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Linguistic Imperialism: A Study of its Impact on the Assamese Language in the Greater Sivasagar District of Assam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The state of Assam in India is the home to the people who speak Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language. Assamese is the native tongue of the people of Assam and the official language of the state of Assam.
Baishalee Rajkhowa   +5 more
core   +1 more source

English as a Tool of British Political and Linguistic Imperialism in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People

open access: yesUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2020
The spread of English is considered as a tool of British political and linguistic imperialism in effects of globalization. Kachrus Three Circle model of World Englishes has always played significant role in the categorization of the spread of English ...
Naeema Shah
doaj   +1 more source

Sprache und Nihilismus. Eine Kritik an der Homogenisierung der Sprache [PDF]

open access: yesPhainomena
Language and Nihilism. A Critique of the Homogenization of Language --- If language is understood not only as a simple way of communicating, but also and fundamentally as an experience, in which man opens himself to the world, to other men and their ...
Alfredo Rocha de la Torre
doaj   +1 more source

A Historical Account of Linguistic Imperialism and Educational Policy in Tunisia: From the independence to the ‘Jasmine Revolution’

open access: yesIndonesian TESOL Journal, 2021
This article is about foreign languages hegemony in Tunisia. It describes the linguistic situation at the macro and micro levels, the Tunisian and the international linguistic communities, the status of English and French languages throughout the world ...
Leila Najeh Bel’Kiry
doaj   +1 more source

Still the Spectre at the Feast: Comparisons between Peacekeeping and Imperialism in Peacekeeping Studies Today [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The sheer ambition and scale of UN peacebuilding today inevitably invokes comparison with historic practices of colonialism and imperialism, from critics and supporters of peacebuilding alike. The legitimacy of post-settlement peacebuilding is often seen
Cunliffe, Philip
core   +1 more source

Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: Linguistic imperialism continued. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article reviews the book “Linguistic imperialism continued”, edited by Robert ...
Barnard, Roger
core  

Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Down Memory Lane ... as LAEL Celebrates its Golden Jubilee [PDF]

open access: yesDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020
In this paper, I attempt to trace the evolution of LAEL over the 50 years of its history, intertwining the narrative with my own personal trajectory since my arrival in Brazil in 1976.
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
doaj   +1 more source

Demystifying the indigenous language ‘inadequacies’ towards capacity building in science and technology in Zimbabwe [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2012
Africa seems to be underplaying, underestimating and despising the role of indigenous languages as an emancipatory tool from the socio-economic and political bondage born of colonialism.
Gilbert Tarugarira
doaj  

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