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Internet: Culture Diversity and Unification [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Culture specifics of the Internet usage is analysed. The analysis done is a preliminary work for the application of the socio-historical theory of human mental development.
Voiskounsky, Alexander E.
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Experiences of parents of children with special needs: Educational services, challenges and recommendations from parents' perspectives

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Parents of children with special needs in Nigeria are faced with several challenges. In most cases, decisions are taken without their active involvement, despite them being the primary carers for their children with special needs. This research utilised a qualitative research design with fifteen participants to understand parents' perspectives
Noah Agbo, Sylvia Yeboah Boamah
wiley   +1 more source

West African Pidgin: World Language Against the Grain

open access: yesAfrica Spectrum
West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a cluster of related, mutually intelligible, restructured Englishes with up to 140 million speakers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, and The Gambia.
Kofi Yakpo
doaj   +1 more source

LANGUAGE SITUATION AND LANGUAGE POLICY IN NIGERIA

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017
The article deals with the language situation and language policy in Nigeria which is one of the most polyethnic African states. Sociolinguistic situation in the country is very complex because there are more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria which speak
Anna A Borisova, Nadezhda Yu Ilina
doaj   +1 more source

West African English in Digital Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper applies sociolinguistic and discourse-analytical approaches to examine the features of West African English (WAE) in digital discourse. Data comprises 23,374 posts and responses from some popular social and political online forums hosted by ...
Chiluwa, Innocent
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

“Two Sides of the Same Coin”: Yokohama Pidgin Japanese and Japanese Pidgin English

open access: yesActa Linguistica Asiatica, 2017
The paper is a comparative overview of the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese and Japanese Pidgin English, formerly spoken in Japan. Both varieties are shown to exhibit features typical of pre-pidgins, while they differ
Andrei A. AVRAM
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Dialogues : Scotland + Venice 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Alberto Campo Baeza writing in the catalogue, Young Spanish Architecture, an Ark Monograph of 1985, talks about, ‘’a world riddled with noise and yet paradoxically mute, creatively speaking, a group of young Spanish architects are playing a very engaging
Charley, Jonathan
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Adapting to Change: The Dynamic Crop Production Systems of Smallholder Farmers in the PNG Highlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder sweet potato farmers in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands Province (EHP) face challenges as they navigate social, economic, demographic, and environmental change. While they routinely adapt to weather variability and shifting markets, population growth is placing additional strain on an already finely balanced farming system ...
Geoff Kuehne   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, April 23, 1997 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Volume 108, Issue 57https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9132/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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