The purpose of the rule law, entrenched as supreme in section 1(c) South African Constitution, is to guard against tyranny. If law conceptualised a meta-legal doctrine that meant permeate all promotion certainty, predictability and accessibility, interests safeguarding constitutional rights, this makes sense. Yet, COVID-19 pandemic has seen reach state power expand at expense these rights. Afri...

This study aims to determine the language choice of intermarriage families Indonesian women and Japanese men in Japan, factors that choice, implications choice. The informants this are 8 wives who married living Japan. analysis results show primary used at home is have a dominant role determining family. informants’ mother tongue was deficient only certain situations, namely when angry joking. ...

This politeness study aimed to investigate the different strategies or face-saving acts of teachers as they engaged in casual conversations. utilized discourse analysis research method identifying face-savings exhibited from samples The researcher analysed linguistic corpora using Brown and Levinsons Politeness Theory. Data showed that interactants observed use positive such as: By intensifying...

Abstract Firefighters are reluctant to talk about firefighters’ humor with outsiders. This closed attitude has led a lack of understanding this important coping strategy in the outside world. It is not clear how firefighters experience and its role as part fire service culture why they consider be when critical incidents. Data been collected by means 20 participant observations 72 interviews Du...

This research was designed to assess the effects of contemporary political humor on information processing and persuasion, focusing specifically on two competing processes: processing motivation/counterargument distraction and message discounting. In Study 1, 212 undergraduates read one of four monologues by political comedian Bill Maher. Correlations and path modeling suggested that, in genera...

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Applied linguists have increasingly focused on how the lives of English language teachers and learners are shaped by race its intersections with other marginalized identities (e.g. Von Esch et al, 2020). Curiously overlooked, however, experiences one particularly stigmatized group in English-majority countries: Muslim women veiled niqab or hijab. In a global climate wary displays identity, such...

Until comparatively recent times, travel writing has not been a genre renowned for its humorous qualities. Yet nothing demonstrates the cultural and historical relativity of humour as clearly evolution from early nineteenth century onwards. With focus on three narratives failed quests, this essay traces broad developmental arc in over two hundred years. The narrative John Ross’s Arctic expediti...