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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Beyond amnesty: Rethinking government's stabilisation efforts in Nigeria's Niger delta region
Olusegun Paul Adesanya, Victor Jatula, Rotimi Olajide Opeyeooluwa
Summary: In 2009, President Umaru Yar'Adua granted amnesty to militant groups in the Niger Delta to deescalate violence and address the region's issues. However, the study shows that the underlying problems persist and there is growing discontent in the communities.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
A comparative and epistemic approach to Anglophone and Latin American postcolonial theory and criticism
Jose-Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla
Summary: Postcolonial criticism is a recent critical approach, but there is insufficient comparative analysis based on its epistemology. This study demonstrates the existence of multiple epistemologies in postcolonial criticism by examining the evolution of Anglophone and Latin American postcolonial ideologies and criticisms. It reveals that these epistemologies are asymmetric but share common features and mutual benefits. Additionally, the study highlights the ideological shifts represented by the prefixes "post-" and "de-" in relation to colonial terminology in Anglophone and Latin American realms. Despite the shared desire for liberation from power structures and paradoxical convergence into globalization, these indicators showcase different levels of epistemic disobedience and social dissent.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
The comprehension of English compound nouns by Arabic-speaking EFL learners
Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh, Mohammad Alaghawat, Hiba Alhendi
Summary: This paper investigates the comprehension of English compound nouns by Arabic-speaking EFL learners majoring in English. The study examines the difficulties that these learners may face in understanding different types of compounds and analyzes the responses using statistical measures. The results show that there are significant differences between endocentric and exocentric subordinative compounds, suggesting that the former are more easily understood due to their semantic transparency and similarity to the participants' first language. The study provides pedagogical implications for teaching compound nouns to EFL learners.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Deconstructing fear in Indonesian cinema: Diachronic analysis of antagonist representations in half a century of Indonesian horror films 1970-2020
Justito Adiprasetio
Summary: The portrayal of antagonist characters in Indonesian horror films has changed over time, influenced by the cultural and social milieu of Indonesia. The study shows that the rise of supernatural horror movies in Indonesia is closely associated with a shift towards spirituality, while the portrayal of antagonistic characters with psychopathic tendencies has remained prevalent.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Folklore: An identity born of shared grief
P. Hoideiniang Zou, B. Evangeline Priscilla
Summary: The article establishes a shared understanding of grief in a complex folk society. Folklore, derived from human memory, expresses fundamental human emotions and experiences. It offers insight into transcending everyday communication patterns. Folklore maintains a sense of conscious identity until cultural shifts occur. The article explores the role of grief and identity, examining how shared grief contributes to self-identity formation.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Urban villages as living gallery: Shaping place identity with participatory art in Java, Indonesia
Ernest Irwandi, Setiawan Sabana, Andryanto Rikrik Kusmara, Tisna Sanjaya
Summary: Urban villages in Java, Indonesia have undergone a transformation from slums to colorful tourist destinations. Through participatory art projects, these villages showcase their local identities through murals, local food, and festivals. This study aims to understand the incorporation of art and design in the creation of place identity in these urban villages.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
A probabilistic semantics for modal QAD in standard Arabic
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal
Summary: This squib analyzes the modal use of the sentential particle qad in Standard Arabic, which only has certainty/likelihood modality meaning when it is composed with the tense expression of its propositional complement. Modal qad then manifests itself as an extreme, non-gradable modal with no lexically encoded but grammatically derived scale meaning. A probabilistic semantics is proposed to derive the truth conditions of the epistemic modal meaning of qad based on a monotonic, probabilistic time-world branching model. The analysis assigns a maximum degree of likelihood to qad in the past tense, which triggers certainty, and assigns a minimum degree of likelihoods to qad in the present tense, which triggers possibility.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Literature as transitional object. Between omnipotence and the relinquishing of magic investment
Daniela Carstea
Summary: This article discusses the new perspective that Edgar Allan Poe's writings offer on Donald Winnicott's model of the tolerance for paradox, specifically that ambiguous reference in fiction does not result in its being perceived as meaningless. The article argues that Poe's works aimed to resurrect the satisfying illusion of the transitional phase described by Winnicott. Literature serves as a space where the subject's illusion of creative power and omnipotence must confront the reality principle. Fiction, by being referential to a world that it does not refer to, establishes the foundation for the emergence of self and allows readers to experience the unspeakable as having a voice through their non-interfering presence.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
The portrayal of COVID-19 in Ethiopian song lyrics
Balew Demissie
Summary: The study examines COVID-19 lyrics in Amharic songs and finds that they serve as an emotional release, providing comfort and hope in difficult times. These songs raise awareness among Ethiopians about the importance of precautions, such as wearing masks and practicing social distancing. However, the limitations in audience representation, framing, messages, cultural contextualization, and artistry result in misinterpretations of the pandemic's aspects by listeners. The analysis of these lyrics offers valuable insights into the portrayal of the pandemic in Ethiopian cultural production.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Codeswitching in Arabic reality food competition shows through the lens of partial subtitling: A case study of the MENA adaptation of top chef
Mohammed Farghal, Ahmad S. Haider, Susan Abu Tair
Summary: This paper examines codeswitching in Arabic food competitions through analyzing selected episodes of the reality series Top Chef in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The study finds that codeswitching in describing food-related content mainly adopts translation techniques such as direct translation, explicitation, transliteration, addition, and omission. The results also indicate that the frequency of codeswitching is influenced by the competitor's gender and geographical area.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Construction of roles, obligations and values in politicians' discourses on anti-corruption
Ton Nu My Nhat, Hoang Thi Thu Hien
Summary: Corruption poses a significant challenge to Vietnam's development, affecting various aspects of society. However, there is a lack of scholarly research addressing this issue. This article explores the relationship between language and power in the construction of anti-corruption discourse in Vietnam, revealing how politicians strategically use language to emphasize their achievements and legitimize their actions. The findings contribute to understanding the power structures and ideologies in corruption discourse and highlight areas for further research.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Storied matter and literary creativity in Ahmed Alhokail's Roads and Cities
Nourah Alsuhaibani, Sitah Alqahtani
Summary: Ahmad Alhokail's novel "Turq wa Mudan/Roads and Cities" explores the dynamic relationship between culture and nature through a narrative map, highlighting the narrative agency of places and the embodiment of history and traditions.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Assessing the pragmatic competence of Arab learners of English: The case of apology
Shehdeh Fareh, Mohammad Nour Abu Guba, Inaam Hamadi, Asmaa Awad, Ayman Fareh
Summary: This paper aims to assess the pragmatic competence of Arab EFL learners at the tertiary level. The learners' ability to use the speech act of apology was evaluated through a specially designed discourse completion test. The study aimed to answer three questions: (1) What strategies do the participants use to express the speech act of apology? (2) What politeness strategies do the participants use in realizing this speech act? (3) What pedagogical implications may such a study have? The findings showed that the participants used 10 direct apology strategies and no indirect ones. Therefore, it is recommended to give more systematic attention to speech acts at the secondary and tertiary levels of education.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Using creative approaches for discovering biomorphic forms for appropriate human habitation in natural environments: Case study of Kashubian Lake District
Agnieszka Kurkowska
Summary: The research focuses on the natural and cultural conditions of the Kashubian Lake District and presents a creative method for finding suitable forms of human habitation. The project involves drawings and sculptures to identify biomorphic solutions that match the study site. The ultimate goal is to design houses in this region and provide design guidelines for residential buildings.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Revisiting Kenya's defunct Building Bridges Initiative: Quest for justice, or manipulation of collective memory for political expediency?
Albert Gordon Omulo
Summary: The Kenyan political reconciliation initiative, known as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), needs critical reassessment as it may have been motivated by succession politics. Grassroots perception of justice for victims of post-election violence differs from the BBI report, and Kenyans vividly remember the 2017 election cycle and its atrocities.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China's constructing Greater Bay Area
Fan Cao
Summary: This study explored the distribution and quantitative use of engagement resources in English news texts related to the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in two different phases. A total of 60 English news reports, each ranging from 800 to 1200 words, were collected and analyzed using the UAM corpus tool. The findings revealed that dialogic expansion resources were more prevalent in GBA news texts compared to dialogic contraction resources. The most commonly used strategy in the news reports was entertainment resources, while the least used strategy was distance resources. Furthermore, a significant difference was found in the distribution of the endorse strategy between the two phases.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Whose Museum? Collobaration and Contestation over Heritage Management at the Cultural and Museum Center Karonga in Malawi
Mwayi Lusaka
Summary: This article explores the establishment of the Cultural and Museum Center Karonga in northern Malawi through the collaboration of paleontologists, archaeologists, and the local community. Using qualitative interviews and documentary sources, it examines the tensions and conflicts that arose surrounding the management and ownership of the museum. The article raises questions about how to manage heritage that attracts interests from local, national, and international communities.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Internalizing Dehumanization: An Althusserian Anatomization of Jamil Ahmed's the Wandering Falcon
Usama Javed Iqbal, Shazia Bukhari, Roshaan Khalid
Summary: This article examines the ideological manipulation of people living in tribal areas of Pakistan using Jamil Ahmed's novel The Wandering Falcon as a basis. The Baloch people are denied their basic human right to own the land they live on. This resource-rich land, filled with mineral resources, is feudalized and exploited by landlords who sell it to international criminal organizations through their country's state apparatus. The media portrays the Baloch people as a terrorized image to justify this looting and seizing of land resources. Not only the state, but also other social institutions such as education and religion, play a hegemonic role in instilling a dehumanized identity in the Baloch people, denying them the right to call their living place their own and to demand proper education and healthcare facilities from the state. The hidden agenda of these institutions, including education, media, and religion, serves as the driving force behind this article.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
The effect of the workplace on women's language: A view from Jordan
Ola Musmar, Sharif Alghazo, Marwan Jarrah, Abdel Rahman Altakhaineh
Summary: This study examines the impact of the workplace on language use by Jordanian working women in terms of variety, lexis, and pronunciation. The findings indicate that the workplace significantly influences the language use of Jordanian women, with solidarity and professionalism being the main drivers for language modification in their workplace.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Social media: A watchdog or a conspiracy breeder?: COVID-19 disinformation among Iraqi students
Haitham Numan
Summary: The author examines the level of conspiracy belief among undergraduate students and their reliance on social media to reinforce their conspiracy theories. The study aims to determine the impact of conspiracy theories on how undergraduates explain and comprehend crises and events, as well as the extent to which exposure to misinformation on social media contributes to the conspiratorial interpretation of the COVID-19 spread. The research was conducted on a snowball sample of 331 students from two universities in Baghdad, and findings show that students heavily depend on conspiracies from social media and hold beliefs in government malfeasance.
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