a literary anthroponomastics of three selected african novels: a cross cultural perspective

A Literary Anthroponomastics of Three Selected African Novels: A Cross Cultural Perspective

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, a...

A Cross-Cultural Perspective

CULTURAL ISSUES were included, although in a limited fashion, in the diagnostic manuals ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1992) and DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). As Fabrega (1995) points out, the study of the cultural sciences as they pertain to psychiatry offers a necessary corrective to the increasing impersonality and reductionism that has come to characterize the neurobi...

Death: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

a corpus-hased study of units of translation in english-persian literary translation

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A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Friendship Research

Friendship: Development in a Historical Perspective Friendship is a relationship that has existed across historical times in all types of societies. In developmental psychology, Piaget’s classical distinction between voluntary and symmetrical peerand friendship relationships and the asymmetrical and—due to its biological nature—compulsory parent–child relationship is still valid. However, given...

NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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