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ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Color Naming Experiment in Mongolian Language
There are numerous researches on color terms and names in many languages. In Mongolian language there are few doctoral theses on color naming. Cross cultural studies of color naming have demonstrated Semantic relevance in French and Mongolian color name Gerlee Sh. (2000); Comparisons of color naming across English and Mongolian Uranchimeg B.
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Deteriorating Mental Well‐Being of the Young in the UK
ABSTRACT Using several data sets for the UK we track rising perceptions of mental well‐being among the working‐age population in the UK. The trend is apparent among all age groups and for men and women, but it is most pronounced among the young, and especially young women aged under 25.
David G. Blanchflower +2 more
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The Mongolian Script in the Baikal region at the Present Stage: a Course for Revitalization?
This paper aims to provide an analysis of the development of the Mongolian script in the sociocultural context of the Baikal region in modern times. The main purpose of this article is to characterize the key trends in society from the point of view of ...
Innokenty G. Aktamov +1 more
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PRESERVATION OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE IN MULTIETHNIC COMMUNITIES (THE ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENCE THE BURYAT OF THE INNER MONGOLIA OF CHINA) [PDF]
B.-Kh. B. Tsybikova, O. Battuya
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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The Linguistic Landscape of Ulaanbaatar: what Signs and People tell about
Introduction. The paper analyzes the linguistic landscape of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar in an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological context: at the junction of social semiotics, ethnography, and linguistic landscape studies as a ...
Erzhen V. Khilkhanova
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IMAGINATIVE SPECIFICATIONS OF LOOK IN MONGOLIAN LANGUAGES
The article examines figurative words of Mongolian languages, which characterize the glance and appeared in result of verbalization of visual perception. The author applies semantics of figurative words to the meanings of so called basic words of obscure etymology, particularly the verbs of seeing.
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ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between the stay rate of international university graduates, economic characteristics of their origin and destination countries, and proxies of their social networks. It contributes to the literature by jointly testing predictions of the neoclassical and migration network theories using regression ...
Filip Němeček
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