Abstract Socially constructed and globally propagated East-West binaries have influenced language ideologies about English in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but they are not hegemonic. This essay explores how reformed mergers with Mandarin-minority ideologies. It discusses two separate similar recent studies minority speakers PRC, respectively by Grey Baioud. Each study reveals aspects M...

Three families of social capital concepts are discussed: (fa1) trust, (fa2) ease of cooperation, and (fa3) network. In the language of game theory, social capital is the excess propensity to play cooperative solutions in prisoners’ dilemma games. The three families lead to different definitions, and thus to different measurement methods. Some measures are theory-near, while others are easy-to-u...

The goal of this paper is to establish a framework for better understanding the relationships between Japanese and American games in relation to that industry, visual styles, and cultural influence. To do that, this paper draws on a larger cultural history of Japan and America, and critiques and questions current and potential uses the concept of Orientalism in relation to digital games. In doi...

Edward Said remained a little-known scholar both in the West and Arab World until publication of his major work, Orientalism, 1978, which he argues that Western representations East have historically been distorted oversimplified these used to justify European imperialism domination. This proved turning point academic career, bringing him recognition and, somewhat later, World. The purpose this...

Paper is a kind of historical sociology religions for philosophical understanding Al- Muhyiddin Arabi's research as lasting paradigm in dialogue religions. Mediterranean place where greatest number God's prophets were sent, and voice prophecy many from Adam to Khatam can still be heard that space. AL-Muhyiddin Arabi (1240), who started classical studies religions, originated Western presented h...

The present study set out to examine the translations of Edward Said’s Orientalism in light narrative theory. paper uses critical discourse analysis different narratives produced by two Arabic Orientalism, written originally English. first translation was Kamal Abu Deeb 1980, and a later one carried Mohammad Enani 2006. Our findings demonstrate competing cultures standing opposition another, wi...

For many scholars who have studied the practice, translation is, among other things, a form of poetic transcreation. In similar way, landscape, due to its ability generate meaning, invites writer move from one cultural code another. Focusing on contemporary Mozambican literature, with special emphasis production João Paulo Borges Coelho, Luís Carlos Patraquim and Eduardo White, this article aim...