In fact, Kachru (2020:454) listed the following as the functional domains of English in its status as the world's lingua franca: the language is used as an access code, for advertising, corporate trade, develop
The Practical Renaissance: Information Culture and the Quest for Knowledge in Early Modern Englandby Donna A. Seger, London, Bloomsbury 2022, 231 pp., ￡63.46 (hardback), ISBN 9781350200203, ￡23.38 (paperback), ISBN 9781350200241Emily Hansen...
Emotional benefits relate to an increased sense of place and to the improvement of social connections. A recent survey of the European Commission (2017, p. 4) found that more than 70% of Europeans believe in cultural heritage having the potential to improve their quality of life. Similarly, ...
Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook, which can be summarized briefly as follows: that there exists an external world, whose properties are independent of any individual human being and indeed of humanity as a whole; that these properties are encoded in ``eternal'' physical ...
I do not believe there were two of them, and I think there were more of them. The people of Uzbekistan have experienced several such eras, periods of development. The Renaissance in the minds of peop…
In AiD, rampant chronic inflammation is a keystone feature [17]. Elevated levels of cytokines and their dysfunctional regulation involving interleukin(IL)-6, IL-1β, IL-17, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF)-α, IL-12, interferon(IFN)-γ and others are a shared feature observed in many AiDs...
A shared “information and learning commons” also will be a key feature supporting bottom-up governance processes. The internet has resulted in an entirely new global economy based on many-to-many interactions and vast data flows, fueling the rapid expansion of an information and knowledge commons...
During the planning stage we clarified key constructs and calibrated the overarching goal of the review. Following a careful assessment of previous research, we defined civil society in a way that integrates elements commonly used in prior conceptualizations. First, civil society is a sector separate...
Visual culture has played an increasing role in the development of Western civilization, becoming central in the elaboration of Modernity, as Foucault (1975) pointed out in his articulation of Panopticism; it has replaced logocentrism, turning into a distinctive feature of Postmodernism, to the ...
…in which journalistRobert Wohlforthcontributed a profile on poet and writerJames Weldon Johnson(1871–1938), a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance most widely known today for the lyrics of the Negro National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” A brief excerpt with illustration byHugo Gelle...