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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"personal names"”.
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Semantic and pragmatic analysis of selected Namwanga personal names.
… and pragmatic meaning of selected Namwanga personal names. Specifically, the study sought to investigate the patterns of selected Namwanga personal names: determine the semantic and pragmatic meaning of selected Namwanga personal names: and to establish the social and cultural significance …
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The social and literary aspects of Zulu personal names
… on the "Social and Literary Aspects of Zulu Personal Names", may be divided into three sections: Firstly, A Comparative Analysis where both the concept and use of Zulu names are compared to those of other societies, particularly the black societies of Africa. Emphasis is given to use of names …
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An ontology of ethnicity based upon personal names: with implications for neighbourhood profiling
… an alternative ontology of ethnicity, using personal names to ascribe population ethnicity, at very fine geographical levels, and using a very detailed typology of ethnic groups optimised for the UK population. The outcome is an improved methodology for classifying population registers, as …
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Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach
… sought to examine independent clause Sesotho personal names as authentic social discourse using the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory. It sought to analyze their structure and map them to social functions to demonstrate that they are enacted messages in socio-cultural context of …
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Changing Personal Names and Titles in Written Farsi (1921-1978): A Sociolinguistic Study With Pedagogical Implications
… the Persianization and simplification of first names (FNs), last names (LNs) and titles (Ts). Persianization refers to the replacement over time of Arabic Ns and Ts with Persian Ns and Ts. Simplifications refers to the substitution over time of mono-lexical Ns and Ts for Ns and Ts that are …
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Personal name and immortality among Shona people : an African philosophical inquiry
… research work investigates the interplay between personal names and death and concludes that the two have been semantically and hermeneutically misinterpreted and misunderstood and, therefore, misconceptualised in favour of a certain metaphysical thinking that portrays personal names as …
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Use of feedback to improve institutional staff performance
… posted feedback graphs with either their own personal names or self-chosen anonymous codes to designate whose graphs were whose. These graphs were posted in each unit's training room and depicted participant performance (use of rewards and prompts) during behavioral training sessions with …
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Processing of proper names in Mandarin Chinese : a behavioral and neuroimaging study
Proper names have been considered as a universal language class (Bright, 2003; Müller 2004). The distinction between proper names and common nouns has been postulated since several thousand years in ancient Greek and in Chinese philosophy of language (e.g., Kripke, 1972; Wu, 1997). Furthermore, …
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Naming in the Mzimela tribal area
… certain occurence, for instance, some places and personal names, are named after some historical events and family matters that has taken place. The main aim in this research paper is to get and follow some few aspects that are used and considered by people in this area when naming things such as …
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The role of character names in the actualisation of themes in African prose fiction. the case of Andreya Masiye's before dawn, Binwell Sinyangwe’s a cowrie of hope, and noviolet Bulawayo’s we need new names.
Names and naming are an important aspect of literature as well as society. They act as tags and or referents to specific entities, both animate and inanimate. H uman beings as the centre of communication are not spared from the value of having names by which they are referred to. Personal names …
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The role of character names in the actualisation of themes in African prose fiction. the case of Andreya Masiye's before dawn, Binwell Sinyangwe’s a cowrie of hope, and noviolet Bulawayo’s we need new names.
Names and naming are an important aspect of literature as well as society. They act as tags and or referents to specific entities, both animate and inanimate. H uman beings as the centre of communication are not spared from the value of having names by which they are referred to. Personal names …
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A prosopographical analysis of society in East Central Scotland, circa 1100 to 1260, with special reference to ethnicity
… of charters, the adoption of common European names and the interaction of the chivalric ‘aristocratic diaspora’ with local landholding society through the methodology of prosopography. The role of aristocratic landholders as grantor, witnesses and recipients of charters was studied, based on …
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A Proposal for an American English/persian Transcription Scheme as A Bibliographic Control Tool
… control mechanism. Interpretation of proper names from one language into another has always been one of the major problems facing operators (i.e., catalogers, indexers and bibliographers) of bibliographic control systems. The motivation for this study grew from the realization that the …
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Η ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΑΣ ΒΕΡΟΙΑΣ ΣΥΜΦΩΝΑ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΙΚΕΣ, ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΕΣ
… A.D.) THE 1ST CHAPTER OF PART TWO EXAMINES THE PERSONAL NAMES (P. 266-292); CATEGORIES OF NAMES HAVE BEEN DISTINGUISHED, AND THE TIME OF THE APPEARANCE OF NEW CATEGORIES IS POINTED OUT, WHILE THE DISTRIBUTION OF NAMES IS INVESTIGATED THROUGH OUT THE REST OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA AND IN MANY CASES …
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The Catherine Byron Letters
… well as headnotes and additional annotations for personal names, places, and technical terms where they require elucidation. The resulting machine-readable XML documents have been made into a website on which I have collaborated with Professor Radcliffe.
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Strategies for translating proper names into lithuanian in the film series “x-men” /
… gaps between different societies, with proper names serving as essential elements in conveying identity, characteristics, and cultural nuances in texts, particularly in the field of film. This paper examines 102 proper names from the fiction film series “X-Men” and their translation into …
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A linguistic study of forms of address in Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic
… (including situational or domain-bound forms and personal, i. e. depending on the status and role-relationships of interlocutors. Part Two deals in greater detail with the description of different address-forms such as kin-terms, personal names, teknonyms, patronyms, nicknames, etc. which are used …
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UIA : a global connectivity architecture for mobile personal devices
… Nontechnical users now routinely own multiple personal devices, many of them mobile, and need to share information securely among them using interactive, delay-sensitive applications.Unmanaged Internet Architecture (UIA) is a novel, incrementally deployable network architecture for modern …
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