Drawing on a new digital collection of oral interviews, this essay examines the place and meaning of the state in Bengali thought. In the immediate aftermath of decolonisation, East Bengal intellectuals, without substantial pre-engagement with the colonial state, favoured forms of political action or...
Prepositions and postpositions in Ewe: empirical and theoretical considerations This article examines the grammar, use and meaning of fifteen verbs used in the Basic Locative Construction (BLC) of Likpe — a Ghana-Togo-Mountain language. The verbs fall into four semantic subclasses: (a) basic top...
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We preferred thematic analysis over content analysis as many of the words in Bengali can’t directly be converted into English with the same meaning and therefore counting the word frequencies wouldn’t reflect the true intentions/ feelings shared during the interviews by the respondents. Instead, ...
This was the step at which we have made the most changes, because removing certain details can either change the meaning of the text or leave it the same, depending on language. For example, the standard ALBERT normalizer removes the accents, while for the Bengali language, we need to keep...
Passport Tracking Statuses for US Visa Stamping, Meaning Below are the various passport tracking statuses you would see on the US Visa Scheduling website or USTravelDocs Portal website or in the email you send them for passport tracking status. You may or may not see all of these statuses as...
reserved for women in the old Teahouse, and love also blossomed and lovers got married courting here, the remark made by Delhi University teacher Chhattar Singh's, wife, is telling, “I did not like the place as I used to lose him to others”, the 'others' meaning Singh's male ...
Whether everyone knows meaning of their name and if he/she does, whether they carries that meaning all the time! Titles of works of art are like identities which do not necessarily have a great connotation as far as the meaning is considered. In fact I do not think particular meaning exist...
Take it from me—there is nothing “in the air” in another country that will magically make you able to speak their language. I’ve done a lot of experiments to prove this (e.g. learning Arabic while living in Brazil). I’ve met countless expats who lived abroad foryearswithout learni...
in Bangladesh - Tungipara at the present Gopalganj district. Born there was a baby boy, affectionately called ‘Khoka‘ - meaning a little boy - by his parents, who half a century later removed all the darkness and odds; changed the history of the Bengali nation and the world; created an...