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Domesticated Mammoths: Mythic and Material in Nenets Verbal Tradition on "Ya' Xora"
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Lukin, Karina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This article discusses language materialities and the Otherworld through the findings of mammoth remains and text-artifacts representing Nenets verbal art. The remains and verbal art are read together as a network of mythic knowledge that forms a semiotic whole, where different signs interact and create potentials for new significations. The…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Mythology, Networks, Semiotics
Chronotopes, Entextualization and Syrian Political Activism on Facebook
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Sinatora, Francesco L. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
This article discusses the intersection of language choice, identity and online political activism in the context of the 2011 Syrian uprising by bringing together the notions of "entextualization" and "chronotopes." The data is drawn from a longitudinal analysis of two Syrian dissidents' Facebook pages between 2010 and 2012 as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Self Concept, Political Attitudes
Linguistic Landscapes and the Sociolinguistics of Language Vitality in Multilingual Contexts of Zambia
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Banda, Felix; Jimaima, Hambaba – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
The article illustrates a sociolinguistics of language vitality that accounts for "minority" and unofficial languages across multiple localities in dispersed communities of multilingual speakers of Zambia where only seven out of seventy-three indigenous languages have been designated official and "zoned" for use in specified…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Maintenance, African Languages, Foreign Countries