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A content analysis of gender representation in primary school Heritage-Social Studies textbooks in Zimbabwe

The Dyke
The study explores gender representation in grades 4 to 7 Heritage – Social Studies textbooks available to teachers, and learners in Zimbabwe Primary Schools.
Daniel Mawere
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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
wiley   +1 more source

Grammatical meaning and the second language classroom : introduction [PDF]

, 2018
This special issue assembles empirical work on second language teaching and learning from a generative linguistic perspective. The focus is on properties that constitute grammar–meaning interaction, that differ in the native and target language grammars,
Belletti A., Chierchia G., Chierchia G., Chomsky N., Cinque G., Ellis N.C., Heather Marsden, Ionin T., Jackendoff R., Krifka M., Kuroda S.Y., Laenzlinger C., Loewen S., Marsden H., Rothman J., Rothman J., Roumyana Slabakova, Schwartz B.D., Schütze C.T., Slabakova R., Slabakova R., Sorace A., Tomasello M., Valenzuela E., Whong M.   +24 more
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity, Matrimony and Generation: Reconfiguring Patriarchy in Drum 1951–1983 [PDF]

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2008
In this article, I discuss some of the ways in which Drum tended to ascribe ‘modernity’ to particular practices and processes in opposition to other practices and processes portrayed as ‘traditional’. In mid-twentieth-century South Africa, dominant discourses tended to signal (white) male adulthood through independent decision making alongside ...
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

How Much Gender is Too Much Gender? [PDF]

We live in a world saturated in both racial and gendered divisions. Our focus is on one place where attitudes about these divisions diverge: language. We suspect most everyone would be horrified at the idea of adding race-specific pronouns, honorifics ...
Dembroff, Robin, Wodak, Daniel
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A more‐than‐human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Since its inception, conservation science has considered wildlife trade a problem. In focusing on conservation outcomes, conservationists almost completely ignore the welfare of traded animals and plants and the harms they endure. We developed a political ecology approach that incorporates the interconnectedness of people with animals and ...
Sicily Fiennes, Novi Hardianto, Silvi Dwi Anasari, Luthfiyyah Damani, Jero Haryono, Tom Jackson, Asri A. Dwiyahreni, Christopher Birchall, George Holmes, Christopher Hassall   +9 more
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Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Research on gender and language is tightly knitted to social debates on gender equality and non-discriminatory language use. Psycholinguistic scholars have made significant contributions in this field. However, corpus-based studies that investigate these
Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Samira Ochs, Alexander Koplenig, Jan Oliver Rüdiger, Sascha Wolfer   +4 more
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Epistemic Housekeeping and the Philosophical Canon: A Reflection on Jane Addams’ “Women and Public Housekeeping" [PDF]

, 2016
In 1913, the National American Woman Suffrage Association published a broadside by Jane Addams, of about 740 words, titled “Women and Public Housekeeping.” A broadside is a poster, printed on one side, to be distributed or hung, and then thrown away.
Haslanger, Sally
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