These novelists proceed like street-planners of old in South London: they can never name a street Ruskin Street without linking a whole block, and filling it with Carlyle Street, and Turner Street, and Morris Street, and so on. Near the end ofWhite Teeth, one of the characters, Irie Jone...
The head of EU delegation in Dhaka, William Hanna, said that the prime concern of European Union now was human rights situation across the world and it was monitoring the developments. He said the European Union was also working in Bangladesh in cooperation with organisations such as Odhikar. H...
. . in Bengali and Sanskrit...Paulette had learned a good deal of Latin from her father, while also absorbing Indian languages" ([32], p. 118). These early experiences play a big role in shaping Paulette's social attitude along empathic lines. However, like her father, she becomes an ...
Prof. Julia Hirschberg from Columbia University, Prof. Thamar Solorio from University of Houston and Prof. Mona Diab from George Washington University. The special session was in the pre and post-lunch sessions on the first day of the conference, and we were very excited to see the room full...
“If…then” is very common in the Bengali language. Bengali is fraught with relative-correlatives. A thing of frustration for a straight talking girl like me. And yet the poetry and song of the language is because of the “if…then.” I don’t know it’s origins. I wonder if there...
Coding, which can be automated, is done in three ways: i) on factual information about the respondent – using 5 age categories, 2 gender categories, 7 socio-economic strata, their village, etc., ii) on key words (English or Bengali) in the transcript, iii) manual interpretative coding...
Bengali) “temperament,” for he has, really, only the one dimension, his angry defence of Islam. Still, every so often Smith’s prose opens out into little holidays from caricature, apertures through which we see Samad tenderly, and see his frustrations, such as the restaurant he works in...