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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
wiley   +1 more source

In/Visibility in the Internet’s Third Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Current research (see, for example, Cheong, Martin and Macfadyen, 2012) on patterns of global and intercultural new media penetration and use nevertheless reveal the thinness of earlier utopian hopes for a technologically mediated “global village ...
Green, Leila   +4 more
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The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs: From the White Australia Policy to Multicultural Australia

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
wiley   +1 more source

Intercultural Rhetoric as Instructional Technique for Improving Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension: Effectiveness & Challenges [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 2019
Framed in schema theory, the present mixed method study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of two instructional techniques-L1 and Ethnography-in promoting knowledge of IRs and to improve Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ reading ...
Maria Pir   +2 more
doaj  

Le metafore concettuali in un approccio comunicativo nell’apprendimento delle lingue straniere

open access: yesEducazione Linguistica Language Education, 2017
Metaphors are figures of the speech where a word or phrase denoting a thing or a concept is used in place of another thing or concept. They have been used for millennia in literature and rhetorical speech.
Dalla Libera, Cristina
doaj   +1 more source

La raison interculturelle et les conditions préliminaires de l’argumentation

open access: yesArgumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2020
Early in The New Rhetoric, Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca raise the spectre of the fanatic who “adheres to a disputed thesis for which no unquestionable proof can be furnished,” refuses to submit it for free discussion, and thereby “rejects the ...
Christopher W. Tindale
doaj   +1 more source

Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
wiley   +1 more source

The rhetoric of “science diplomacy": Innovation for the EU's scientific cooperation? EL-CSID Working Paper Issue 2018/16 • April 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the recent years, the EU policy discourse has endorsed the notion of “science diplomacy” that points to the interaction between scientific research and foreign policy as instrumental in the societal and political progress.
Penca, Jerneja
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Compliance: Societal External Review as a Driver of Curriculum Renewal for the Twin Transition

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The article argues that prevailing quality arrangements in European higher education are increasingly inadequate for addressing the demands generated by the twin digital–green transition. Building on evidence about evolving skill needs and on the EQAVET peer‐review model in vocational education and training, it introduces the concept of ...
Diego Boerchi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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