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Strategy of kinship terms as a politeness model in maintaining social interaction: local values towards global harmony [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Current research on kinship terms shows that variants of kinship terms used in the Bugis speech community interactional discourse show the difference in social status between speakers and listeners. However, only few studies have investigated the role of
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American Anthropologist, 1933 AMERICAN ANTHROPOWGIST [N. s., 35, 1933 ancient Mexico. No other single work so fully carries us into the living past as that of Sahagun. He is our chief contemporary authority on the Aztec culture and no other approaches him. He may truthfully be said to be the first ethnologist in the American field. Dr.
Robert H. Lowie
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The Syntax of Null Possessors with Kinship Terms and Body Part Nouns in Vietnamese [PDF]
LanguagesBare nouns representing kinship terms (KNs) and body parts (BPNs) can be assumed to project a null possessor argument, which allows for the interpretation of such nouns relative to other linguistically present NPs.
Andrew Simpson, Linh Pham
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The Usage of Nahuatl Kinship Terms in Polite Speech
Politeja, 2015 Nahuatl kin terms are known to be employed in a vast array of metaphoric meanings, whose cultural point of reference is different than the basis of European metaphors.
Julia Madajczak
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Die leksikografiese bewerking van verwantskapsterme in Sepedi
Lexikos, 2021 The lexicographical treatment of kinship terminology in Sepedi.Kinship terminology in Sepedi is extensive and forms a complex system. In contrast to languages such as Afrikaans, English and German the lexicographer faces greater challenges in respect of ...
D.J. Prinsloo
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Teaching Culture through Language
Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2021 One socio-cultural aspect of the Korean language that foreign learners may encounter early is the extensive use of kinship terms in communicative situations.
Krisztina Nguyen
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A note on the kinship system of Kenya Luo
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 The kinship terms of Kenya Luo show morphologically plural forms for both singular and plural possessors. This feature is not uniform throughout the system, but is present in some terms, absent in others, and variable in still others.
William M. Christie Jr
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The semantic complexity of Hausa kinship terms
Topics in Linguistics, 2023 This study aims at analysing the absolute semantic complexity of kin terms in Hausa, i.e. to measure the amount of semantic information of individual kin terms. Each kin term is defined by a set of sufficient and necessary conditions (i.e. properties and
Batic Gian Claudio
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Kinship terms in the district of Vranje [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004 Kinship terminology includes a variety of terms used to identify and address kinsmen. This paper deals with nominal kinship categories, used for blood or fictive kinsmen in the district of Vranje during the second half of the 20th century.
Đorđević Jadranka Đ.
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The affective extension of ‘Family’ in the context of changing elite business networks [PDF]
, 2021 Drawing on 49 oral-history interviews with Scottish family business owner-managers, six key-informant interviews, and secondary sources, this interdisciplinary study analyses the decline of kinship-based connections and the emergence of new kinds of ...
Bika, Zografia, Frazer, Michael
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