Living between languages: The politics of translation in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers [PDF]
This is the author's final draft post-refereeing as published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2012 47: 207 DOI:10.1177/0021989412440433.
Aboulela L +50 more
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Ethnocultural specificity of the Argentinian linguistic worldview
The concept of the linguistic worldviews gains currency in the scientific community. Its study gives a better perspective on the peculiarities of the ethnic perception of the world of various linguistic communities. The object of this research is the linguistic zones of the Argentinian Spanish language. The subject is the realities of the Argentinian
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Applying the Concept of Linguistic Worldview in Translation Teaching
The conception of linguistic worldview has long been researched. Yet, it is only recently that its relevance to translation studies has been pointed out.
Anna Wyrwa
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Verbalization of the concept “old” in the English and Russian folklore linguistic worldview [PDF]
The paper presents the results of the study of the vocabulary constituting concept ‘old' in the folk linguistic worldview based on the material of the English and Russian folk lyrics.The author makes an attempt to find ethnic peculiarities of this ...
Sotnikova Svetlana S.
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Perception of freedom in the Chinese linguistic worldview: Tradition and modernity
This article examines the changes in the linguistic and cultural concepts of freedom (自由 zìyóu) in the Chinese linguistic worldview, which have occurred as a result of extralinguistic and socio-cultural transformations brought by globalization processes ...
K.M. Naumova
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The Power of the Spoken Word in Defining Religion and Thought: A Case Study [PDF]
This essay explores the relationship between religion and language through a literature review of animist scholarship and, in particular, a case study of the animist worldview of Hmong immigrants to the United States.
Hilary Watt
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THE CONCEPT OF "TRADITION" IN THE LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF RUSSIAN AND TURKIC LANGUAGES) [PDF]
This article is dedicated to the study of the concept of "tradition" in the linguistic worldview based on the material of Russian and Turkic languages.
Nurlanova A. N.
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Malagasy Time Conceptions [PDF]
In this paper I discuss Øyvind Dahl’s argument (1995,1999) for the conclusion that Malagasy people conceive of the future as coming from behind them and not as being before them as most worldviews do.
WOODLING, Casey
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ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn +6 more
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Supporting doctors' professional identity development through specialist training
Abstract Anatomy‐centric specialties such as surgery, radiology, and anatomical pathology (AP) have workforce shortages, with attrition during the training phase proposed as a contributing factor. Current understanding of the reasons behind trainee attrition is limited, and there have been calls to increase the depth and richness of research in this ...
Shemona Y. Rozario +3 more
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