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Protagonist language : texts as agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Este artigo propõe discutir uma concepção social de linguagem em relação ao mundo contemporâneo, conceituando o protagonismo da linguagem e dos textos. A linguagem e os textos possuem uma força agenciadora, que atua por meio de agentes sociais.
Magalhães, Izabel
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Voices Past and Present - A comparison of Old Cape dialectal, Bushman and Khoikhoi words [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source for documenting and preserving some of them.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Contribution of Hydric Habitats to the Richness of the Cape Fynbos Flora

open access: yesDiversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim The Cape Fold Belt Mountains, underlying the Cape fynbos flora, facilitate widespread moisture collection and groundwater availability across the region, with importance for maintaining hydric habitat niches. We assessed the contribution of hydric habitat‐associated species (HH species) to the richness of this flora, and how this varies ...
J. J. van Blerk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biosphere reserves in the megadiverse Cape Floristic Region are effective in conserving arthropod diversity 开普植物区的生物圈保护区有效保护了节肢动物多样性

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 312-329, December 2024.
Biosphere reserves aim to protect global biodiversity alongside social and economic development. In the Cape Floristic Region, biosphere reserves are an effective conservation approach to protect arthropods against habitat transformation in this biodiverse region.
Michael J. Samways   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The OED Supplement (A-G, H-N) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
The history of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) goes back to 1857 when the then Dean of Westminster, by calling attention to deficiencies of existing English dictionaries, encouraged the Philological Society to make plans for the compilation of a new ...
Francis, Darryl H.
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Cultivating Grahamstown: Nathaniel Merriman, Shakespeare and Books [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In 1857, Archdeacon Nathaniel Merriman delivered two public lectures on Shakespeare under the auspices of the “General Institute” of Grahamstown. The first, “On the Study of Shakspeare”, was given on 2 September and “Shakspeare, As Bearing on English ...
Wright, Laurence
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Population affinities in pre‐colonial West Africa: The case of the burial cave Iroungou (Gabon, 14th–15th century CE)

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 2, October 2024.
The crania of Iroungou Cave Abstract Introduction Our knowledge of the populations of sub‐Saharan Africa in the periods before European colonization is limited. Few archeological sites containing human remains have been identified, and written sources for these periods are rare.
Aurélien Mounier   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Having our say” revisited: Wellness of Black women counselors

open access: yesJournal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 257-272, October 2024.
Abstract As a subset of a larger mixed‐methods study of Black counselor wellness, a sequential explanatory research design was used to explore the relationship between the Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema and wellness in Black women counselors. Regression results indicated the SBW schema was a statistically significant predictor of wellness. Grounded in
Adrienne N. Erby   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dutch in Suriname: an agent of language change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dutch has been present in Suriname since the mid 17th century. Historical records show that the language was not only used by Dutch colonists and free Africans but also by enslaved Africans from the very beginning of its implantation in Suriname.
Yakpo, K
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IDENTITY OF PLACE, PLACES OF IDENTITIES, CHANGE OF PLACE NAMES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
International audienceVarious types of transformations of toponyms coexist today in South Africa at every scale: street, suburb, village, town, city, municipality, district, province and country. Place names contribute to forge the identity of particular
Guyot, Sylvain, Seethal, Cecil
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