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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Anglicisation"”.
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
… is based on provide evidence of the process of Anglicisation which, some would have it, began with the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the twelfth century, or at least since it became English colonial policy to force them to retain a distinction upon the gradually assimilating English population …
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On the issues of language contact and language shift in Tok Pisin - focusing on two "non-standard" varieties: highlands pidgin and anglicised pidgin.
… to English. However, the degree of the anglicisation can very with situations, speakers and topics and, although earlier studies provide many important findings, few recent studies have been undertaken. Thus, the degree of anglicisation is examined according to each linguistic component …
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From Lineage to Legacy: Charles Garland Verrinder and Victorian Anglo-Jewish Music
… with a vague and often critical focus on the ‘anglicisation’ of synagogue music for purposes of British assimilation. Providing a new, music-focussed approach to this framework, I examine examples of Verrinder’s liturgical settings to shed light on how such an anglicisation was achieved and on …
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The G.A.A. a Contested Terrain
… defend traditional Irish cultural landscape from Anglicisation. It was thought that the increasing interest in Cricket, Rugby, and Football etc was ‘cleansing’ the Irish cultural landscape of any significant meaning. The GAA acted against this perceived Anglican naturalisation and organised itself …
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The Evolution of Written Bislama
… 4 and 5 and the present research shows that the anglicisation of written Bislama varies considerably between the genres. For some genres and in some of their sub-categories, there is evidence of decreolisation taking place. However, no generalisation can be made as in other genres the phenomenon …
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Recovering children’s reading: “Queer Treasures” of the Children’s Collection in Cork Public Library, 1922–1939
… as repositories of stock out of step with the de-anglicisation momentum.
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Cape Town at war: the city, lived experiences and loyalties, 1914-1919
… of Union, and Cape Town's particular history of Anglicisation. It also explores how war changed the experience of daily life, imbuing the city with war-related sights, sounds and symbols. The second part of the thesis emphasises that the war was a period of considerable infrastructural and …
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John Knox: reformation rhetoric and the traditions of Scots prose
… its most important feature was a drift towards anglicisation. In the introductory section, `The Myths, the Writer and the Canon', it is argued that, on the contrary, the latter assessment cannot be made definitively for textual reasons and is, in any case, irrelevant to literary criticism. …
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Jews and British Sport: integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, c1880-c1960
Between the 1890s and the 1960s, sport had a distinctive and varied impact on the social, cultural, political and economic life of the British Jewish community. During this period, Anglo-Jewry developed a clear sporting tradition, in both a direct and indirect sense, and their participation in the …