Search Results - "Augustine Agwuele"

The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland by Agwuele, Augustine

“…This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba people's affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a 'deviant' hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles…”
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Some Popular and Quotable Ethiopian Emblems in Their Communicative Situations by Augustine Agwuele

“…This ethnographic paper explores the role of emblematic gestures in urban Ethiopian communication, offering an in-depth analysis of hand, head, and facial…”
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Greyness Is Aged, Bearded Is Adult by Augustine Agwuele

“…I explore how Yoruba people ascertain who is junior, who is senior, and the mark of equality beyond obvious age, as well as the social function of these…”
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Greyness Is Aged, Bearded Is Adult: Yoruba Age and Seniority by Agwuele, Augustine

“…I explore how Yoruba people ascertain who is junior, who is senior, and the mark of equality beyond obvious age, as well as the social function of these…”
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‘Exertion is not connected to success’: everyday Yoruba discourse of work and success by Agwuele, Augustine

“…Work hard, work smart, make the right connections, get the right education, invest wisely – yet after doing all the supposedly right things, success remains…”
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Culture Trumps Scientific Fact: ‘Race’ in US American Language by Agwuele, Augustine

“…Once described as humankind’s most dangerous myth, ‘race’ remains a most contentious concept: it is defined one way but used in another. This article examines…”
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Indexicality of won: Yoruba language and culture by Agwuele, Augustine

“…The Yoruba pronoun won is equivalent to the English pronoun they, and can occur in various syntactical constructions including passives. Indefinite pronouns of…”
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Indexicality of wọ́n: Yoruba language and culture by Agwuele, Augustine

“…The Yoruba pronoun wọ́n is equivalent to the English pronoun they, and can occur in various syntactical constructions including passives. Indefinite pronouns…”
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Identity Construction in Three AbaGusii Bewitchment Narratives by Ong'au-Mong'are, Eucabeth, Agwuele, Augustine

“…The stories we tell about our lives unveil their content just as much as the lexical choices we make index a certain worldview, attitude, positionality, and…”
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Ohùn: Popular Linguistic Innovation among Yoruba Youths in Urban Cities by Agwuele, Augustine

“…Just as children are credited with the creation of language (Bickerton, 1984), youth and youthfulness are the harbingers, the enervating forces of linguistic…”
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Practice of Historical Linguistics and Language Codification in Africa by Agwuele, Augustine

“…The sheer number of languages in Africa is remarkable; more than 2000 languages are believed to be alive in the continent. Today one can read a newspaper in…”
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The effect of emphatic stress on consonant vowel coarticulation by Lindblom, Björn, Agwuele, Augustine, Sussman, Harvey M, Cortes, Elisabet Eir

“…This study assessed the acoustic coarticulatory effects of phrasal accent on [V1.CV2] sequences, when separately applied to V1 or V2, surrounding the voiced…”
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Cultur Trumps Scientific Fact: 'Race' in US American Language by Agwuele, Augustine

“…Once described as humankind's most dangerous myth, 'race' remains a most contentious concept: it is defined one way but used in another. This article examines…”
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Sociolinguistics by Agwuele, Augustine

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Chomsky, Noam by Agwuele, Augustine

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The effect of speaking rate on consonant vowel coarticulation by Agwuele, Augustine, Sussman, Harvey M, Lindblom, Bjorn

“…In 2007 Lindblom et al. introduced a methodological tool to disentangle consonant-vowel (CV) coarticulation attributable to emphatic stress apart from the…”
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Trivial Behaviors as Valuable Data by Agwuele, Augustine

“…I cannot now visualize myself without my dreadlocks. My hairstyle has become a significant defining feature of me, earning me in some quarters the name Rasta…”
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The Underpinning of the Yoruba View of Hairstyle by Agwuele, Augustine

“…It is important to reiterate that the discussion of this book is mainly centered on the everyday lives of the Yoruba people. It is concerned with the way in…”
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Dynamics of Culture and Visual Profiling by Agwuele, Augustine

“…According to Goodenough, “It is the forms of things that people have in mind, their models for perceiving, relating and otherwise interpreting them.” This work…”
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Diachronic Study of Yoruba Hairstyles by Agwuele, Augustine

“…To recapitulate, the method that I have adopted to analyze what I have been calling trivial data, in the visual perception of a person with either dreadlocks…”
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