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The Ebbs and Flows of te reo Māori Use in New Zealand English

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
In this article, we associate the use of te reo Māori in vernacular New Zealand English with political alignments and transformations in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Spencer Lilley, Mark Turin
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Lexical Borrowing in the Qur’ān

Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem, 2011
The last study offering an exhaustive presentation of loanwords in the Qur’ān is Arthur Jeffery’s The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’ān (1938). This lexicon comprises the 275 foreign words (not including proper nouns) found in the Qur’ān. It compiles previous studies dealing with lexical borrowing – a topic at the heart of the Oriental research in an ...
openaire   +1 more source

Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Dialectal Variation in Contact Scenarios Through Dialectometry: Insights from Inner Asia Minor Greek

Languages
This study investigates the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic factors in language contact scenarios, focusing on inner Asia Minor Greek (iAMGr), a dialect cluster influenced by Turkish and isolated from other Greek-speaking regions.
Stavros Bompolas, Dimitra Melissaropoulou   +1 more
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Race Concept Unmediated Racism

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Michael O. Hardimon
wiley   +1 more source

Words and Scents: How Language Shapes and Skews Olfactory Processing

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on language and olfaction presents a paradox. Language appears to support the formation of odor categories, yet it can also hinder odor recognition through verbal interference, highlighting that different olfactory processes get affected in distinct ways.
Norbert Vanek
wiley   +1 more source

On Lexical Obsolescence in Tacawit: The Case of Six Berber Fauna Terms

Traduction et Langues, 2018
The present paper gives an account of a cross-regional study of lexical obsolescence in Tacawit. It aims to compare the rates of lexical erosion across three regions: the Aurès Massif, Occidental Aurès and Oriental Aurès.
Farid Chaira, Hacène Hamada
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Lexical borrowing in Indonesian printed media /

, 2017
1 ethesis (xvii, 242 pages) :illustrationsIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-242)The aim of this study is to explore linguistic contact between English and Bahasa Indonesia - the national language of Indonesia, a non-English speaking country -
Muziatun,
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There Is More Than Meets the Eye: The Dual Role of Perception in Shaping Color Lexicons

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Color's ultimate physical reality is continuous, and yet human beings “cut” this continuum into a rather small number of categories reflected in their languages’ color lexicon. There are striking cross‐linguistic differences in the color lexicon, which are primarily attributed to differences in communicative needs, but also striking ...
Mathilde Josserand, Dan Dediu, François Pellegrino, Serge Caparos   +3 more
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Lexical borrowing from Arabic to Pular: context and features

, 2015
With the introduction of Islam, West Africa became a site for intense interaction and contact between the Arabic and African languages. This interaction subsequently strengthened due to West African languages borrowing substantially from Arabic for ...
Diallo, I.
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