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A comparison of Croatian and Slovenian exonyms

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2017
Croatian and Slovenian are very closely related South Slavic languages, but during their historical development they came under the influence of various other languages and various language policies determined by the broader framework of Hungary and ...
Drago Kladnik   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Searching and organizing images across languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
With the continual growth of users on the Web from a wide range of countries, supporting such users in their search of cultural heritage collections will grow in importance.
Clough, P., Sanderson, M., Shou, X.M.
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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The German heritage in Balkan languages

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2015
The German heritage in Balkan languages All Balkan languages show some German elements in their vocabulary, beginning with Old Bulgarian Bible texts up to modern Balkan languages, including Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian and Modern ...
Helmut Wilhelm Schaller
doaj   +1 more source

English in the mainstream: Heritage language or lingua franca? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article examines fundamental assumptions that relate to the nature and role of the English language in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its use in society generally and in the school curriculum specifically.
Bruce, Ian
core   +1 more source

A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
According to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau, more than 66 million residents over the age of 5 in the United States speak a language other than English at home.
Sayuri Hayakawa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic commodification in tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalunya and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially i n multilingual peripheries, is a key site for ...
Duchêne, Alexandre   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

‘Biodiversity’ in Extinction Rebellion’s words: an ecostylistic examination of a beneficial text

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This article refers to the ecological rhetorical terms ‘marker word’ and ‘environet’ and to the ecolinguistic terms ‘beneficial discourse’ and ‘ecosophy’, and applies the stylistic theories of foregrounding, point of view, and metaphor to explore two ...
Daniela Francesca Virdis
doaj   +1 more source

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