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Applying humour in Malaysian university settings: The perceptions of lecturers
This study investigated lecturers’ application of humour in Malaysian university settings. Eleven local Malaysian university lecturers from different local universities participated in this qualitative study.
Mazlin Mohamed Mokhtar +5 more
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Discourse Analysis of Ubayd Zakani’s The Treatise of One Hundred Advices Based on Critical Discourse Analysis [PDF]
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a theory derived from sociology and linguistics that posits that texts, while being influenced by prevailing socio-political conditions, can in turn influence and transform those very conditions.
Fatemeh Azizabadi +2 more
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This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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This article aims to integrate theoretical and methodological affordances of translation studies and cognitive linguistics to introduce a holistic methodology of translation analysis, which is based on the interpretation of the translated linguistic ...
Alla Martynyuk, Dinara Huliieva
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DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF LINGUISTIC MODELLING IN THE ENGLISH POLITICAL MEDIA DISCOURSE [PDF]
The article deals with pecularities of event models representation in modern English political media discourse on the material of social&political and economic newspapers and magazines, and publications on an online news and social networking service ...
Bezborodnikova Elena V.
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This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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Categorization and Pathology of Persian Stylistic Researches [PDF]
In following article, surveys and researches about Persian style were categorized in two branches of historical and formalistic styles Mohammad Taghi Bahar founded stylistics as an autonomous knowledge by publishing his book, History of the evolution of ...
Maryam Dorpar
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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