I found just the place for me...even though one doesn’t accomplish great things. But we know what we want. We chose this...We aren’t going to give in to power, staying home. It’s good for us to be out in the street, doing something, awakening the recognition of folks. It’s tied to the solidarity of others with you... It comes from my father and sharing a plate of food, and the neighbours...You ...

Family composition and relationships may undergo significant changes upon immigration and settlement. This article approaches teen-parent relationships through the intergenerational solidarity framework, which addresses three areas of conflict and/or consensus related to (a) functional solidarity, (b) consensual solidarity, and (3) normative solidarity. Interviews took place in the Sri Lankan T...

Humor can serve numerous functions in discourse. This paper provides a tool for categorizing functions of humor, and uses this tool to highlight statistically some interesting patterns in the humor of New Zealand men and women. The humor occurring in 18 New Zealand friendship groups was analyzed according to function and these functions were organized into a taxonomy. Functions of humor occurri...

Abstract This article investigates the activities of Kurdish women aimed at protecting and revitalising language, which include collecting publishing folklore, translating into Kurdish, writing literature in Kurdish. Throughout 20th century, countries like Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, varying degrees, imposed restrictions on use Our primary focus is Turkey because this country has been most repre...

This article traces the way autonomy has become a recognised value in health care in France. In a country that based its social fundamentals on the very idea of solidarity for many years, autonomy has long been considered a foreign 'Anglo-American principle'. Taking the example of the end-of-life debate, the article shows, however, how the use of the French term 'accompagnement' allowed autonom...

Solidarity websites, such as The Hunger Site, where people can donate food at no financial cost and minimal effort, have become immensely popular and effective since 1999. These new forms of philanthropy are characterized by wide participation and direct assistance and feedback. The present longitudinal, quasi-experimental study aimed to examine whether online solidarity can be predicted by off...

Terminology is the science that investigates relationship between scientific concepts and linguistic expressions. The title of this paper (Translating legal terms in to Kurdish: Problem Solution). This work points out translating into Kurdish has an important nationalistic patriotic significance. Additionally, it a crucial role for strengthening status government, social relationships, policy, ...


 This chapter provides a description of noun phrases in the Ardalāni variety Sorani Kurdish. In Kurdish, surface word order within Noun Phrase is head initial and post-nominal modifiers are linked to phrase by linking element called Ezafe (Windfuhr 1989). We show that realization phonologically conditioned Ardalāni, unlike other varieties However, crucially, we definite contexts, obligato...

this paper is concerned with the representation of women in kurdish proverbs based on social interpretive approach and through emic orientation. considering the constitutive function of common sense to produce social knowledge, the paper aims to explore the situation given to women in kurdish proverbs as a part of oral literature. in this respect, the women-related proverbs have been purposivel...