Gabonese French Dictionaries: Survey and Perspectives* [PDF]
This article is a survey study of lexicographic activities with regards to the French language as it is spoken in Gabon, a French-speaking country in central Africa.
Mavoungou, PA
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Considering a Lexicographic plan for Gabon within the Gabonese Language Landscape* [PDF]
This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the Gabonese
H Ndinga-Koumba-Binza +1 more
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Severe falciparum malaria in Gabonese children: clinical and laboratory features. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to claim one to two million lives a year, mainly those of children in sub-Saharan Africa. Reduction in mortality depends, in part, on improving the quality of hospital care, the training of healthcare workers and ...
Mboza, Béatrice +51 more
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The dynamics of wild and alternative meat consumption across Gabon, Central Africa
Abstract Long‐term overharvesting of wild animals for their meat threatens wildlife and the people dependent on wild animal meat for their diets and incomes. Interventions to reduce wild meat consumption must be built upon a complete understanding of the roles of wild meat and its alternatives within food systems.
Joshua Bauld +14 more
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Considering a lexicographic plan for Gabon within the Gabonese language landscape [PDF]
This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the Gabonese
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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The Reproduction of Cultural Aspects in Dictionaries in French and the Gabonese Languages* [PDF]
The reproduction of culture in dictionaries constitutes one of the fundamental prob-lems of lexicographers today. What is the nature of cultural data in dictionaries? To what extent should cultural aspects be transferred from one language to another? How
Otsaga, TA +5 more
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Cross-sector collaborative activities to promote modern languages in Scotland [PDF]
The study was commissioned by The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS). It replicates the study by Davis (2006) on cross-sector activities to promote the study of modern languages in England and Wales,
, Subject Centre Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (Funder) +2 more
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Abstract The town of Gamba in southwest Gabon represents an exceptional example of how the development of an extractive industry (in this case oil production) may impact wild meat consumption in an area of global importance for biodiversity. Studies in the 1990s identified an active wild meat trade; however, no studies have been undertaken since, and ...
James McNamara +4 more
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The reproduction of cultural aspects in dictionaries in French and the Gabonese languages [PDF]
The reproduction of culture in dictionaries constitutes one of the fundamental prob-lems of lexicographers today. What is the nature of cultural data in dictionaries? To what extent should cultural aspects be transferred from one language to another? How
Mihindou, Guy-Roger +2 more
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RUST AND REPARATIONS: Memory, Labor, and the Politics of Repair in Senegal's Railway Workshop
ABSTRACT This essay examines the multivalences of repair in Senegalese railway workshops, where workers maintain and modify aging wagons from suburban and former transnational rail services, originally imported from France, and later from India and Pakistan. I trace three interrelated dimensions of repair.
CHARLINE KOPF
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