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Jeffrey Hanson, Brian Harding, and Michael R. Kelly, (eds.). "Michel Henry’s Practical Philosophy."
No full textTHE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSIONS OF OPPRESSION: EXAMINING THE GENDER-RELATED IDEOLOGICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH VIOLENCE AGAINST GIRLS AT THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL LEVEL
No full textThe problem of violence against girls in Nigeria has attracted scholarly attention from a number of empirical and theoretical vantage points. This scholarship is vitally important. It has helped thrust feminist and other anthropological discourse into an arena of anti-violence work with significant impacts on, and repercussions for, girls in Nigeria. However, despite systemic change over the past years, the problem of violence against girls in Nigeria — as in Africa generally — persists. A consensus has emerged in the literature that cultural and social norms are relevant to the persistence of violence against girls in Nigeria. Without understating that relevance, this article analyses the problem from a different perspective. Cultural, religious, ethnic, and social norms have figured increasingly in the conceptual frameworks of both international and national institutions, distracting attention from the ways in which ideologies confronting girls are actually embedded within organisational structures of control. Important as it may be to understand the ways that these norms have given rise to violence against girls, it is also vital to investigate the techniques through which violent practices are maintained despite the changing nature of Nigerian society. Using a critical legal studies approach, I argue that any solution to violence against girls must focus as much on institutional change as it does on social transformation. Exploring violence against girls from this perspective opens up an “institutional complex”, revealing a legal and political system that serves as a tool used by the government and the political elite for consolidating power and legitimising discriminatory principles as traditional values
L1 English Perception of /x/ and /xʷ/ in Kwak\u27wala and hul\u27q\u27umi\u27num\u27
No full textWith 34 unique languages and 90 different dialects, British Columbia is one of the most linguistically diverse places on earth. With so much diversity in such concentration, there is limited work on languages spoken in near geographical locations. This study investigates the differences between two languages found on Vancouver Island; Kwak\u27wala and hul\u27q\u27umi\u27num\u27. Listeners’ perception of Kwak\u27wala and hul\u27q\u27umi\u27num\u27 plain and labialized /x/ and /xʷ/ was investigated to determine whether English speakers are able to differentiate between the two sounds, as well as determine whether there is a difference between perception across the two languages. Results indicate that /x/ was more accurately perceived both languages. According to word position, in Kwak’wala plain and labialized segments were more accurately perceived in word-initial position, in hul’q’umi’num’ plain and labialized segments were more accurately perceived in word-final position. Analyses between the two languages found that participants perceived Kwak’wala more accurately than hul’q’umi’num’. A practice effect was found across listening quiz trials, where participants more accurately perceive plain and labialized segments on the second trial. These results suggest there may be differences in production between the two languages that affect the perception of English speakers, such as duration and environmental context of the segment.
Key words: labialization; word positioning; perception; velar fricatives; Indigenous language
Samish Reflexives
No full textLittle research has been done regarding the status of Samish reflexives and their relationship to other Salish reflexives. This paper will argue that Samish reflexives behave and pattern similarly to closely related Salish languages. Two surfacing types of reflexives (‘plain’ and limited control) will be established as will two available situations for each type to occur (‘core’ and grammaticalized, with a possible inchoative reading). It will also be argued that Samish reflexives, like related Salish language reflexives, are derived from a transitive marker. McGinnis (2022) and Legate (2014) are referenced as a possible syntactic representation of Samish reflexives in which reflexive suffixes (called anaphoric clitics by McGinnis) morphologically realize onto a Voice head or into the Spec position of VoiceP.
Keywords: Samish; Northern Straits Salish; Reflexives; Limited Control; Transitivit
Architecture of Justice: Sightlines of the Johnsonian Isocolon and the Walpolean Hypallage
No full textBlack Historiography Versus the “Nostalgia Mode”: Exploring the Limits of Fredric Jameson’s Postmodern Critique Through Toni Morrison’s Beloved
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“Somethings About Me”: Slanted Conventions in Children’s Letters to Beloved Authors
No full textThis article is a study of letters written by American children to authors of juvenile fiction. It emphasizes the rhetorical and material choices children made in bridging the distance between themselves as writers and the authors who were to receive the letters. Focused on notions of convention, the study uses the theoretical concept of the slant to analyze the way the child writers conformed to conventions of writing and communication while also rendering those expectations askew. Ultimately, the stylistic techniques and content choices reveal methods children used to cocreate a world with the authors to whom they wrote