Abstract The fifth volume of the Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737) by Bernard Picart and Jean Frederic played a significant role in shaping perception Islam early 18th-century Dutch Republic Europe. Kishwar Rizvi has argued that it challenged stereotypes introducing novel comparative perspectives between Western traditions Islamic rituals. However, prev...

In Germany, and particu larly in Berlin , the fall of the Wall in 1989 and the years follow ing reuni® cation were accompanied by a large in ̄ ux of immigrants. These `new’ m igrants in Berlin are added to the long-resid ent guestworker population in the western part of the city. This paper investigat es the housing situation of the increasin g population of foreign ers before and after uni® cat...

Richard Wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children describes hidden forms of resistance against Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism. The essay entitled The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch relates Wright’s daily confrontations with Jim Crowism with a particular emphasis on his evasive actions, and his covert activities, such as silence, pla...

Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in variety ways depending on context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics swearing. Journal Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role linguistic variation perceptions swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test sociolinguistic Experiment 1 is variant ...

This essay focuses on the current state of cross-strait relations and whether issue may evolve from friction to war. In 2022, after Russia declared war Ukraine, world is again in shadow war, have been a powder keg international community. Taiwan, as country with its legislature, political party complete system, but not recognized by It has long at odds PRC, which claimed Taiwan part own. Since ...