Timescapes and the vernacular language of Cuba’s popular economies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Lubiński
Keyword(s):  
Vernacular Language

Identities Left Behind

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Individual Trait ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Capacity To Aspire ◽  
Slum Settlements

In this chapter, stories of young men and women who live in basti (slum settlements) near one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Pune, India, are analyzed. It is argued that the basti youth’s “capacity to aspire” is not just an individual trait or a psychological ability. Rather, their aspirations are shaped by their caste identities, structural conditions of poverty, their narrative capacity, their schooling in vernacular language, and the prestige accorded to speakers of English language in urban India. The stories of the basti youth are characterized as dispossessed because they are shaped by and connected to the possessions of the dominant class who live nearby and the unequal structural conditions of their basti. These stories reveal that globalization, by and large, has exacerbated the structural inequality in the slum settlements in Pune. Structural inequality refers to a system that creates and perpetuates an unequal distribution of material and psychological privileges .

Problems with the Interpretation of the “Slovak Reformation”

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-318
Author(s):  
Eva Kowalská
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Movement ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact

AbstractStructural problems of communities affected by the “Slovak Reformation,” issues with accepting the situation or simply the relationships among various cultural phenomena, like literacy or language policies, are key aspects in studying the impact of the Reformation in Hungary, especially with respect to Slovaks. Information gathered from the Reformation had a direct and long-lasting impact on the formation of vernacular language, as well as on the search for and the construction of an ethnic identity. Searching for evidence left by the Slovak presence in the Reformation movement thus presents challenging though notable problems for Slovak historiography. The confessional division and its political as well as cultural implications have evoked long-lasting discussions among historians as well as politicians. This study focuses on the most relevant issues within these processes.

scholarly journals Language shift, bilingualism and the future of Britain's Celtic languages

2010 ◽  
Vol 365 (1559) ◽  
pp. 3855-3864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kandler ◽  
Roman Unger ◽  
James Steele
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Transitional State ◽  
Endangered Language ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Celtic Languages ◽  
Shift Dynamics ◽  
Demographic Trajectories

‘Language shift’ is the process whereby members of a community in which more than one language is spoken abandon their original vernacular language in favour of another. The historical shifts to English by Celtic language speakers of Britain and Ireland are particularly well-studied examples for which good census data exist for the most recent 100–120 years in many areas where Celtic languages were once the prevailing vernaculars. We model the dynamics of language shift as a competition process in which the numbers of speakers of each language (both monolingual and bilingual) vary as a function both of internal recruitment (as the net outcome of birth, death, immigration and emigration rates of native speakers), and of gains and losses owing to language shift. We examine two models: a basic model in which bilingualism is simply the transitional state for households moving between alternative monolingual states, and a diglossia model in which there is an additional demand for the endangered language as the preferred medium of communication in some restricted sociolinguistic domain, superimposed on the basic shift dynamics. Fitting our models to census data, we successfully reproduce the demographic trajectories of both languages over the past century. We estimate the rates of recruitment of new Scottish Gaelic speakers that would be required each year (for instance, through school education) to counteract the ‘natural wastage’ as households with one or more Gaelic speakers fail to transmit the language to the next generation informally, for different rates of loss during informal intergenerational transmission.

Performance of supply chain management and digitalization of human resource information in SMEs

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ansa Savad Salim ◽  
M. M. Sulphey
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Resource Information ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The aim of this study is to determine the influencing factors of Supply Chain Management and digitalization of human resource information practices in the small and medium enterprises of Oman. Digitalization of human resource information is the adoption of electronic means to the human resource activities of Supply Chain Management. In this system, the whole human resource activities are implemented through electronic means with the support of information technology (IT) infrastructure. To measure the Digitalizationof Human Resource Information Practices and the performance level of Supply Chain Management, two adopted constructs from two different studies were used. The study samples were taken from the SMEs of Oman. Almost 180 employees of different provinces responded to the questionnaires translated into vernacular language through google forms and a few hardcopy surveys were distributed to different locations with the support of SMEs and few entrepreneurs. The study found a significant positive relationship between the Performance of SCM and the Digitalization of Human Resource Information of a prominent variable electronic communication and other variables were found with no significant relationship. The finding of the study acts as a significant contributor to the existing literature on SCM as well as human resource management.

scholarly journals Japanese Character Input: Its State and Problems

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Ichiko Morita
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Computer Processing ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Japanese Character ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Input ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
Large Research

<p class="p1">Computer processing of information is highly advanced in japan, and it continues to be researched and improved by the cooperative <span class="s1">efforts </span>of the government, private corporations, and individual scientists, who are among the best in the world. This paper introduces various approaches to the computer input of information currently developed in japan, and discusses the possibility of their applications to the processing of East Asian-vernacular language materials in large research libraries in this country.</p>

scholarly journals The Other Vernacular: Commoner Knowledge Culture Circa 1919

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Judge
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
May Fourth Movement ◽  
Linguistic Form ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Fourth Movement ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
May Fourth

This essay complicates our understanding of the May Fourth Movement of the late 19teens by isolating a layer of culture that was integral to the era but largely forgotten in later scholarship. This cultural layer of discourse and practice intersected with two of the Movement’s most iconic projects – connecting with “the people” and establishing a vernacular language. This view from the cultural margins helps us excavate the less known byways and potentialities of what has come down to us as an epochal history. It further leads us to question the inevitability of established historical trajectories: from May Fourth populism to the mass politics of the PRC, from the vernacular movement to the linguistic form that stabilized to become baihua.

scholarly journals Popular Religious Traditions, British Military Recruitment and the Social Construction of Masculinity in Colonial Haryana

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Rekha Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Physical Culture ◽  
Endogenous Factors ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
British Military ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ownership Of Land

It is generally assumed that colonial institutions and ideologies shaped the contours of masculinity in British India. This paper explores endogenous factors and attempts to supplement as well as contest such approaches and interpretations which claim that masculinity in India was a colonial construction. The emphasis is on folk traditions, religious customs, qaumi (folk) tales and physical culture akh???s (gymnasia) among the Jats in colonial Haryana,1 which went into the making of dominant masculinity in this region. The paper draws upon vernacular language materials and newspapers to analyse the different ways in which the socially endogenous forces constructed this masculinity. It argues that a complex interaction of popular religious traditions, qaumi narratives, military recruitment, marital caste designation, ownership of land, superior caste behaviour and strong bodily physique came to ideologically link and construct dominant masculinity in colonial Haryana.

scholarly journals «Arte románico y epigrafía romance. Las primeras imágenes de la lengua vulgar en Italia, Francia y España»

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 131-160
Author(s):  
Daniel Rico Camps
Keyword(s):  
Close Connection ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Romanesque Art ◽  
The Church ◽  
Different Levels

Resumen: En este ensayo se analizan las primeras inscripciones en lengua vulgar de lla Europa románica. Se trata de un pequeño corpus de trece inscripciones o unidades epigráficas de los siglos xi y xii, once de las cuales fueron concebidas y realizadas en estrecha articulación con motivos o programas iconográficos. El autor trata de dilucidar la imagen (voluntaria o involuntaria) de la lengua romance que hay detrás de cada una de ellas, llegando a distinguir hasta tres niveles de uso de la lengua por parte de la Iglesia, a los que califica respectivamente de «neutro o utilitario», «expresivo sin función pastoral» y «expresivo con función pastoral». En conjunto, el debut epigráfico de las lenguas romances fue muy limitado, pero también muy creativo y experimental, en consonancia con el propio arte románico en cuyo marco se produjo.Palabras clave: Epigrafía vulgar. Lenguas romances. Arte románico.Abstract: This essay explores the first vernacular inscriptions in Romance Europe. These are a small corpus of thirteen inscriptions or epigraphic units from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, of which eleven were designed and carried out in close connection with iconographic programs or motifs. The author tries to elucidate the conscious or unconscious image of the vernacular language that there is behind each of them, and he comes to distinguish three different levels of using the vernacular by the Church, which are respectively defined as «neutral or utilitarian», «expressive without pastoral function», and «expressive with pastoral function». On the whole, the epigraphic debut of the vernacular languages proved to be very limited, but it was also really creative and experimental, in line with the artistic framework in which it was produced, Romanesque art.Keywords: Vernacular epigraphy. Vernacular languages. Romanesque art.

scholarly journals Reflective Writing on an ESL Writing Course

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-56
Author(s):  
Anna Wärnsby ◽  
Asko Kauppinen ◽  
Damian Finnegan
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Esl Writing ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Course Grades ◽  
Writing Course

Research shows that student reflective writing is a valuable window into student learning, particularly student metacognition; however, our knowledge of the challenges of accessing metacognition to inform curriculum design and assessment practices in the ESL (English as a Second Language) context is less robust. This paper reports two qualitative studies of student reflective writing on an ESL writing course within a teacher education programme. The studies investigate how student metacognition manifests itself in reflective papers and how mapping student metacognition can inform evidence-based curriculum design and assessment. The data comes from several iterations of an ESL writing course and is analysed using directed and conventional content analyses. Our results expose a complex relation between metacognition, curriculum design and assessment practices: 1) unless scaffolded by the curriculum design to use precise terminology, students resort to expressing their understanding of the course content in terms of everyday, vernacular language and 2) student reflective writing not only provides a more nuanced picture of their learning than the final course grades but is invaluable for developing scaffolding and assessment practices. Based on our results, we recommend integrating structured reflection as part of the regular curricula to gauge ESL student metacognition and monitor more precisely their uptake of course content.

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