Marginalized Selfhood of Women in Tehmina Durrani's Blasphemy

Blasphemy laws and mental illness in Pakistan

There is emerging evidence that individuals who are mentally ill are overrepresented in the group of defendants prosecuted under the blasphemy laws of Pakistan. This article discusses the background of blasphemy legislation in Pakistan, and proposes causal interactions between underlying mental illness in the defendant and prosecution for blasphemy. It sketches possible legal safeguards for suc...

Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

Running head: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF SELFHOOD The Discursive Construction of Selfhood in Chinese and Euro-American Mother- Infant Interactions

Children’s socialization environments reflect cultural models of care giving that become evident in parental beliefs and behavior. Cultural models of the self-concept have also been claimed to reveal themselves in the conversational style of the caregiver. While previous studies have focused on cross-cultural differences in the contents of infant-directed speech, the present study follows a soc...

Reflections on Selfhood and Embodiment

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FRIGHTENING CONDITION that faces the aging population in the twenty-first century, a much-feared stigmatizing label that carries with it a sentence of social death. The lay media are replete with descriptions of Alzheimer’s such as a “living death,” “unbecoming” a self, and a “drifting towards the threshold of unbeing.” Even the US federal govern...