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Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 315-334, June 2022., 2022
Abstract As the Mongolian language is equated with ethnic survival in Inner Mongolia, the metadiscourse of Mongolian linguistic purism has become a vital tactic for enacting Mongolian identity and creating a counterspace against Chinese linguistic and cultural hegemony.
Gegentuul Baioud, Cholmon Khuanuud
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The 203rd Third Meeting of the American Oriental Society

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1993
The annual meeting featured panels on the Ancient Near East and Art History; East Asia; Islam, South, and Southeast Asia; The Ancient Near East; and Linguistics. In this report the sessions on Islam are covered.
Muhammad Akram
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Lexicography of the Syrian dialect of Arabic: Sources and dictionary [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
This study focuses on the development of an algorithm for constructing the vocabulary of a Syrian dialectal multimedia dictionary. The significance of this research stems from the inadequate representation of Syrian dialectal lexicon in existing ...
Aida D. Haddad, Amr A. A. Khalil
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THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK LINGUISTIC TRADITION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIEVAL SYRIAC GRAMMAR

Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology, 2021
The article is devoted to the development of medieval Syriac linguistics, which has undergone great influence from ancient Greek grammar, especially Dionysius Thrax’s grammar. After a brief description of the history of Syriac language, the major grammarians who reflected the Syriac linguistic tradition in their writings are listed.
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Review article: Small futures. sortilege, divination and prognostication in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages

, 2023
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 297-307, May 2023.
Carine van Rhijn
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A linguistic, analogical, and computational analysis of the Syriac d-stem in Psalms I-XXX according to the Peshiṭta version

, 2023
The function of the Semitic Doppelungsstamm, or D-stem, has proven one of the most vexing problems in Semitic linguistics. While grammarians regularly associate the D-stem with some manner of plurality, the precise contours of this relationship have remained obscure.
Volkmer, Jeffrey, Taylor, David
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Between Two Worlds: Cultural Bereavement, Intersubjective Memory and the Politics of Identity in the Lebanese American Immigrant Experience

Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on oral history interviews conducted in 2025 with Lebanese and Arab American immigrants and their descendants, archived at the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (GR0020, NC State University), to develop a cultural‐psychological framework for understanding the psychic dimensions of migration without ...
Anastasia Christou
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Advancing Health Equity for Men From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds: Outcomes From a Culturally Adapted Community Wellbeing Program

Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Volume 37, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities are recognised as a priority population within Australia's preventive health strategies. Community‐based wellbeing programs can enhance mental and physical health, but culturally tailored approaches are essential for engaging CALD populations and reducing health inequities ...
Michelle C. Attard, Camilla L. Brockett
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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