociale, on ignore que la femme en a été un facteur clé. Elle a toujours été comme une bonne à rien, incapable de réussir quoi que ce soit ou de se prendre en charge soi-même.
Adou BOUATENIN
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Focus expressions in Yom [PDF]
, 2009 This paper deals with the means for expressing the pragmatic category of focus in Yom, which is an Oti-Volta language of the Yom-Nawdem group spoken by about 74,000 people (Gordon 2005, online version) in the department of Donga in Northern Benin.
Fiedler, Ines
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Analyse socioculturelle de l’évolution des conditions de vie de la femme tagbana [PDF]
Ziglôbitha, 2023 Résumé : La femme tagbana d’avant les indépendances est celle-là qui n’a presque aucun droit dans la société. Son rôle était limité aux travaux champêtres et domestiques. Elle est l’éducatrice des enfants et la nourricière de la famille. Sa mission était
Eugenie OUATTARA
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Trayectorias Humanas Trascontinentales, 2021 Donner la vie dans un camp de la mort. Le roman Kinderzimmer de Valentine Goby nous livre une expérience à la fois traumatisante et sublimée de la grossesse et de la maternité vécues entre les murs du camp de Ravensbrück.
Marie-Gersande Raoult
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