The indigenization of English in North America

Reflections by Robert Phillipson on English in Post-Revolutionary Iran. From Indigenization to Internationalization, M. Borjian (2013) Multilingual Matters, ISBN 978-1847699091

The Need to Update Respiratory Disease Surveillance System and Indigenization of the Pneumonia of Unknown Cause Surveillance System in Iran according to the COVID-19 Pandemic

      The Need to Update Respiratory Disease Surveillance System and Indigenization of the Pneumonia of Unknown Cause Surveillance System in Iran according to the COVID-19 Pandemic   Seyed Hasan Adeli1,  Mohammad Aghaali2   1 Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Department of ...

The Role of the Church in Making a Neighboring Enemy a Loyal Citizen—An Example of Pseudo-Indigenization of Fellow Lutherans

The term indigenization is complex and multi-dimensional, immediately invokes a battery of questions concerning content and meaning. The same goes for pseudo-indigenization. In this paper, a process of pseudo-indigenization is at the center, and the definition used for this latter term is: ―when outsiders try to force the infusion of their culture into another culture.‖ 1 Naturally, this broad ...

Vowel perception by listeners from different English dialects

Native English listeners from North America rely primarily on changes in formants, not vowel duration, when perceiving the vowel contrast in the minimal pair bit and beat manipulated from a Canadian English sample [5]. In this paper, we evaluated which cue do native English listeners from other regions use when perceiving the same North American vowel contrast. For this purpose, we used the sam...

Paleontology, paleogeography and Paleoenvironment of the Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of Plummer in the Tethys; a review

Forty two Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of the Midway Formation in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, USA were firstly investigated by Plummer (1927), and its paleogeographic distribution in some other countries in the Tethyan province were recorded: North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Argentina), Europe (North Sea Basin, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria), North Af...