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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959129203321

Autore

Esimaje Alexandra

Titolo

Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9789027262936

9027262934

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Studies in corpus linguistics, , 1388-0373 ; ; volume 88

Disciplina

427.96

Soggetti

English language - Variation - Africa

English language - Africa

Languages in contact

Corpora (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface / Doug Biber -- Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia -- 1.1. What is corpus linguistics? / Alexandra U. Esimaje and Susan Hunston -- 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction / Robert Fuchs, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut -- 1.3. The purpose, design and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell) / Alexandra U. Esimaje -- 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses / Helene Steigertahl -- 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities / Thorsten Brato -- 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English / Gabriel Ozón, Sarah FitzGerald and Melanie Green -- 1.7. Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon English / Daniel Nkemleke -- 2.1. Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes / Bertus van



Rooy -- 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes / Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah -- 2.3. Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morphosyntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON) / Alexander Kautzsch -- 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis / Thorsten Brato -- 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements / Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord -- 3.1. A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners / Adeyemi Iyabo -- 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions / Josef Schmied -- 3.3. Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party / Bassey E. Antia and Tamsyn Hendricks -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new corpus initiatives both within and outside Africa that aim to compile various corpora of African Englishes. Moreover, it contains cutting-edge corpus-based research on African Englishes and the use of corpora in pedagogic contexts within African institutions. This volume thus serves both as a practical introduction to corpus compilation (Part I of the book), corpus-based research (Part II) and the application of corpora in language teaching (Part III), and is intended both for those researchers not yet familiar with corpus linguistics and as a reference work for all international researchers investigating the linguistic properties of African Englishes.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954716503321

Titolo

Reframing women's health : multidisciplinary research and practice / / edited by Alice J. Dan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, [Calif.], : Sage Publications, c1994

ISBN

1-4833-2709-4

1-4522-5520-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 410 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

DanAlice J

Disciplina

362.1/98

Soggetti

Women - Health and hygiene - Research

Women - Health and hygiene - Sociological aspects

Women's health services - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Part I - Perspectives and Models; Chapter 1 - Women's Health Scholarship: From Critique to Assertion; Chapter 2 - Why a Curriculum on Women's Health?; Chapter 3 - Women's Health and Curriculum Transformation: The Role of Medical Specialization; Chapter 4 - Women's Health and Family Medicine: A Canadian Perspective; Chapter 5 - From Female Disease to Women's Health: New Educational Paradigms; Chapter 6 - Feminist Theory and Health Psychology: Tools for an Egalitarian, Woman-Centered Approach to Women's Health

Chapter 7 - Self-in-Relation Theory: Implications for Women's HealthChapter 8 - Women's Health: New Models of Care and a New Academic Discipline; Part II - Social and Political Issues; Chapter 9 - Building a New Specialization on Women's Health: An International Perspective; Chapter 10 - Community-Based Research: The Case for Focus Groups; Chapter 11 - Women and National Health Care Reform: A Progressive Feminist Agenda; Chapter 12 - Institutionalizing Women's Oppression: The Inherent Risk in Health Policy Fostering Community Participation

Chapter 13 - My Mexican Friend Marta, Who Lost Her Womb on This Side of the BorderPart III - Reproductive Health and Sexuality; Chapter 14 - Contraception and Abortion: Challenges Now and for the Next



Century; Chapter 15 - Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health; Chapter 16 - Problems and Prospects of Contemporary Abortion Provision; Chapter 17 - Women and HIV; Part IV - Violence, Abuse, and Women's Health; Chapter 18 - The Negative Impact of Crime Victimization on Women's Health and Medical Use; Chapter 19 - Domestic Violence: Challenges to Medical Practice

Chapter 20 - Gender Entrapment: An Exploratory StudyChapter 21 - Gender-Based Abuse: The Global Epidemic; Part V - Research in Women's Health; Chapter 22 - Gender Bias in Clinical Research: The Difference It makes; Chapter 23 - Real and Perceived Legal Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials; Chapter 24 - Health Policy and Breast Cancer Screening: The Politics of Research and Intervention; Chapter 25 - Toward a Feminist Methodology in Research on Battered Women; Part VI - Practice Issues; Chapter 26 - Is Care a Remedy? The Case of Nurse Practitioners

Chapter 27 - Reframing Women's Weight: Does Thin Equal Healthy?Chapter 28 - Lesbian Health Issues: An Overview; Chapter 29 - Health Services for Women with Disabilities: Barriers and Portals; Chapter 30 - Factors Related to Secondary Prevention Behaviors for Breast Cancer; Chapter 31 - Tension and Paradox in Framing Interstitial Cystitis; Epilogue: An Invitation; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book presents an insightful exploration of the theoretical and practical advances in  women's health care. The opening part examines the various shapes that a new framework in women's health might take. Such issues as using the male experience as the norm, reducing women to merely reproductive entities, and promoting the notion of biological primacy are addressed. In the second part, contributors carry the argument for reframing women's health into the sociopolitical arena, looking at women in the Third World and at integrating women's health into heal