Community-Focused Language Documentation in Support of Language Education and Revitalization for St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Polychlorinated biphenyls in serum of the Siberian Yupik people from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.

OBJECTIVES To determine serum levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Siberian Yupik adults from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, and to determine the relative contribution of atmospheric transport of PCBs and local contamination to body burdens. STUDY DESIGN Siberian Yupiks of various ages were recruited from three populations: residents of the village of Gambell, residents of the village ...

Environmental contamination of the Yupik people of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

Faroese Language Revitalization and Its Support for Nationhood

i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is with great appreciation that I thank a number of individuals for the kindness and encouragement that they bestowed upon me as I wrote the following research paper. First, I would like to thank Dr. C. Andrew Hofling, who introduced me to the field of anthropological linguistics and was instrumental in helping me write this paper. He is an excellent teacher and advisor. I ...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

‏‎interpersonal function of language in subtitling

‏‎translation as a comunicative process is always said to be associated with various aspects of meaning loss or gain. subtitling as a mode of translating, due to special discoursal and textual conditions imposed upon it, is believed to be an obvious case of this loss or gain. presenting the spoken sound track of a film in writing and synchronizing the perception of this text by the viewers with...