The main trends in the development of English-language poetry Kenya at turn XX—XXI centuries are considered. material is a collection poems by Kenyan poets, first published early 2000s. Particular attention paid to ideological and artistic transformation work young generation poets key directions poetry, which developed half XX century. novelty research lies conclusion about continuity experien...

najib kilani is the first writer dealing with muslim problems in his stories beyond the boundaries of the arab world; in his avant-garde novels, such as turkestan nights, jakarta's virgin, and giants of the north, which take place in turkestan, indonesia, and nigeria respectively, he deals with these problems. in these novels, he has depicted the contemporary muslim nations' struggle ...

names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. this paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. using a variety of personal names from ayi kwei armah’s fragments, buchi emecheta’s the joys of motherhood, and nawal el sadaaw...

The meaning of person names is determined by their associated information. This study used event related potentials to investigate the time course of integrating the newly constructed meaning of person names into discourse context. The meaning of person names was built by two-sentence descriptions of the names. Then we manipulated the congruence of person names relative to discourse context in ...

BACKGROUND Widely used models for teaching and assessing communication skills highlight the importance of greeting patients appropriately, but there is little evidence regarding what constitutes an appropriate greeting. METHODS To obtain data on patient expectations for greetings, we asked closed-ended questions about preferences for shaking hands, use of patient names, and use of physician n...

Negative brand names are surprisingly common in the marketplace (e.g., Poison perfume; Hell pizza, and Monster energy drink), yet their effects on consumer behavior are currently unknown. Three studies investigated the effects of negative brand name valence on brand name memory and liking of a branded product. Study 1 demonstrates that relative to non-negative brand names, negative brand names ...

Identifier names are the principal means of recording and communicating ideas in source code and are a significant source of information for software developers and maintainers, and the tools that support their work. This research aims to increase understanding of identifier name content types — words, abbreviations, etc. — and phrasal structures — noun phrases, verb phrases, etc. — by improvin...

Author index Authors’ names will normally be arranged alphabetically under their family name and this is commonly their last name. Prefixes (van, de etc.) will only be taken into account in the alphabetization if they begin with a capital letter. Authors wishing their names to be alphabetized differently should indicate this below. Author names may appear more than once in this list; it is not ...