Gender differences in language use have long been of interest in linguistics. The task of automatic gender attribution has been considered in computational linguistics as well. Most research of this type is done using (usually English) texts with authorship metadata. In this paper, we propose a new method of male/female corpus creation based on gender-specific first-person expressions. The meth...

In a series of engaging observations on colonialism and territorial conquest, Edward Said crafted the notion of “imaginative geography” to describe the ideological impulses of dominant groups seeking control of places and people.1 According to Said, imagined geography is a process initiated by groups with territorial ambitions who reinvent meanings about the landscapes they covet, and frame dis...

The paper reevaluates Wajahat Ali’s play Domestic Crusaders through the postcolonial views of Edward Said. It explores role Western media in classification and alienation Muslims according to racist misconceptions. Despite differences their respective approaches, two texts—Ali’s Said’s Covering Islam—denounce media’s distortion portrayals Islam Muslims. Accordingly, study aims at discussing tex...

Para analisar um certo percurso da obra de Said Ali, decisivo na história das ideias linguísticas no Brasil, tomo dois acontecimentos. De lado a publicação Gramática Secundária (uma gramática normativa, que ele chama prática) e Estrutura Língua Portuguesa Mattoso Câmara, em 1970. Com esta análise procuramos refletir sobre questão do purismo, lado, consideração uma norma linguística outro. Podem...

Bu makalenin amacı, Batılı ana akım Uluslararası İlişkiler teorilerine, özellikle üçüncü dünya ülkelerindeki batı egemenliğine güçlü bir şekilde meydan okuyan postkolonyal teori kavramını araştırmaktadır. Postkolonyal teorisyenler, dünyanın batılı ve olmayan bölgelere ayrıldığını mevcut düzeninin, Avrupa ülkelerinin kolonizasyon süreci yoluyla ülkeleri üzerindeki hakimiyetlerini genişletmesine ...

This paper uses Thomas King’s novel Green Grass, Running Water (1994) to examine the contact between two cultures in Canada; culture of Indigenous people and white settlers. Taking postcolonial studies as its framework, this relies on works written by critics such Stephen Slemon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, others, analysis transcultural space which King creates his no...