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Breaking Down the Codes: A Study of the Nonverbal Emblems and Regulators Used in International B-Boy Competitions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This study explored the use of nonverbal emblems and regulators in international b-boy competitions. Using semiotics, a lexicon of the emblems and regulators was recorded. Then the dimensions from a theory of semantics of dance were applied to understand
Watanabe, Kelsi S.
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Moving beyond the ‘language problem': developing an understanding of the intersections of health, language and immigration status in interpreter-mediated health encounters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Health systems internationally are dealing with greater diversity in patient populations. However the focus on ‘the language problem’ has meant little attention is paid to diversity within and between migrant populations; and how interpreted ...
Alison Phipps   +17 more
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From Teamchef Arminius to Hermann Junior: glocalised discourse about a national foundation myth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
If for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ‘Battle of the Teutoburg Forest’, fought in 9 CE between Roman armies and Germanic tribes, was predominantly a reference point for nationalist and chauvinist discourses in Germany, the first ...
Andreas Musolff   +44 more
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WRITTEN DISCOURSE: INTERCULTURAL RHETORIC IN THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION

open access: yes, 2022
In today’s linguistic world, one of the most long attracted and arguable subjects is intercultural rhetoric which is simply defined as the study of text patterns or written discourse which varies with structural and cultural backgrounds between or among different languages [Ula Connor, 2011].
openaire   +1 more source

Songs of Mobility and Belonging: Gender, Spatiality and the Local in Southern Africa’s Transfrontier Conservation Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Western Maputaland is located in the borderlands of South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland. The combination of poverty, rural remoteness and exceptional ecological diversity has long made the region a target of conservationists and development planners ...
Impey, Angela
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“Our Culture is a Product of Active Word”

open access: yesArt/Research International
With a focus on the intersection of creative writing and research, this article reports findings from a poetic inquiry project conducted within an undergraduate writing seminar to help pre-service teachers make sense of immigrants’ experiences with ...
Amir Kalan
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Seeking discursive spaces for peace in media-sport narratives [PDF]

open access: yesConflict & Communication Online, 2009
Peace scholars have emphasized the importance of locating peace education outside of formal education or mainstream political rhetoric and into our daily interactions with media, religion, art, music, or sport.
Nancy K. Rivenburgh
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Exercising Empathy: Ancient Rhetorical Tools for Intercultural Communication

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2017
Can multiculturalism work? Can people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds live side by side peacefully and, even better, enrich each other? There are two ways social scientists can deal with this question. The first one, which I would label as “macro”, focuses on statistics and opinion surveys.
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RETÓRICAS DEL CUERPO Y LA CULTURA: MEMORIA Y POLÍTICA EN NOVELAS DE LOS '90

open access: yesIntersticios, 2013
Resumen En este trabajo buscamos explicitar algunos conceptos que permitan pensar el funcionamiento de las novelas en tanto textos artísticos insertos en contextos culturales específicos. Elegimos para esta labor dos obras de autores latinoamericanos que
Ana Inés Leunda
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