Browsing by Subject "language"

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Adeem Suhail Interview
(Hindi-Urdu Flagship) Hindi-Urdu Flagship
Ali Husain Mir Interview
(Hindi-Urdu Flagship) Hindi-Urdu Flagship
Autobiography is Another Story: “Lives” in Hindi
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2011-04-07) Snell, Rupert
Celebrating the Manto Centenary
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2012-04-24) Hanfi, Shamim
Congressional Attitude: Congressional Bill Sentiment in Major Policy Areas
(2021-05) Whitlock, Will
Whitlock looks at how issue ownership effects bill sentiment and the language used in the bills introduced by members of Congress. The author maps the positive and negative nature of bills introduced in Congress in three major policy areas to not only learn about major shifts in policy, but also about the roles the major political parties played in facilitating change. The study looks at bills from the topics of welfare, defense, and the environment to understand trends from a variety of policy areas. The author was able to map the changes in bill sentiment by coding a dataset of bills from 1947 to 2016 and their bill titles with a political sentiment dictionary. This data was then compared to the public opinion of the time period. The results of the research showed three major findings. First, issue ownership was not very influential on bill sentiment, but the party with a majority in Congress had a higher positive sentiment. The period known as The Great Broadening was very influential on bill sentiment. And lastly public opinion was correlated with bill sentiment in regard to national defense and the environment but was inversely correlated to welfare bill sentiment because of the influence of major social movements.
DAC Blog 2017-07
(2017-07) Diversity Action Committee (DAC)
Defining a Matrix Language in Language Mixing
(2018) Sharath, Vivek
English in the High School
(University of Texas at Austin, 1915-08-15) Law, Richard A.
Female Leadership and Power: How Language Impacts Women’s Representation
(2021-05) Walker, Samantha
Increased support for more egalitarian attitudes and greater women’s representation in public life has led to substantial increases in female attainments of suffrage, education, and leadership positions. Around the world, there has been an increasing importance and broad acceptance of promoting gender equality and advancing opportunity for women. As such, women are running and being elected to leadership positions at unprecedented rates globally. However, women still face a significant amount of progress to achieve full representation with men in leadership positions. While large strides have been made in achieving equal political representation throughout the world, there is still a significant gap in achieving gender equality. This suggests there is an additional feature that influences women’s representation, aside from structural and institutional factors, that enables the gender gap to persist. Culture is another factor contributing to lacking female representation, and this essay will primarily connect how culture constrains female power and agency. Through a full analysis of a country’s structural, institutional and cultural factors, one can get a deeper understanding of the specific barriers and mechanisms that restrict equal gender representation in a society. By exploring culture as a factor of women’s representation, this thesis will establish language as an important cultural factor influencing women’s representation.
How to Read Ghalib
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2008-03-18) Pritchett, Frances
Ideas — Hen, Skennen’kó:wa
(2018-10-30) Learn, Morgan
Increasing United States College Access for Native Arabic Speakers: Applying a Simplification Intervention and Evaluating Machine and Human Translations
(Texas Education Review, 2024) Taylor, Zachary W.; McCartt, Brett; Babekir, Tahagod
Across many language backgrounds, a consistent hurdle to accessing United States higher education is understanding the basic information necessary to apply for admission and financial aid and complete the many enrollment management processes necessary to begin one’s college career (apply for housing, receive and submit vaccinations, register for classes, etc.). However, to date, no studies have explored how this type of higher education information can be simplified and translated into Arabic, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and a linguistic background shared by tens of thousands of prospective international students (and their families) seeking higher education in the United States. This case study reports on research-to-practice work conducted with the University of Iowa, specifically how the university simplified their enrollment management information and how that information was translated into Arabic for native Arabic speakers seeking access to the University of Iowa. Findings reveal that the institution simplified text to speak more directly to prospective student audiences by using second person pronouns and simpler sentence structure and diction to engage this audience. Moreover, analyses of machine and human translations of English to Arabic suggest that human translation should be the preferred mechanism of translating higher education information, as Google Translate and Chat GPT [A1] provided adequate but not perfect translations of Iowa’s information. Implications for practice and college access are addressed.
Indo-European Verbal Flexion Was Analytical
(University of Texas at Austin, 1913-01-15) University of Texas at Austin
Josh Malihabadi: Devotion and Doubt
(Hindi Urdu Flagship, 2011-04-19) Naghmi, Abul Hasan
Language & Video Games: A Cross-Genre Approach
(2018-05) Ting, Shu Jie; Tellakat, Mohini
Online multiplayer games are often thought to promote "toxic" or negative language due to their competitive nature and need for cooperation from teammates. This study will investigate language patterns of players from different genres and aims to provide insight on how game characteristics may influence general language use in online communities.
Language and Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene
(American Association of Geographers, 2020-09-04) Adams, Paul C.
This article argues that geographers must study the power of words as integral parts of human–environment relationships, with particular attention to local meanings, to intervene more effectively in the Anthropocene. Words are important tools by which people come to understand environmental changes and develop plans to facilitate mitigation and adaptation or, alternatively, to postpone these responses. This project considers the portion of Texas underlain by the Ogallala aquifer as a system of communication, exploring stakeholder articulations through in-depth interviews. The semiotic concepts of gradients, grading, degradation, and grace are employed to facilitate consideration of how verbal articulations intersect with resource use, conservation, anthropogenic environmental change, and action within a highly conservative political context.
Language and Postsecondary Trajectories: How “Ever-English Learner” Status Shapes College Student Outcomes
(2023) Schudde, Lauren; Callahan, Rebecca; Kwon, Yujin
Although students who have ever received English learner services (ever-ELs) during K-12 comprise a significant and growing share of the population, the transient nature of K-12 EL status and services makes it difficult for researchers to follow ever-ELs throughout their educational pipeline. In this paper, we use longitudinal state administrative data with repeated measures of EL status to examine the early, intermediate, and long-term college outcomes of ever- and never-EL students who attended public colleges and universities in Texas. Our results offer new insights into the postsecondary trajectories of ever- and never-EL high-school seniors who transitioned into college.
The Language Controversy and the Minorities by Gopi Nath Shrivastava
(The Journal of Asian Studies, 1972) Bhatia, Sugan C.
Language in Religious Practice by William J. Samarin
(Language in Society, 1980) Bauman, Richard
Language Matters in Mental Health
(2022) Hogg Foundation for Mental Health