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Shakespeare’s Glocal Moorings: Transculturation in Two 2001 Celluloid Adaptations of Othello [PDF]
: This article examines two film adaptations of Shakespeare’s Othello released in 2001, Geoffrey Sax's telefilm Othello and Tim Blake Nelson's O, from the perspective of Fernando Ortiz’s concept of transculturation, focusing on how ideas about race ...
Dhee Sankar +4 more
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Local Tests of English in Global Contexts: A Malaysian Case Study
ABSTRACT Global tests of English are usually used globally and local tests locally. However, this global–local dichotomy has been challenged by test localisation, globalisation and glocalisation. An emerging critical question in this regard is whether local tests of English can be used locally and globally at the same time.
M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob
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On natural and artificial glocalization
Glocalization is a point where globalization enters communities or phenomena of different styles, cultures and traditions, including the phenomena of fine arts and architecture. Artificial glocalization is a search and application of specific forms-signs, and creation of a set of characteristics symbolizing the local tradition.
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Listen—Christy Moore’s Old and New, Glocal Ireland
This article examines the role of popular music in the construction of communal belonging and cultural memory in contemporary Ireland, focusing on a single case, namely that of the former lead singer of Planxty, Christy Moore—ever a politically active ...
Bent Sørensen
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Address Terms in Communication Between Fashion Companies and Their Customers on Instagram
ABSTRACT This article investigates the ways in which three global fashion brands, Princess Polly (Australia), Adore Me (United States) and Cider (China), address customers in their Instagram comments and captions during a 3‐month period in 2022. The analysis focuses on positive politeness markers such as the use of first names, nicknames and friendship/
Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius
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This paper considers the narratives in mobile phone commercials during a period of unprecedented market expansion. How was the fastest growing global sector in 2012 sold to consumers in different countries and cultures, and how have mobile brands, that ...
Paul Springer, Mădălina Moraru (Buga)
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The poetics of the river in Indian literature in English
Water is a natural element that has been universally and religiously recognized as a purifying natural symbol. In India this element acquires special significance from a literary perspective, from poetry to narrative.
Carmen Escobedo de Tapia +1 more
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The glocal as scale and provocation in Hungarian Studies
This introduction reconstructs the arguments of the editors and contributors of a thematic cluster of the Hungarian Studies Yearbook that focuses on the possible methodological uses of the glocal both as a scale and as a methodological challenge for ...
Fazakas Emese, Szabó Levente T.
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Making gas diffusivity explicit in no‐till N2O interpretation
Abstract No‐till can conserve soil and store carbon, yet its effects on N2O emissions remain inconsistent. Soil gas diffusivity regulates O2 supply, N2O production and reduction, and the N2O/(N2O + N2) product ratio, but this control is not always explicit when no‐till outcomes are interpreted from surface fluxes alone.
Jeong‐Gu Lee, Sang‐Jae Kang
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"Glocal" Science Advocacy [PDF]
Here we go again. on 4 February, President Bush released his fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget request to the U.S. Congress, and the news for research funding is once again mixed. Some agencies, such as the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy9s Office of Science, are proposed for very substantial increases, but others, such as the ...
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