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Gender relations are enacted in the day-to-day lived experiences of men and women. Mundane practices such as talks and jokes may not only reflect the prevailing gender relations in society, but may also offer opportunities to contest them. Stand-up…

Great post-independence migration from rural areas to urban centers has brought contact and competition to African linguistic gene pools. In Nairobi, Kenya, the main contestants are a trio of English, Swahili, and the indigenous language, making the…

Phonology can be defined as the study of sound patterns and their meanings both within and across languages. There are innumerable appraisals of scholars on the phonology of French and Yorùbá languages as twin-sisters with little attention paid to…

The didactics of spelling in question: experimental study with an adult audience
Writing in all its forms guarantees the survival and persistence of human thought, which is how it is transmitted from generation to generation. At the heart of this…

Stand-up comedians do not only aim to get their audience entertained. They also try to trigger audience epistemic and ideological engagement with different humour contents. This is done by them through the transactional frames of ideologies and…

Linguistic and extralinguistic aspects in Translation
Translation as a sub-discipline of Applied Linguistics is today a scientific interdisciplinary practice. Culture as intertwined with language could not therefore, most of the time, be separated…

Anglophone linguistic imaginary in relation to official bilingualism in Cameroon
The author of this article examines, from a sociolinguistic angle, the image that the English- speaking Cameroonian believes to be the one that the French-speaking…

This paper focuses on the ideologies surrounding language that are produced by a cohort of students in their first year at a South African university, in order to investigate how dominant power- discourses are reproduced. An assignment asking…

Translators in the merry-go-round of perspectives: reciprocal suggestions for translation and intercultural philosophy
This article deals with the question of how selected insights from intercultural philosophy can enrich translation studies. This…

The concept of literature according to Mustafa Nasif
Mustafa Nassef is considered one of the poles of contemporary Arab criticism who was inhabited by the awareness that prompted him to search for a special critical method for Arabic literature.…
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