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Documentation and Language Learning: Separate Agendas or Complementary Tasks? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the indigenous communities of the Malintzin volcano highlands in Mexico, in the border region of the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala, speakers of Nahuatl have responded variously to the displacement of their language.
Francis, Norbert   +1 more
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 342-363, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
wiley   +1 more source

Francisco Nayari hace una petición al obispo Juan Ruiz Colmenero (1649). Análisis y traducción de una carta escrita en náhuatl por un hablante de cora

open access: yesTlalocan, 2020
Se presenta el análisis, la paleografía y la traducción de una carta escrita en náhuatl por Francisco Nayari, el tonati o dirigente cora, fechada en 1649.
Álvaro J. Torres Nila
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biopiracy and beauty brands? patent trends of cosmetics and skin care companies

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 640-664, July 2025.
Abstract Concerns about the fairness and equity of ‘biodiscovery’ research endure despite the creation of legal frameworks designed to regulate access and benefit sharing involving genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. While some industries that engage in biodiscovery have been the subject of sustained scrutiny, others have received ...
David J. Jefferson, Daniel F. Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 4, April 2025.
Abstract Harmonic word order is a well‐established tendency in natural languages, which has previously been explained as a single ordering rule for all head‐dependent relations. We propose that it can be more parsimoniously explained as an outcome of word‐class frequencies, where the purported “head” is the most frequently instantiated word class in a ...
John Mansfield, Lothar Sebastian Krapp
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging divides: A proposal for integrating the teaching, research and revitalization of Nahuatl [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper discusses major historical, cultural, linguistic, social and institutional factors contributing to the shift and endangerment of the Nahuatl language in Mexico.
Olko, Justyna, Sullivan, John
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Análisis de elementos gráficos de contenido occidental en los glifos de los códices coloniales del centro de México: el caso de los antropónimos castellanos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this text, we present the study of Spanish anthroponyms containing «Western» elements. We analyze the «loans» that the tlacuiloque or indigenous scribes borrowed in order to express these names in a traditional graphic form.
Batalla Rosado, Juan José
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Value of communication, value of language: Nahuatl speakers and public health services in Sierra Norte de Puebla

open access: yes, 2020
This paper is based on the data collected during fieldwork in the northern part of Mexico’s state of Puebla in 2018–2019. During that period, there was a need to gather information that would serve as a starting point for the participatory-action ...
Gregory Haimovich   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

National climate scenarios: (un)building climate knowledge and inducing environmental ignorance in Mexico

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 1, January‐June 2025.
Abstract The interactions between climate information producers and local decision‐makers have remained largely underexplored. The processes of building a local climate research agenda and informing adaptation policies are still unknown in many Global South countries.
Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

African American Language in science education: A translanguaging perspective

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 228-269, January 2025.
Abstract Ideologies of language and race are deeply connected in the United States. Language practices associated with racially marginalized communities, such as African American Language (AAL) or Spanglish, are often heavily stigmatized. Such stigma is not grounded in empirical research on language, but rather in “raciolinguistic ideologies” that ...
Quentin C. Sedlacek   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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