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Download full textDavoodifar, Mahboobeh; Asl, Moussa Pourya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This work utilizes Foucault's articulations on the power strategies of our contemporary society. To him the subject's constitution is never a purely passive effect of power on the subject but requires the subject's own activity. This necessitates the existence of a dynamic, mutually affecting relationship, implying that one can be both dominated…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Power Structure, Authors, Foreign Countries
Stewart, Osamuyimen Thompson – 1994
The serial verb construction (SVC) in Edo (Bini), a language spoken in Nigeria, is examined, and an analysis that systematically characterizes the notion of functional relationship of verbs within these constructions is proposed. It is argued that the verbs in series are sensitive to different semantic and grammatical phenomena and are therefore…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bini, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Awad, Maher – 1994
A discussion of Bolanci (also Bole or Bolewa), a West Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria, focuses on one component of the system of complementation, the form "na." This form has an inherent semantic capable of influencing the meaning of sentences in which it is embedded, specifically, when present in a complex sentence,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Schaefer, Ronald P.; Egbokhare, Francis O. – 1994
A study of Emai, an Edoid language of south-central Nigeria, focuses on the system of constraints governing tonal processes. Specifically, it examines the ways in which general processes of low tone raising and high tone lowering are realized in domains constructed by verbs and by preverbal auxiliary and adverbial constituents. Sequentially…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
Bissonnette, Ronald, Ed.; And Others – 1990
The following are English translations of the titles of papers presented at the International Center for Research on Language Planning's fourth annual conference on student linguistic research: "Semantic Study of Piscatorial Vocabulary in the Dominican Republic"; "Some Aspects of Economic Translation"; "Bibli: Software for…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French
PDF pending restorationRebuffot, Jacques – 1993
A discussion of French immersion education in Canada begins with a general examination of language immersion, including the historical context and social climate from which the immersion approach has grown in Canada, its beginnings in Quebec and spread throughout Canada, and the status of the approach in the United States, a number of European…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Education, Cultural Context, Educational Benefits
