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Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks
at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially
in regard to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like
public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health
needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family
and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems. The
narratives inform us about the dissimilarity between the way we
speak, what we hear and how we act. American society likes to give
the impression that it is listening to the plight of vulnerable
populations, but the stories in this volume prove otherwise.
Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives
(especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse
analysis, text grammar, folklore, performing arts and linguistics),
the authors of the volume investigate and illuminate pertinent
issues on democratization, elections and electioneering campaigns
and the constitution of order in an African context. The strategies
through which political actors and the media speak about important
policy issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, education, and
finance during presidential sessional addresses and political
campaigning are also elucidated. The extent of political ecologies'
impact on general elections, on policy issues, and on split-ticket
voting (especially what causes it to happen and its impact on who
gets elected and the consequent impact on party unity or
disintegration) are also given scholarly attention. Also elucidated
are is the entwinning of language, power, liberty, ideology and
representation and issues deemed politically nerve wrecking and
capable of entrapping political actors and causing the citizenry to
either lose confidence in them or even call for their resignation.
In this book, we present research on health issues in diverse
cultures and especially research around immigrants who came to the
United States from diverse backgrounds. Hispanic and Asian
Americans make up the fastest growing sector of the United States
population and immigrants are often unable to access, seek, or
receive health care due to several barriers. Research and also
clinical experience have found that recent immigrants who migrate
to the United States frequently experience a lack of access, high
costs, and difficulty obtaining medical insurance along with
barriers such as access to information, cultural or linguistic
obstacles, and an inability to understand the healthcare system.
Therefore in this book, we have tried to gain a better
understanding for the readers of the experiences that immigrants
undergo in the healthcare system through several research projects
presented herein.
The papers in this book answer the call by scholars in the fields
of Public Health, Community Health, Environmental Health and
Safety, Medicine, Bio-Statistics, and Decision Science, as well as
the call by political actors, policy experts, and various world
bodies dealing with health and safety in North Africa and the
Middle East, to address the intellectual lacuna left by the dearth
of scholarship on contemporary health, environmental, and safety
issues in the above-mentioned regions of the world. What is unique
about this edited volume is the extent to which the authors have
been careful in incorporating the general public's opinions about
the various public health and environmental health issues as well
as the unique views of the different genders. The topics covered
are broad and the depth is indisputably outstanding. Important
topics dealt with include HIV and AIDS, diabetes, hepatitis B and
C, as well as water and it's associated environmental,
agricultural, and health impact. Even more important and innovative
about this volume is the attempt by the authors to examine real
and/or actual views of the research populations on environmental
and public health issues based on participants' their religion;
that is, whether the Islamic religion plays any significant role,
for example, in determining the main characteristics of the
diabetes epidemic in Islamic countries world-wide in general, and
in the Arabian Peninsula in particular. There is no doubt that this
volume is a pathfinder in its geographic breath of covering two
politically important sub-regions of the world -- North Africa and
the Middle East. Even more important is the detailed attention the
volume devotes to Hepatitis B and C, especially, its impact on
migration. Most of the contributors are distinguished in the
subject area thereby making the volume authentic and most highly
respectable.
This book examines the various environmental factors which affect
the workplace atmosphere in businesses, with a particular focus on
indoor air quality. Topics discussed include antimicrobial
treatments of indoor mould and bacteria; an assessment of the
carbon footprint and how that will affect long-term pollution
emission reduction; indoor air quality, health and productivity;
antigenic/allergenic rubber proteins and environmental regulations
and environmental investing practices in Europe.
This yearbook deals with discourse within and across different
cultures.
The poems in this book address different themes. Some address
themes relating to human existence and limitations as well as
socio-emotional conflicts associated with humankind. Others address
such social issues as poverty, misery and despondency, the power of
love and the despair of betrayal, as well as negligence and
inaction by political actors of citizens' sufferings. In
particular, through the 'verbiage of the ancestors, ' the poet
admonishes society for its ills. He praises where praise is due,
urges the reader to reflect somberly on the society's misdeeds, and
strengthens the reader where necessary. Also, the poet addresses
the paradox of war and aggression, the consequences of warfare, and
the need not to hate even during times of war and conflict. He
'laments' about people holding back what they ought to give freely
to society and calls on citizens of the world to address the need
to work for the good of society. Finally, the poet sees forgiveness
as the mainstay for social harmony and warns that vindictiveness
can threaten our very existence on this planet.
The death of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, demonstrated
a great irony: a man so much maligned and rejected in life, should
be so praised and loved in death. The force of his personality, his
convictions in the face of powerful opposition, and his vision for
Ghana and a pan-Africa, are evident in his speeches. The
forty-seven speeches in this first of five volumes are arranged
chronologically, and were all made in the year 1960.
The death of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, demonstrated
a great irony: a man so much maligned and rejected in life, should
be so praised and loved in death. The force of his personality, his
convictions in the face of powerful opposition, and his vision for
Ghana and a pan-Africa, are evident in his speeches. The
forty-seven speeches in this first of five volumes are arranged
chronologically, and were all made in the year 1960.
The death of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, demonstrated
a great irony: a man so much maligned and rejected in life, should
be so praised and loved in death. The force of his personality, his
convictions in the face of powerful opposition, and his vision for
Ghana and a pan-Africa, are evident in his speeches. The
forty-seven speeches in this first of five volumes are arranged
chronologically, and were all made in the year 1960.
The death of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, demonstrated
a great irony: a man so much maligned and rejected in life, should
be so praised and loved in death. The force of his personality, his
convictions in the face of powerful opposition, and his vision for
Ghana and a pan-Africa, are evident in his speeches. The
forty-seven speeches in this first of five volumes are arranged
chronologically, and were all made in the year 1960.
The death of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, demonstrated
a great irony: a man so much maligned and rejected in life, should
be so praised and loved in death. The force of his personality, his
convictions in the face of powerful opposition, and his vision for
Ghana and a pan-Africa, are evident in his speeches. The
forty-seven speeches in this first of five volumes are arranged
chronologically, and were all made in the year 1960.
This book focuses on the analysis of communication within and
between cultures. Topics presented herein include various social or
human sciences which deal with discourse within and across
different cultures..
This book examines the analysis of language (possibly in
conjunction with other semiotic systems) in the course of our lives
as citizens of established politics of various scopes. Topics
discussed include the cultural consequences of economic migration
from Nigeria to the West; language, politics and democratic
governance in Nigeria; legitimisation and coercion in political
discourse; language endangerment; drawing an analytical framework
in search of "post-modern" Chinese and discursive strategies in
political speech.
Intercultural communications encompasses social or human sciences
(including political science, psychology, sociology, discourse
analysis, linguistics, literary and cultural studies, education,
etc.) which deal with discourse within and across different
cultures. This significant book presents important analyses from
around the globe.
This book focuses on the analysis of language (possibly in
conjunction with other semiotic systems) in course of our lives as
citizens of established polities of various scopes. It includes
social or human sciences (including political science, psychology,
sociology, discourse analysis, linguistics, literary and cultural
studies, education, etc.) insofar as they deal with discourse as
politic behaviour.
The papers in this volume fall under two main themes. The first
deals broadly with multilingualism and language contact in West
Africa in general and Cameroon in particular. Important topics
discussed in this section include: the structure and discursive
use(s) of the various forms and uses of Pidgin English, the ways
the French language and African languages have influenced each
other through loaning (both direct and indirect) and a description
of local forms of Africanised European languages (especially
French). The second part concerns language teaching and learning in
contact situations. Important topics discussed under this section
include: multilingualism and second language acquisition,
interference, a lexical appraisal of the language of second (third)
language learners, and the influence of European languages on the
learning of other European languages in West Africa. European
Languages; Pidgin English in Cameroon: A Veritable Linguistic Menu;
L'enrichissement du Francais en Milieu Fulfulde au Cameroun;
Emprunts au Pidgin-English dans le Francais du Cameroun: Situation
et Apports; Indirect Borrowing: A Source of Lexical Expansion; Le
Phonetisme du Francais Oral en Milieu Tupuri au Nord Cameroun;
Problematique de la Composition Nominale Toponymique dans les
Enseignes Publicitaires Camerounaises; La Siglaison Comme
L'Expression de la Cohabitation du Francais et de L'Anglais au
Cameroun; Multiligualism and Second Language Acquisition in the
Northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon; L'Allemande et le Francais
en Contact: Quelques Erreurs D'Interference des Apprenants
Camerounais de L'Allemand; The English of French-Speaking
Cameroonians: A Lexical Appraisal; L'Influence du Francais dans
L'Apprentissage de L'Espagnol Comme Langue Etrangere au Cameroun;
Contacts/Conflits des Langues, Insecurite Linguistique et
Implications Didactiques au Cameroun; Epilogue; Index.
In African societies, much as plain or direct language is cherished
and highly appreciated because of the pragmatic clarity it offers,
implicitness, indirectness, vagueness, prolixity, ambiguity and
even avoidance are even more cherished and preferred especially
when the subject matter of what is being communicated is difficult
or face-threatening. Verbal indirection, the communicational
strategy in which interactants abstain from directness in order to
avoid crises or in order to communicate 'difficulty', and thus make
their utterances consistent with face and politeness, is pervasive
in African (Akan) social interaction. This groundbreaking book
explores various linguistic and discursive devices speakers employ
when engaged in indirectness.;Among the linguistic and discursive
strategies discussed are the use of: pronoun mismatching, nouns
(especially proverbial names and other names with indirect
meanings), evasions, hedges and various forms of pre sequences
(which help to eliminate perceived obstacles to making such speech
acts as announcements, requests, or invitations), acknowledgement
of imposition, proverbs, metaphors, innuendoes, euphemisms,
circumlocution, riddles, tales, hyperbolas, and communication
through intermediaries or proxies.
This book addresses important issues to the democratisation and
development initiatives of developing countries. In many former
colonies, the government remains centralised, and many in the
population are unable to fully participate in its functioning. A
critical difference between being a subject and a citizen is the
ability to partake in governance. Such involvement requires
knowledge, literacy, and the availability of literature in local
and national languages. This book challenges policy makers and
scholars to find creative ways of fostering political empowerment
through developing language programmes.
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