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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"naming practices"”.
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An analysis of brand naming practices implemented by oriented strandboardwaferboard manufacturers
North American oriented strandboard/waferboard producers were surveyed to assess the corporate rationale and product policy decisions employed in formulating branding strategies. The effectiveness of their branding policies was examined from a retail perspective by surveying 1,350 building material …
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A Community Based Study of Married Women's Naming Practices: Norms and Traditions, Individual Identity, and Meaning
My research provided two main findings. First, while all participants in the study changed their names in form, there was resistance to the predetermined meaning of the practice of patronymy across all categories of analysis---norms and traditions; individual identity; and meaning. The second main …
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Building Meaningful Relationships with Students
… want to be a part. Studies have shown that naming practices are an important topic in diverse classrooms, as some students with Non-Eurocentric names are being “renamed”, and as a result, lose a part of their identity. To best support these students, researchers recommend student-centered …
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The life stories of a woman from Rosebud: Names and naming in 'Lakota Woman' and 'Ohitika Woman' (Mary Brave Woman Olguin, South Dakota)
… Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman which relate to naming and, through the use of ancillary material, I illustrate the ways in which the patterns call up Lakota naming practices. The honoring of names is integral to traditional Lakota culture and finds expression in Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman …
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Property, Identity and Place in Seventeenth-Century New England
… of settlement and how commodification and naming practices helped in translating the landscape into a familiar, useful and, most importantly, English place. This continues in Chapter Two with a study of the distribution and construction of towns, boundaries and familiar patterns of …
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Media representations of gender in the Scottish public sphere in the context of the 2014 independence referendum
… of discourse but with more informal naming practices used for female politicians.There was also evidence of a personalisation of political figures, although in this case a higher amount of discussion focused on male leaders. Contrary to findings of comparable studies, both male and …
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Born of war in Colombia: Narratives of unintelligibility, contested identities, and the memories of absence
… imaginary of human rights organisations through naming practices that assume they are defined by the violence that conceived them. At the local level these children’s identities are dynamic and their experiences are connected to the experiences of their mothers within their cultural and moral …
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Ko wai tō ingoa? The transformative potential of Māori names
… In particular, the thesis reveals how whānau naming practices endure and are important for whānau identity and belonging. A Kaupapa Māori theoretical approach is used to highlight the mana of our ingoa tangata within te ao Māori (the Māori world). I analyse the experiences of six generations …
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The Gateway of tomorrow: modernist town planning on Cape Town's Foreshore 1930-70
… be shown in the various commemorative events, naming practices, monuments and buildings that arose on this contested space. This will also highlight the recurring contestations and negotiations between local (City Council) and national (South African Railways and Harbours) authorities.
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Selected aspects of language contact in the case of Czech, with a particular focus on lexical borrowing and changing attitudes to the self and others
… and a detailed article on the implications of naming practices for perceptions of the self and others (‘The Czech-speaking lands, their peoples and contact communities: titles, names and ethnonyms’). Extensive use is made of original material, including two nationwide quantitative surveys …
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A CASE STUDY IN TOPONYMY: SAMPLING AND CLASSIFYING A TRI-LINGUAL PLACE NAME INVENTORY FOUND IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL STATE OF NEW MEXICO
… typology assisted the comparison and contrast of naming practices of the namers and those who have used them over generations since. An area was selected for this study that employed names found in the database of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names associated with four U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 …