Linguacultural concept, which is a conditional mental unit, is a comprehensive study of language, consciousness and culture. This study examines linguacultural and cognitive image of personages in the works of Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov (1897-1961). This study reveals linguacultural and cognitive mechanisms of word transformation in a literary…

Subjects like linguistics, anthropology, and literary theory have extensively examined the complex relation between cognition and culture, with a specific focus placed on how subjects perceive literary texts and narrative forms. This study examines how mid-20th-century Arab societies shifted from critiquing literature to critiquing ideas,…

This paper reports on a short project undertaken with student English teachers during their one year Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) teaching course that considered the potential inclusion of the novella "The Woman of Colour" into their teaching. The research considers how the student teachers received the text and the…

This article analyses experiences of old age and ageism in the trajectories of Indian women academics in post-Independence higher education, drawing on narrative sources such as life-writing and fiction. It focuses primarily on writing by the late Jasodhara Bagchi, 1937-2015, and Nabaneeta Dev Sen, 1938-2019, who worked within public funded higher…