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Documentation and Language Learning: Separate Agendas or Complementary Tasks? [PDF]
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
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
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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
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Biopiracy and beauty brands? patent trends of cosmetics and skin care companies
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
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A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order
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
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Bridging divides: A proposal for integrating the teaching, research and revitalization of Nahuatl [PDF]
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]
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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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
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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
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African American Language in science education: A translanguaging perspective
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
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