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Historical Analysis of the Semarang-Joana Tram Company or Stoomtram Maatschappij (SJS) From Colonial to Indonesian National Management in Central Java Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Endah Sri Hartatik, Wasino, Fitri Amalia Shintasiwi, Sri Indrahti
This text aims to conduct a historical analysis of the development of the Semarang-Joana Tram Company or Stoomtram Maatschappij (SJS) in the railway map of Indonesia from the Dutch Colonial era to ...
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Social stratification in Ethiopia from ancient to present: historical perspective Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Getahun Worku Tadesse
The objective of the study was to reconstruct the cause, phenomenon, and consequences of social stratification in Ethiopia from prehistoric times to the present. The researcher employed document an...
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Some factors affecting the prosperity of trade in Ethiopia, 14th–18th Centuries Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Mengistie Zewdu Tessema, Wondemeneh Adera Ayalew
Trade has long been one of the significant economic activities in the Ethiopian region and the Horn of Africa. However, some challenges had been hampering the development and prosperity of the trad...
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The empowerment of indigenous peasants through agricultural extension in Indonesia, 1900–1940 Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Effendi Wahyono, Nurul Huda
During colonial government, large plantations in Indonesia used indigenous peasants as unskilled laborers. In 19th century, the government began to pay attention to empower indigenous peasants by t...
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The impact of an industry-driven translation training program on the performance of trainee translators Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Buthainah M. Al Thowaini, Mutahar Qassem
This study reports on a quasi-experimental study on the effect of an industry-driven online translation training program on the translator trainees’ performance across five indicators: language, ac...
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Financial security of tutors in Ghanaian colleges of education; a pre-retirement and post-retirement analysis Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Bernice Oteng, Ronald Osei Mensah, Agyemang Frimpong
Our study sought to explore the pre-retirement and post-retirement housing and healthcare plans made by some tutors of colleges of education in Ghana by employing a qualitative descriptive design t...
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Entangled lives: a dialogic reading of the characters Heed and Christine in Toni Morrison’s Love Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Inger-Anne Søfting
This article investigates the construction of character in Toni Morrison’s novel Love, arguing that its characters are dialogically constructed in multiple ways and that this relational structure r...
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The farming ritual and the rice metaphor: how people of Kasepuhan Sinarresmi worship rice Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Ekaning Krisnawati, Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna, Rosaria Mita Amalia, Ypsi Soeria Soemantri, Kasno Pamungkas
Rice is the most important staple food in the world, and its management is therefore of vital importance. Rice management of the people of Kasepuhan Sinarresmi, Sukabumi Regency West Java, Indonesi...
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The Doba of Ethiopia In the 15th and 16th Centuries Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Mesfin Tadesse Belay, Mengiste Zewdu Tessema, Wubie Tadege Yenehun
This review article is a historical narrative of the Doba people, who inhabited the Northeast Amhara region and Southern Tigray in what is now referred to as Raya, Ethiopia. The timeframe under con...
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“The six-month bullet fence”: the voice of armed conflict survivors in Kobo and Agamsa districts, Amhara region of Ethiopia Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Shambel Desale Gashaw, Eyayu Kasseye Bayu, Endeshaw Aynetu Bitew, Getachew Gebyaw Tadesse, Tebaber Chanie Workneh
Following the politically motivated and ethnically induced war, Tigray People Liberation Front political and militia groups inflicted a deliberate massacre of civilians in the Kobo and Agamsa distr...
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A historical exploration of women’s production of Fante Kenkey at Yamoransa in Ghana’s central region Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Martha Alibah, Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-Mensah
Women’s contributions to development through their activities in the informal sector have been extensively examined in a plethora of literature. There is, however, a lacuna with respect to a focus ...
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Fantasizing history between subjectivity and objectivity Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Asem Baniamer, Noor Issa Allendi
This research delves into the intricate interplay between subjectivity and objectivity within the context of historical fantasizing. It also explores the potential for a symbiotic relationship betw...
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Motion verbs related to Javanese traditional fishing activities: a natural semantic metalanguage approach Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Agus Subiyanto, Nurhayati Nurhayati, M. Suryadi, Peter Suwarno
Javanese fishermen use motion verbs, some of which are semantically very complex as a single lexical item can encode more than four semantic components. Compared to motion verbs across languages, w...
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Metaphorical conceptualisation of happiness in Oromo Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Meseret Hailu, Feda Negesse, Girma Mengistu
Previous linguistic studies have not addressed how happiness is metaphorically expressed in Oromo and thus this study investigates the metaphorical conceptualisation of happiness in the language. T...
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A history of traitor of Qolla Dega Damot Awrajja, 1936–1941 Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Tesfaw Abebaw Ejigu
Firm patriotic opposition followed the Italian conquest of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, and other metropolitan centers in 1936. Even though Ethiopians had fought against the fascist a...
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Controlling the Brantas river: construction and impact of Japan-supported irrigation infrastructure on the agricultural economy and the environment in East Java Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Nawiyanto, Sarkawi B. Husain, Wisnu, Mohamad Nai’m
This article examines the crucial role played by Japan in the development of irrigation infrastructure in Indonesia from the 1960s to the 1990s. While the assistance provided by Japan in irrigation...
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Investigating the link between land service delivery and residential development in Ghana: a case study of Ampabame within Atwima Kwanwoma District in Kumasi Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Agyemang Frimpong, Ronald Osei Mensah, Maame Afua Nkrumah
The accessibility of appropriate land for private development has become of significant concern to, essentially, residential property developers. With Ampabame in view, the aim of this study is to ...
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Continuity and change process to sanctify the holy month of Muharram in the Suroan tradition Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ahmad Choirul Rofiq
Sacralizing the holy month of Muharram in Java or Suroan tradition (because Muharram is called Suro in the Islamic Javanese Calendar) is unique. However, the historical process of sanctification of...
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Framing environmental discourse. Greta Thunberg, metaphors, blah blah blah! Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Douglas Mark Ponton, Anna Raimo
This study focuses on the analysis of Greta Thunberg’s speeches, from the early mobilizations of Friday for Future (Thunberg, 2019) to the latest Conference of the Parties in 2022. We explore her u...
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Split topicalization as remnant movement: the case of Jordanian Arabic Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Eman Al Khalaf
This paper empirically and theoretically investigates the syntax of split topicalization in Jordanian Arabic, a previously undiscovered phenomenon. The results of a large-scale acceptability judgme...
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Morpho-semantic analysis of contemporary Swahili speakers’ linguistic innovations on microloan names Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Emmanuel Ilonga
Many studies on names have investigated the naming of people, plants, places, and inscriptions on transport facilities. However, very little is currently known about the naming of microloans, their...
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Azerbaijan’s dual foreign policy strategy toward Israel: a realist alliance and a neoliberal knowledge-based economy cooperation, 2011–2022 Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Daniela Traub, Ronen A. Cohen, Chen Kertcher
This paper argues that Azerbaijan’s dual foreign policy strategy toward Israel explains the strengthening of ties between the two states from 2011 to 2022. Most writings usually focus on realist ex...
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The lived experiences of St. John’s Grammar senior high school students: understanding the relevance of crime-related matters in Ghana Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Ronald Osei Mensah
The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the impact of crime prevention education on senior high school student’s knowledge and attitudes toward crime. The study was conducted using a ph...
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Patriarchal hegemony of Javanese kings power in Wulang Putri text Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Yusro Edy Nugroho, Sahid Teguh Widodo, Wasino, Pardi
Colonialism has turned the gender relations in Java into something considerably complex. Through marriage, women were positioned to promote the harmonization of strategic politics of kingdoms. Such...
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The vexed question of Ethiopian identity-driven politics and the discourse of political communication in the digital media sphere Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Dessalegn Yeshambel Wassie, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges, Biset Ayalew Nigatu
This study aims to examine the interplay between political communication and discursive practices in the emerging new media landscape after the recent political reform in Ethiopia. The study employ...
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Persuasive languages on political billboard of the 2024 Indonesian General Election in Padang City West Sumatra, Indonesia Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Fachri Bintang Farhan, Ike Revita, Oktavianus Oktavianus
Persuasive languages have advantages and strengths in influencing the public to achieve goals. Therefore, people use persuasive language widely in various communication events. In this regard, this...
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The Waltz King, Johann Baptist Strauss II (1825–1899): a psychobiography from a componential creativity perspective Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Paul J. P. Fouché, Elmé Strauss
This psychobiography was undertaken on the creative life of the eminent composer Johann Baptist Strauss II (1825–1899). As an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer he produced acclaimed waltz...
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Exploring flaming in the discourse of negative judgment: invoked strategies used by Indonesian netizens in Instagram comments Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Martutik, Anang Santoso, Abdul Rani, Bambang Prastio, Ahsani Maulidina
Flaming discourse is becoming more prevalent worldwide, yet research in this domain is still limited. This study, grounded in Appraisal Theory (AT), aims to explore the strategies employed within f...
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HEART metaphors in economic discourse corpora: conceptual evidence and translation insight Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Shrouq Almaghlouth, Leena Alotaibi
Deeply rooted in human cognition, metaphors have always intrigued researchers to examine what motivates them across different cultures. This paper attempts to investigate how HEART metaphors are ge...
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The genetic relationship between Alune, Lisabata, Luhu, and Wemale (Western Seram, Indonesia): a historical-comparative linguistics approach Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Hendrokumoro, Faradika Darman, Neni Nuraeni, Nadia Khumairo Ma’shumah
Language and cultural identity differences can easily lead to a small amount of warfare and confrontation due to a lack of sense of belonging. This study examined the genetic relationship of four l...
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Nexus of political tensions and cross-border contraband trade between Ethiopia and the Sudan, 1974–1991: evidences from Metema-Humera corridor and its environs Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Alemayehu Erkihun Engida
Based on a critical examination of untapped provincial archives, contemporary periodical sources, and extensive field interviews conducted with selected local elders in the border areas, this study...
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The challenges of regime change and political transition in Egypt and Libya after the Arab Uprisings: critical reviews of factors and implications Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin, Lise Storm
This article critically reviews the issues of the failure of democratic and political transition in Egypt and Libya in the post-Arab Spring Revolution. Several factors have been identified as the m...
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Ostensible Refusals in the Jordanian culture Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Saleem Abdelhady
This study comprehensively analyzes ostensible refusals, a type of ostensible communicative act. The research utilizes the Joint Action theory framework proposed by Clark to highlight the functions...
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Investigating Arabic-speaking EFL learners’ understanding of French gender markers: a typological primacy model approach to a third language Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Aseel Zibin, Ashraf Allawama, Mohammad Akayleh, Karam Naimat
This study examines how well Arabic-speaking EFL undergraduate students can understand gender-definite articles in French. Forty students studying French language and literature at the University o...
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Ethnic interaction and integration in Gondär (Ethiopia): the case of the Amhara and Tigre, 1930–1970s Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Tesfamichael Fentie Derso
This study focuses on the interaction and integration of the Amhara-Tigre people in Gondär from 1930 to the 1970s. Gondär is situated in the northwestern part of Ethiopia, in the Amhara Regional St...
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Personal is political: the alchemy of happiness in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Aisha Jadoon
From the title to the text, happiness matters in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. However, happiness has garnered less critical attention than the text’s political, cultural, social, gendered, and...
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The impact of cybercrime and social media on intellectual security and awareness with University students in KSA: a field study on students of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Shuruq Ismail Alsharif, Wesam Al-Qahtani, Areeb Alotaibi, Lujain Al-Subaie, Marwa Melhem
The study aimed to show the impact of cybercrime and social media on intellectual security and awareness with university students in KSA. To achieve the objectives of the study, a descriptive appro...
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Popular South African music on dominant local masculine ideals and their influence and societal response to the gender-based violence (GBV) pandemic Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Seluleko Eric Ngcobo
Abuse against women and minorities is a global issue that requires immediate attention. SA is one of the countries found to be grossly unsafe for women in the world. Current, evidence suggests that...
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Verbal predication negation in Dawurotsuwa Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Aklilu Abera Naba
This paper presents an analysis of the verbal negation of declarative main clauses in Dawurotsuwa. This study aims to describe verbal negation in Dawurotsuwa, a language that is scarcely described....
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A faith of one’s own: a Muslim woman writes back to Virginia wolf Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Aisha Jadoon
The persistent neglect of historical, biographical and experiential diversity of female gender across cultural locations in the mainstream feminist circles has turned re-writings of the classical f...
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The persuasive strategies in more and less prestigious linguistics journals: focus on research article abstracts Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs, Laila Mardini, Lutfia Alhabbad
Research article abstracts are widely recognized as a promotional genre since they aim to persuade the readers to read the rest of the articles. Hence, it is important for abstract writers to use e...
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Semantic scope ambiguity in gapping and non-constituent coordination: a generative analysis Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Eman Al Khalaf
Coordination has been thought to be a reliable test of constituency; thus all the cases of apparent non-constituent coordination (noncanonical coordination) were assumed to be derived via reduction...
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There is something special about a woman who dominates a man’s world: an African feminist critique of women characters in indlal’Inamanyala (obscenity) (1994) Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Mlamli Diko
The (re)production of women in isiXhosa literature cannot be disjointed from the social realities that women experience. Young girls are no exception to this view. In fact, women’s issues could be ...
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Ethnomedicine of the Sarolangun Malay community: an ecolinguistic study on medicinal plant and healing incantations Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Roekhan, Yuni Pratiwi, Imam Suyitno, Bambang Prastio, Ahsani Maulidina, Marzuki
Deforestation, advancements in healthcare technology and the diminished concern of younger generations in preserving ecological wisdom, particularly ethnomedical practices, raise concerns about the...
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Climate crisis literacy through media: a positive discourse analysis of selected Nepali media content Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Raj K. Baral, Purna Chandra Bhusal, Shankar Paudel
This article investigates the role of Nepali mass media, including radio, television programs, news reports, and editorials, in disseminating information and fostering awareness about the climate c...
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The emergence of the ‘Ai Khai’ worship and the social revival in post-COVID-19 southern Thailand: the interplay between local folklore and sacred tourism Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anutsara Ruengmak, Thanapas Dejpawuttikul
This article undertakes a critical analysis of the ascendancy of the Ai Khai (ไอ้ไข่) cult, a religious phenomenon involving youthful spirit believed to bestow wealth and fortune, located at Wat Ch...
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Social media and human development in Zimbabwe: opportunities and challenges Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Darlington Mutanda
This article employs the concepts of human development and social media as an open space/public sphere to frame the nexus between media and development. It seeks to answer questions, particularly o...
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‘What’s the word? That’s the word!’: linguistic features of Filipino queer language Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mark Bedoya Ulla, Jonathan Marcos Macaraeg, Renz E. Ferrera
Understanding queer language, which includes knowing its meaning and its applications, is essential not only for understanding sexuality and fostering language inclusivity but also for acknowledgin...
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Pragmatic analysis of refusal strategies in spoken English of Bahraini and Indian L2 learners Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Rawan Emad Al-Sallal
The present study investigated the pragmatic performance of Bahraini and Indian Second Language (L2) learners. The study explored the influence of factors (gender, social distance, and degree of im...
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The origin of the name Kecak dance, sociocultural context, symbolic power, and management challenges of the Indonesian tourism industry in global competition Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-22 S. Sukatman, Rusdhianti Wuryaningrum
This study aims to describe the origin of the name of the dance, the sociocultural context, symbolic meaning, symbolic power, and the development of thematic tourism services based on the Kecak dan...
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Guns end dreams: linguistic choices as trauma narrations in Baki and Adedoyin’s End sars rhythms Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-23 God’sgift Ogban Uwen, Edem Ekpo Ene
This paper examines the poetic presentation of the October 2020 #EndSARS protest as traumatic narrations in Baki and Adedoyin’s End sars rhythms. Drawing on insights from literary trauma theory and...
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Fiqh of tolerance and religious moderation: a study towards Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Kurnia Muhajarah, Moh. Erfan Soebahar
The issue of tolerance in religion is crucial to discuss because it is related to laws that allow or prohibit it, so pro-contra traditions arise between one group and another. The pros and cons of ...
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) research articles unpacked: a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) elemental genre approach Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Lin Zhao, Pramoolsook Issra
Over the past two decades, extensive research has been conducted on the rhetorical structure of research articles (RAs) from the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) genre approach. However, RA conf...
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Celebratory expressions and linguistic diversity: investigating congratulation patterns among Pakistani Facebook users commenting in English and Urdu Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Aisha Saleem, Musarat Yasmin
This study explores verbal and nonverbal congratulatory responses in the context of joyful Facebook status updates in Pakistani English and Urdu. Employing Terkourafi’s frame-based approach, quanti...
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Wartime residential rural landscapes the Guinea-Bissau case during the colonial/liberation war with the Portuguese (1963–1974) Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ana Vaz Milheiro
This paper aims to study the military housing campaigns carried out in the last 14 years of Portuguese colonialism (1961–1975), through archival and documentary treatment, cartography, historical a...
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An analysis of register variances between China and the US in international communications Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Guo Zhen
Translation of international communications plays an important role in facilitating the spread of a country’s voice and shaping its national image. This study employs multidimensional analysis to a...
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Exploring the vital role of human resource management in the progress of Uzbekistan’s tourism sector Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Karan Khurana, Zamira Ataniyazova
The tourism sector has enormous potential to positively impact the socio-economic dimension of Uzbekistan. The nation is ready to take advantage of globalization as a central theme and in this proc...
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Humans and animal welfare in the Adventures of the Mouse-deer: an ecological discourse analysis Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ika Nurhayani
The mouse-deer is a popular trickster character in Indonesian and Malaysian children’s folktales. The species was ubiquitous in Southeast Asia, but human activities have led to biodiversity loss an...
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Exploring complex diglossia in Javanese society Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Siti Rahmatia Ntou
This essay examines diglossia within the Javanese community, highlighting a complex, tiered language structure reflective of social hierarchies, expanding upon Fasold’s concept of double overlappin...
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Kriya practice from the perspective of ecofemism Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Wahyono
Environmental protection is one of the most serious issues that mankind confronts, and humans, from an anthropocentric perspective, are put at the center of managing nature. Grounded in a patriarch...