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With the gradual obsolescence of the lip-synched romantic duet, the sonic texture of Bengali popular cinema has transformed radically in the new millennium. One of the most remarkable components of the rise of the Original Soundtrack in Bengali film specifically has been the incorporation of local pop, folk, and rock bands, whose lyrics are written in Bengali but whose music retains a decidedly western flavour. This paper situates this relationship between cinema and what has traditionally been understood as ‘band’ music in Kolkata in a longer history of the city and its colonial and postcolonial musical cultures. With the incorporation of the pop/rock stars into the diegesis, the productive tensions between star and singer, visible and invisible bodies and voices have been overturned in recent years. Conversely, the music that is commissioned by these films now contribute to the bands’ larger discography and bring their music to a wider listening audience. In some of these films, musicians and bands appear as themselves, bringing together multi-modal sites of fandom and entertainment. Finally, this essay demonstrates that singer/songwriter/filmmaker/actor, Anjan Dutta’s oeuvre emerges as the canvas on which many of these developments come to be visible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The protean concept of the Global South, now gaining traction in both academic and political imaginaries, is inflected by multiple significations. Key among those significations is the insight that the Global South is a radical epistemological reorientation, a multilocal context or location to speak from or look at and into the world. Subsequently, this essay mobilizes the concept of the Global South in order to look at the world from the standpoint of vernacular literary cultures produced by Muslims in the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Drawing on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's idea of the "globalectical imagination," I argue that vernacular literary cultures from the Global South allow us to imagine and think about the world in refreshing and powerful ways that usually get muted or short-changed within the paradigms set by the Euro-American normativity. Focusing, by way of illustration, on the greatly underexplored multilingual Tamil and Arabi Malayalam literary texts venerating the Prophet Muhammad, my essay will shed light on how the vernacular presents us with a "glocal" perspective: even as the vernacular culture grounds itself firmly in the local, it invariably transcends the local specificities in order to forge translocal, transregional, transnational and global connections and affiliations. The essay thus ventures a "vernacular globalectics" in the Global South with which to see the world and its various literatures contextually and relationally rather than unilocally and exclusively as is often the case in the regnant models for literary study in our times, including the meta-category of "world literature." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research develops a new framework through which to understand vernacular de-commemoration, as one aspect of bottom-up reckoning with the past through material commemoration. The productivity of breaking with the past distances us away from monumentality and toward action. Vernacular de-commemoration is part of a broad bottom-up process that goes beyond the mere withdrawal of uncomfortable reminders of the past from the public space, or even the recontextualization of public markers. Analyzing and comparing two case studies in the United States, and the United Kingdom, this research examines how vernacular de-commemoration is performed. In some instances, following the destruction of the now-contested memory site, new and alternative sites are installed (i.e. "re-memorialization"); other times, there may be a considerable delay, and sometimes nothing new is installed. Seen in this way, re-memorialization is always preceded by de-commemoration, and, in turn, de-commemoration is not always the final word in the constant negotiation about the meaning of the past in the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A traditional house is a symbol that represents a certain environmental area with their culture. However, there is a number of urban configuration in DI Yogyakarta that reflects the influence of Dutch colonization (1816-1941). This is characterized by a collection of contrasts and overlays of different forms of architecture and urbanism. This legacy of colonial architecture and urban planning has ignited different perspectives on the sustainable development of rural areas and the diversification of the rural economy. The purpose of this study was to examine and identify the Limasan house of DI Yogyakarta with a pyramid-shaped roof as its hallmark. Therefore, using a qualitative research method, that of grounded theory, the different influences of colonial architecture for sustainable design development in line with research objectives were investigated. The results showed the identification of factors that influence the well-being of buildings’ residents and the interaction of the external and internal environment of buildings. This current study contributes to shedding light on the meaning and representation of Yogyakarta’s Limasan house design with a scientific approach

This study describes the patterns of dialect use among L3 Norwegian speakers born in Poland who have migrated to Norway. We collected the data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews recorded in Tromsø and Oslo, two different dialect regions, in order to examine potential differences in acquisition of two dissimilar dialects in Norwegian by L3 speakers. The analyses focus on dialectal and accentual variation in their speech, and whether frequency of dialect use is dependent on selected sociocultural factors. We have found that some speakers, especially those scoring high for overall dialect use, also display style-shifting, i.e. they use dialect features from the region more frequently in unscripted speech as opposed to in more formal speech styles elicited through reading tasks or the wordlist reading tasks. This demonstrates that language learners are capable of developing sensitivity towards the vernacular form in an L3. Moreover, it shows that first-generation migrant communities in fact may be capable of developing their L2/L3/L4 language competencies in a similar way to L1 speakers, including at the level of sociolinguistic variation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we engage with recent calls to research parliaments as gendered workplaces, which build on earlier international discursive turn and institutional reform initiatives towards gender-sensitive parliaments. Our engagement explores this workplace framing and how well it translates across pluralised, global parliamentary paradigms. We develop our arguments with a special focus on the Indian parliament as a gendered institution. Viewing the parliament as a gendered workplace through an intersectional lens, we show how gender dynamics and institutional configurations of power are embedded in class, race, and caste inequalities but can shift over time through reflexive challenges. We organise our discussion through two approaches to studying parliaments as workplaces--vernacular and professional--to argue that paying attention to these approaches critically can contribute to sensitising the workplace debate to a more capacious, theoretically nuanced reading of parliaments as more gender-sensitive, gender-inclusive, and gender-responsive representative institutions. In outlining the case for paying attention to the vernacular critically, we ask whether such an understanding can help to effectively bridge local and global understandings of parliaments as workplaces and institutionalise them. In studying professionalisation, we examine the paradox that professionalisation could lead to the depoliticisation of parliaments, which might affect the nature of gender-sensitivity that is being institutionalised. This analysis thus brings together institutional, postcolonial, and intersectional strands of work to think anew about gender-equal political practices in representative bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language is the main instrument in the political communications in elections around the world. It has become equally important in the last Indonesian presidential candidate debate. The linguistic aspects of the construction of debates that discuss various themes regarding existential problems in the Indonesian republic has far-reaching consequences. In them, the numerous ethnic groups in Indonesia must be accommodated as much as possible in order to guarantee a sense of national unity. In the contemporary Indonesian political discourse, the sense of national unity is torn apart as a result of Papua being still turbulent with some people trying to separate themselves. In this context, the employment of regional languages in the presidential debate contributes to manifest the politics of language into a reflection of the presidential candidates' ability in recognizing the languages of all the vernacular ethnic groups. This research examines the use of vernacular languages in the presidential debates in Indonesia. The research employs descriptive qualitative research methods. Data source is the recorded text of the 2024 presidential candidate debates obtained from the TV broadcasts. Data collection involved 'listening' and note-taking as the techniques. The data analysis technique employed Norman Fairclough's critical discourse theory. The analysis examined the text as a construction of social identity, social relations, and meaning. The results show that in this debate, there has been a strong emphasis on the recognition of social identity of the people of Indonesia. The three regional languages used by the presidential candidate Anies Baswedan in the debate reflect these identities of different ethnic groups: Java, Sunda and Maluku. what Anies highlighted was his efforts to bring about interactions among the ethnic groups. He argued that they must interact with each other to produce Indonesia as a unified nation. Anies has employed the languages to articulate philosophical meanings related to the struggle, nobility, consistency, honesty, wisdom and femininity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable (1935) uses vernacular sounds, aurality, and bilingual translation to deal with themes of colonial modernity, casteism, and nationalism. Demonstrating the power of literary language (Indian-English or "pigeon-English" in Anand's formulation) the novel evokes a sonorous world of colonial modernity with the sounds of local dialects transcribed in the Anglophonic register. Further, Anand's radical ideological aims in his writing, ranging from critiquing caste-based discrimination, to portraying an embodiment of untouchability and masculinity are closely tied to the politics of listening within the text's diegesis. Connected as the novel's formal style is with the influence of James Joyce, it traces the shift in the sensory regime informed by the predominance of the caste system in colonial Hindu society, one that is dictated by an overbearing dependence on hearing over sight and touch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our study we focus on expressions of possessive relations in Balkan Slavic texts from the 15th–19th centuries. These show, at first sight, a great variety, but it is not clear, which forms were still productive in the vernacular at the time. Besides the archaisms, emerging due to the influence of text tradition and norms of the written language, we also study the semantics of elements of the possessive relation (possessor and its object) as possible factors in the choice of particular variant of expression. The results also show individual preferences of particular writers. Old inflectional endings were used in nearly all of the text sources, especially while marking possessors based on nouns placed high on the animacy scale. Constructions using the preposition na, preferred today, became the preferred choice for all possessive relations in sources from East Bulgaria as late as in 19th century [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The common language behind vernacular architecture only seems to be maintained in societies that preserve a traditional way of life. Changes in these societies can threaten their cultural heritage, while research may be a tool for its conservation and enhancement. In this paper, the habitat of a Mossi community is therefore studied as a first stage in analysing the possibilities of its maintenance. Design/methodology/approach: After a previous study, data collection from a stay in Baasneere (Burkina Faso) and the analysis of 32 traditional residential units were completed. The research showed some common features which, when compared against the bibliography reviewed, could be defined as characteristic of the traditional architecture of this culture. Findings: The home for a family unit consisted in an enclosure formed by the grouping of adobe constructions around a courtyard. As the family grew so did the compound, in a relationship directly linking the scales of architecture and the levels of kinship. The main daily activities took place in the courtyards while the individual interior spaces were understood as private shelters. Other typologies such as granaries, kitchens, warehouses and sheds were also analysed. Originality/value: Some features of Mossi architecture already described in the existing bibliography were verified in the Baasneere case studies, showing that this tradition is still preserved. With a multidisciplinary approach, the house was examined not so much from the perspective of construction, but of its cultural configuration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on the traditional heritage buildings in northern Jordan in the village of Samad, and Alula in Saudia Arabia, the study investigates the traditional heritage buildings management, restoration, intervention, reuse, and revitalization of these buildings to serve as a model for the neighboring villages. The preservation of traditional architecture is an important for adaptive reuse. The process is complex due to its intrinsic characteristics, charter and custom that are associated with its setting. In the study, the authors are contemplated different examples in which they tried to present a decisive conservation plan to restore the traditional buildings respecting their integrity relying on the adaptive reuse strategy with the scope of a holistic approach to safeguard the significance of the building's material and intangible properties. It addresses the unique values of each individual building, its context, the conservation of its material properties, its historical, and its aesthetic values. This work aims to take this conservation issue into the future to manage the maintenance of vernacular buildings in Samad. This is a dialectical process between pre-existence and the critical attitude taken to give these heritage buildings a new and much needed for re-functioned adaptive reuse. In other words, the positive variation lies in the different perspectives on the building materials and their implications. As for the restoration/intervention dilemma, the study analyzes the different adverse action methods within international charters and conventions. Finally, the title refers to the Samad case study, i.e. the analysis of a building that is a focal point for the rehabilitation of abandoned houses and this work takes one house as a representative of all the houses in the village. The house is located in the historic center of the village, which will be the main landmark and will give others a great opportunity to start restoring their own houses. The authors during their frequent surveys have a great chance to discover the studied house and explore it during their reconnaissance visits to compare it to the villages in northern Saudia, Alula as example. This comparision area will be the first start in northern Saudia, where Alula village is located. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Continuing a dialogue with Ülo Valk on the value of the etic term vernacular in folk-loristic scholarship, this essay responds to his claim that despite the stigma of the word's past usage and its rejection by other fields it holds promise for folkloristics because of its conceptual flexibility, which he finds is especially conducive to the study of belief and religious practices. Pointing out that flexibility – or "fuzziness" to quote other critics – suggests imprecision, residualism, hierarchy, and lack of analytical instrumentality, this essay contends that use of vernacular reveals more about its users than the groups and practices it purports to describe. Recounting the intellectual history of the term and its adoption in folkloristic circles as well as the author's own scholarship, this essay maintains that the term has limited, if any, use in folkloristics and ethnology because of its negative assumptions and "fuzzy" logic. It can be reflexively analyzed, however, to understand scholars' perceptions of cultural phenomena and their conflicts with cognitive categories of practice and belief enacted by cultural participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The circumstance of a recent commission for work on a tourist/residential development in the area of Castro Marim in Portugal’s Algarve province led me to discover the singularity of the region known as “Sotavento”. This is the southernmost part of Portugal, with the Atlantic to the south, the Baixo Algarve to the west, and with the Algarve Calcário (also known as “Barrocal”) extending north of the Ria Formosa lagoon, sheltered by its islands, and stretching down to the town of Tavira, north to the Serra do Caldeirão, in its eastern range forming a boundary with the inner Baixo Alentejo, and east to the river Guadiana. This article arises from a study I made of the region. The regional singularities we find here are, as elsewhere, various manifestations of the way humans inhabit the landscape and build dwellings and shelters for animals as well as accommodating the activities (chiefly farming and fishing) plied here over the centuries.

This special issue explores how popular culture shapes local, regional, national, and global perceptions of Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia. Integrating literatures on popular geopolitics, vernacular and aesthetic IR, and Ukraine studies, we delve into the complexities of the knowledge-making about Ukraine that takes place at the interstices of the everyday, the aesthetic, and the international. Given the mutually implicated relationship between popular culture and world politics, the popular representations of the Ukrainian subject both mirror and shape prevailing narratives, practices, identities, and power relations. But we also inquire into how popular culture serves as a space for political resistance and activism by those existing at the margins of world politics. By centering the Ukrainian perspective in all its multiplicity, the special issue helps to challenge the Western- and Russian-centric prism through which Ukraine has been approached in IR and related disciplines.

Marin Sanudo's finances, family relationships, and choice of written vernacular are the three focal points of the present study. These hitherto only partially explored issues are addressed via a little known primary source. Sanudo's handwritten submission for the Venetian redecima tax survey initiated in May 1514 is offered here in a philological first edition, with translation and contextualisation. His tax return discloses precise information about his housing interests, retail outlets, and overall income. It adds to our knowledge of the living arrangements in Ca' Sanudo at S. Giacomo dell'Orio and suggests both tensions and collaboration within the Sanudo clan. Linguistically the document is intriguing. Cross comparison confirms that Sanudo's written vernacular is not the linguistic impasto familiar from his historical works. His prose is revealed as less hybrid here than anywhere else in his output, with spelling, phonology, morphology, and lexis leaning strongly towards Venetian, and with Tuscan traits unobtrusive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the ways a nation brand is constructed by elite and non-elite actors on social media using the case of Australia in China through the lens of security. The mixed-method analysis unveils the collaborative process in the security realm driven by digital technologies does not enable vernacular discussions to produce an alternative understanding of the national brand of the Other crafted by the pro-state actors. The narratives centering around societal security to citizens strategically served to prompt the population's interactions and nationalistic support for the state's agendas. Uncovering the contribution of digital nationalism to the mean-making of securitization in the participatory media space, this article advances the engagement between security and nation branding from a critical vantage point. It enriches the strategies of harnessing the dynamics between people, digital media, and identity politics to create a unified response from the community to a security threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article combines two neglected elements within the history of online news: public service news sites and weather reporting, and it does so by utilising web archives, which – surprisingly – do not figure very prominently in journalism history. The two elements have – in isolation and in combination – at least in Denmark, become increasingly important as the online news sections of the two public service institutions Denmark's Radio (DR) and TV2 consistently are among the most visited news sites and since reporting on the weather has gained in prominence and more recently, at least on DR TV, has become increasingly educational in its linking to issues of climate change. This article focusses on online news and conducts a historical analysis of the weather reporting on DR.dk from 2005 to 2022. The analysis seeks to balance the coding of journalistic texts with considerations of the online form of journalism, which here broadly means reading the webpage as a text. A key focus in the analysis is how meteorological data have been woven into cultural and social narratives, some of which are linked to climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Touristic and agritouristic guesthouses in Romania own authentic resources that represent elements of maximum attraction, and Satul Banului Guesthouse is representative for promoting the authentic vernacular Romanian, Muntenia style in the touristic offer. The study aims to identify the rough guide criteria by which tourists select guesthouses and how much it is appreciated, according to multiple socio-demographic categories, the local national authenticity through services and other opportunities. The data were collected through an original questionnaire which includes 33 subjects, customers of Satul Banului Guesthouse, with the following demographic structure: 51.5% men and 48.5% women, ages between 31-50 years are predominant, and 66.7% of the respondents have university degrees. The results indicated that: the proximity to the home is not a significant indicator; tourists between 31-50 years choose a good quality/price offer; especially male tourists choose a guesthouse appreciating Romanian authenticity (56.67%); participation in outdoor activities is strongly segregated, and cultural tours is especially important for women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Vernacular buildings use indigenous materials and construction techniques that are region-specific to enhance natural ventilation, daylight progress, and thermal comfort inside the buildings. In this study, a mathematical model has been developed to predict the room/corridor temperature distribution in preferentially oriented (-45° North) vernacular spaces in southern India. The research employs a mathematical approach to study such buildings. It measures the shadow area yield, room temperature, daylight progress, and corridor temperature over time using field experiments, and the same have been validated with building simulations. Solar analysis has been carried out to assess the degree of daylight progress inside a classroom as a function of window placement and window opening size. The daylight progress inside the classroom is found to depend on the window placement and window opening size. The building simulation results indicate a differential heating phenomenon inside the vernacular spaces viz., the eastern part of the building heats up faster than its western counterpart. Furthermore, the corridor/room temperature profiles obtained from the experiments and simulations mimic a cubic function, with minor deviations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractAmid the racial uprisings of 2017 and 2020, digital projections emerged as a mode of protest contributing to the calls for removal of Confederate monuments. These digital projections, I argue, created a dialogue between the contested Confederate monuments (the past) and their contemporary surroundings (the present). By examining the digital projections that were cast upon the Albert Pike Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, I demonstrate how they employed a palimpsest to facilitate discourse concerning public memorialization practices and to re-contextualize and reclaim contested sites into spaces for community engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the rise of Chetan Bhagat, an icon of the New India "after English" who ironically writes his best-selling popular fictions in English. When Bhagat's demotic English travels outside India, it is taken up by readers and critics whose responses to his work reveal the persistence of the fantasy of accessing India's unmediated voice. The essay reads the extant Anglo-American critical discourse on Bhagat, with special attention to the postcritical and post-postcolonial turns in contemporary literary scholarship. It argues that Bhagat's anointment as a global Anglophone literary icon with purchase on the "real" India lays bare a problem endemic to English literary studies—namely, the problem of enacting comparative literary analysis within English itself. It also raises a number of questions at the intersections of world literature and the global Anglophone, which are rival strategies for the teaching of non-Western literatures in English in US academe. In its concluding sections, the essay considers whether it is possible to teach Bhagat's "English like Hindi" without allowing it to masquerade as a conduit to a supposedly authentic Indian vernacular sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the patterns of dialect use among L3 Norwegian speakers born in Poland who have migrated to Norway. We collected the data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews recorded in Tromsø and Oslo, two different dialect regions, in order to examine potential differences in acquisition of two dissimilar dialects in Norwegian by L3 speakers. The analyses focus on dialectal and accentual variation in their speech, and whether frequency of dialect use is dependent on selected sociocultural factors. We have found that some speakers, especially those scoring high for overall dialect use, also display style-shifting, i.e. they use dialect features from the region more frequently in unscripted speech as opposed to in more formal speech styles elicited through reading tasks or the wordlist reading tasks. This demonstrates that language learners are capable of developing sensitivity towards the vernacular form in an L3. Moreover, it shows that first-generation migrant communities in fact may be capable of developing their L2/L3/L4 language competencies in a similar way to L1 speakers, including at the level of sociolinguistic variation.

In this article, we engage with recent calls to research parliaments as gendered workplaces, which build on earlier international discursive turn and institutional reform initiatives towards gender-sensitive parliaments. Our engagement explores this workplace framing and how well it translates across pluralised, global parliamentary paradigms. We develop our arguments with a special focus on the Indian parliament as a gendered institution. Viewing the parliament as a gendered workplace through an intersectional lens, we show how gender dynamics and institutional configurations of power are embedded in class, race, and caste inequalities but can shift over time through reflexive challenges. We organise our discussion through two approaches to studying parliaments as workplaces—vernacular and professional—to argue that paying attention to these approaches critically can contribute to sensitising the workplace debate to a more capacious, theoretically nuanced reading of parliaments as more gender-sensitive, gender-inclusive, and gender-responsive representative institutions. In outlining the case for paying attention to the vernacular critically, we ask whether such an understanding can help to effectively bridge local and global understandings of parliaments as workplaces and institutionalise them. In studying professionalisation, we examine the paradox that professionalisation could lead to the depoliticisation of parliaments, which might affect the nature of gender-sensitivity that is being institutionalised. This analysis thus brings together institutional, postcolonial, and intersectional strands of work to think anew about gender-equal political practices in representative bodies.

This research was initiated by an interest in vernacular architecture, which adapts to fit the changing demands of its inhabitants. Cultural variations and differing population demands can cause spatial planning patterns to vary even within a province or between nearby places. Tectonic formations are produced by the growth of vernacular houses. In addition to understanding the distinctive tectonic structures through the connections of elements in the expanded spaces, this study attempts to identify and classify the spatial arrangement patterns in the vernacular houses of Tanean Lanjhang and Osing. Tanean Lanjhang and Osing buildings are examples of vernacular architecture known as "grow houses," which have horizontal expansion as their principal growth criterion. The two kinds of houses, however, expand in different directions. This research uses qualitative techniques, such as literature reviews on Osing houses and on-site observations of Tanean Lanjhang houses. The results show that the Tanean Lanjhang houses show three orientations of spatial arrangement patterns: expansion in the middle, forward, and backward areas. Osing houses, on the other hand, extend from front to back. Both types of houses have connections built with or without gutters, despite the variations in the connections between each of the elements within them.

Voice biometrics is challenging in many aspects, ranging from voice data acquisition through processing down to the matching module. Some of the challenges of an automatic voice biometric are background noises, mimicry, voice playback, and so on. This research work emphasizes identifying a person in the context of varying languages. Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC), Gammatonne Cepstral Coefficient (GTCC), the Pitch, and the iVector are feature extractor techniques that are amazing for differentiating individuals. In this research work, a new feature extractor derived from Pitch, GTCC, and MFCC is proposed. A novel AfroVoices database of 94 subjects was collected with ten (10) voiceprints of Nigerian localities: five (5) spoken in English and five (5) in vernacular, resulting in a total of 940 voiceprints. The experiment was performed on three datasets AfroVoices, UNN_BVC, and LibriSpeech voice datasets, which were done in the MATLAB environment. The experiment was performed using the traditional approach of recognizing individuals using the biometric system. Experimenting reveals that varying languages do not affect voice biometric performance. It also reveals that the presence of noise affected the performance of the system, as the clean utterances performed relatively better.

The article considers two issues: I) the content and history of the term “vernacular”, II) non-linguistic and linguistic reasons for the formation and transformation of the vernacular into a common substandard. The author believes that vernacular is a natural non-literary, everyday, generally understandable form of existence of the national language - i.e. speech, which is characterized by a significant and immanently conditioned representation of vernacular lexemes, accentology, morphological and grammatical forms, etc., which functioned in large cities, primarily Moscow and St. Petersburg (Leningrad), from about the second half of the 19th century until the 1970’s. The vernacular basically contains an interdialect. The functioning of the vernacular was associated with the growth of the urban population in large cities. This population, representing the majority of peasants from different regions of Russia, used an interdialect, or vernacular, for communication. On the periphery of this sublanguage, there were various kinds of interference from the jargons and nominations-localities of the city. The vernacular had linguistic features at all levels of the language, but above all at the lexico-semantic level. Since about the 1970’s, under the influence of education and improved means of communication, it began to transform. Today, its place is taken by interjargon, which in linguistics is called “common substandard” (Еремин 2001), “common jargon” (Ермакова et al. 1999), “vernacular-2” (Крысин 1998), etc. The vocabulary of the old vernacular has partially gone into the passive language stock, or has moved to the periphery of the new general substandard.

Thermal comfort research in Indonesia is known between 23 C and 25 C for dwelling buildings. As tropical weather is characterized by high humidity, high temperature, and intense solar insolation; therefore, traditional tropical housing is predominantly dependent on natural ventilation and passive cooling for thermal comfort. In the literature and practice, there is a gap in knowledge on traditional Banjar vernacular housing. Therefore, a thermal comfort field identification survey was conducted in the Balai Laki House one of the 11 types of traditional Banjar, which included information on the use of building space layout. The measurement results concluded that the category of thermal comfort is in the comfortably warm range, with the THI (Temperature Humidity Index) temperature range between 26,24 - 27,06 C. In addition, the upper threshold for comfortable warm conditions is indicated range of 27,29 - 31,28 C. The results revealed that the efficacy of traditional passive design techniques would not be sufficient to achieve thermal comfort in the predicted future climate scenario. For this reason, the authors suggested that the passive design techniques of Banjar vernacular housing need to be improved, with innovative solutions in order to cope with the changing climate.

The aim of the article is to examine models of speech ontogenesis in Russian monolinguals living in Russia and Russian-German bilinguals living in Germany. The study uses deviations from literary language norms in transcriptions of oral speech from 42 monolinguals and 48 bilinguals, supplemented by speech analysis data reflected in printed sources. Research methods include surveys, interviews, reading phonetically representative texts and picture stories, analysis of deviations from literary language norms, and synthesis of speech data. Two models of speech ontogenesis for monolinguals and four models for bilinguals are described. It is shown that the process of speech ontogenesis proceeds differently among Russian language speakers depending on a) whether it occurs in Russia or abroad, b) which variety of Russian language the speaker uses, c) at what age the foreign speaker of Russian language begins to actively use the language of the majority. It is established that the most important factor preventing the loss of elements of the Russian language in the diaspora is mastery of literary language norms. The dependence of the appearance of interference from the German language on the model of speech ontogenesis is determined.

Race formation, canon formation, and the writing of linguistic history can all be understood as processes of standardisation that differentiate through inclusion and exclusion of selected characteristics (of a human group, language use, or literary work) in synchronic moments and artificially link those moments to create diachronic histories that can span millennia. As we will show in this essay, Thomas Warton's The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1775–1778) enacts all three processes simultaneously in ways that are inextricably entangled, and structured by an ideology of standardisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Bhagavad Gītā is often thought of as the popular religious text par excellence in modern Hinduism. A substantial amount of scholarship has argued that its modern status as the central text of Hinduism is grounded in its 19th-century colonial and nationalist receptions. However, recent work on late premodern Indian philosophy has raised the possibility of constructing alternative genealogies for modern religious textual practices, though the methodologies that may allow the characterisation of premodern texts as 'popular' canonical works remain uncertain. This article asks how we may further interrogate the idea of the Gītā's status as a classic or canonical text by looking at the ways in which this status was historically constructed, maintained and mediated in 18th-century North India. In order to reflect on the conditions that historicise the idea of the Gītā as scholarly, public or popular text in premodern and modern India, this article engages with two different approaches to the question of the Gītā's social worlds during that period. One, it analyses histories of production and circulation, and two, it examines the genres of some Gītā adaptations. It does so by drawing from manuscripts containing translations and adaptations of the Bhagavad Gītā from Sanskrit into Hindi that were copied and composed between the 16th and 18th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the Yorùbá traditional greeting culture and what is obtainable today. The aim is to examine the perceived causes of the decline in Yorùbá greeting-culture among the younger generation today. Primary data were retrieved through in-depth interview while a total of 20 respondents selected through purposive and convenience sampling methods participated in the study. The study was explained with the cultural diffusion theory while transcripts was coded and transcribed using ATLAS.ti version 8. Findings revealed that, poor parental socialization, prohibition of Yorùbá language as a means of communication in schools, westernization, peer group influence, Internet and social media were the perceived causes of the decline among the respondents in the study. It concludes that even though the perception is that young people do not perform traditional Yorùbá greetings as often as the older generation nevertheless, they are concerned about this seeming erosion that is not as a result of personal preferences but attributed to external forces. The family and other agents of socialization are therefore encouraged to embrace the Yorùbá greeting culture and internalise same on them in order to protect and preserve this rich cultural heritage from going into extinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The stilt house is one of vernacular architecture features in Indonesia. Several stilt vernacular houses persist until 70 to 100 years old in Palu City. Stilt house forms were proved to be adaptive to tropical climates. This research provides evidence of a thermally comfortable interior created by the vernacular stilt house of Palu City. The research was carried out in two stages: field measurement and thermal comfort value analysis, based on SNI 03-6572-2001 standards. Purposive sampling was used to determine the research sample for vernacular stilt houses. The selected stilt house is located on Anoa street No 57, North Tatura Ward, Palu City. Field measurement was performed to record the indoor and outdoor thermal condition of the sample house employing Hobo Onset U12-012 RH-Light data logger and Hobo H-22 microclimate station. The results show that the outdoor air temperature peak is 36.8°C with 45% humidity. Meanwhile, the indoor peak temperature on the 1st floor reached 32°C with 51% humidity. On the 2nd floor, there are five rooms with peak temperatures ranging from 29.5°C to 34.6°C with 53% to 64% humidity, indicating that each room has a different temperature performance. This condition is due to several parameters, such as ceiling height, roof shape, opening size, room layout, and room orientation. The result also showed that the indoor air temperature tends to be lower than the outdoor air temperature. Hence, it is indicated that the design strategies of the sample building are adaptive to the tropical warm and humid conditions of Palu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the past two centuries, Nias, an island located in the Indian Ocean on the west coast of Sumatra, has been regularly rocked by earthquakes. It was recorded that devastating earthquakes occurred in 1843, 1861, and finally in 2004 and 2005. Facing this situation, the people of Nias Island have taken the initiative to respond to earthquake disasters in the form of cultural heritage to avoid and save themselves from various possible risks of earthquakes by building traditional earthquake resilience houses. This article aims to explain the existence of these traditional earthquake-resilience houses in the face of earthquake natural disasters. The method used is a combination of historical and architectural by utilizing various kinds of past data from earthquake resilience houses. The results of the research show that this earthquake-resilience house has been built for centuries and has a unique architectural model and resilience so it does not collapse easily even when shaken by a strong earthquake. Traditional houses are made of strong wood and built based on the local wisdom of the local community. Throughout its history, this house has been able to save many people living in these houses from earthquakes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports the evolution of the Letras que Flutuam project, started in 2004, which involves design-researchers and popular artists involved with painting names on boats in the Amazon region, to then address issues that arise from the designers’ praxis and its consequences. The reflection on its consequences and the impacts caused on those involved in the project, and on society, is fundamental to the discussion on the positionality of the designer, immersed in a cultural context and his responsibilities. As these are recent events, difficult to analyze with due impartiality, it relies on authors such as Paulo Freire (2011, 2013, 2017), Rafael Cardoso (2013), Ahmet Ansari (2015), Felipe Kaizer (2023) to collaborate in the problematization, and therefore, does not present paths or solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most famous passages in Galileo's Il Saggiatore is his declaration that "philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze". He opposed this book of nature with what he claimed was his opponent Orazio Grassi's understanding of philosophy -- "a book of fiction, productions in which the least important thing is whether what is written there is true". This paper seeks to situate this passage within the larger debate between Galileo and Grassi about the relationship between poetry and natural philosophy over the course of their publications regarding the comet controversy of 1618. During their back and forth, Galileo had claimed that "nature takes no delight in poetry", which Grassi had turned on him by alleging that he was too serious if he could not appreciate a poetic flourish in a learned debate such as theirs. This was a major insult given how central poetry and letters were to any early modern discourse. This paper argues that Galileo's "grand book" responded to this insult by both doubling down on his poetry-nature claim and illustrating that he was more familiar with poetry than Grassi. He accomplished both by referring to debates about epic poetry in late sixteenth-century Italy. This connection sheds new light on a passage that seemingly repudiates poetry, as well as contributing to scholarship that has sought to reevaluate the mathematician's engagement with the rich world of early modern Italian poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This special issue explores how popular culture shapes local, regional, national, and global perceptions of Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia. Integrating literatures on popular geopolitics, vernacular and aesthetic IR, and Ukraine studies, we delve into the complexities of the knowledge-making about Ukraine that takes place at the interstices of the everyday, the aesthetic, and the international. Given the mutually implicated relationship between popular culture and world politics, the popular representations of the Ukrainian subject both mirror and shape prevailing narratives, practices, identities, and power relations. But we also inquire into how popular culture serves as a space for political resistance and activism by those existing at the margins of world politics. By centering the Ukrainian perspective in all its multiplicity, the special issue helps to challenge the Western- and Russian-centric prism through which Ukraine has been approached in IR and related disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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