Browsing UMBC Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication Department by Issue Date
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Positioning of African Art in the Global Art Market: A Look at Western Attitudes and Influences in the Lives of Contemporary African Artists in the United States
(2003)The success of a contemporary African artist depends on how well the artist does in the global art market. The purpose of a global art market is to respectfully promote and equally recognize cultural others. However, the ... -
Professional Prerequisites for Entry-level Technical Positions
(2007-07-12)Educators, industry representatives and government officials are engaged in an ongoing debate about how to best prepare U.S. science and engineering students for the global workforce. While there is consensus that professional ... -
Miniature Messages: The Semiotics of Latin American Postage Stamps
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A Black Classroom Culture: Student Code-switching in an Inner City Secondary School
(2008-02-05)This project is a study of the speech of African American students within the High School classroom and their verbal communication before, during, and after class. The overall goal is to observe and study their varying ... -
Intercultural Training Models for U.S. Businesses in China
(2008-02-12)This study presents a descriptive analysis of the practices of intercultural training programs employed in U.S. multinational corporations for preparing their employees to go to China on overseas assignments. The study ... -
The Headscarf Controversy in Turkey: Secularism versus Islamism
(2009-01-01)Based on the headscarf conflict in Turkey, this thesis tries to determine whether the current governing party, the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi--AKP), as argued by the Turkish secularists, is ... -
The Cooperative Solution? Community Strategies for Adaptation and Resistance to Globalization in Mexico
(2009-01-01)This ethnographic study analyzes how three Mexican communities are responding to the challenges of globalization, the worldwide integration of economic, political, cultural, religious, and social systems, by creating ... -
Introducción
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John Stolle-McAllister, Grounding Theory: Cultural
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Ethics, Collaboration and Knowledge Production: Digital Storytelling with Sexually Diverse Farmworkers in California
(Cultural Studies Association, 2017-01)This article outlines the digital storytelling methods used for a community based research project focused on issues of sexuality among California farmworkers: Sexualidades Campesinas. We note how our process of collaboration ... -
El saber de la niñez callejera del cine peronista de Toscanito y Adrianita a Crónica de un niño solo (Favio, 1965)
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Don Quixote, Sweded by Michel Gondry in Be Kind Rewind (2008)
(De Gruyter, 2017-12-29)In the spirit of poetic license from Be Kind Rewind (2008), this article argues that Michel Gondry’s film “swedes,” its playful neologism for ersatz remaking of Hollywood and classic films, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don ... -
Refugee Resettlement in the United States: Investigating History and Policy, and Exploring the Experiences of Congolese Refugees in Baltimore
(2018-01-01)The experience of Congolese refugees in Baltimore is deeply affected by the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the evolution of refugee policy. In this thesis I contextualize the modern refugee crisis in ... -
Emotional Intelligence and Intercultural Competence: Theoretical Questions and Pedagogical Possibilities
(Castledown Publishers, 2018-08-20)Against the background of increased global mobility and the need to communicate effectively across cultures, the development of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is of growing importance to those involved in intercultural ... -
Narrative Memory and Reconciliatory Genre Encounters in Norte (2011) by Edmundo Paz Soldán
(Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, 2018-12-27)In Norte (2011) Edmundo Paz Soldán explores multiple perspectives of immigration from Latin America to the United States during the 20th and 21st centuries. The narratives of each of the four protagonists Michelle, Martín, ... -
Enhanced input and enriched context to improve the acquisition of the Spanish grammatical gender assignment and agreement: A preliminary study
(2019-01-01)Research in Second Language Acquisition has diagnosed extensively how the acquisition of a language’s grammatical gender system poses problems to learners of a second language while it is acquired effortlessly by native ... -
Intercultural Interventions: Politics, Community and Environment in the Otavalo Valley
(Cambria Press, 2019-03)Ecuadorian and other Latin American activists and academics involved in decolonial political projects. Emanating from social sectors marginalized by the processes of modernity, interculturality provides a grounded critique ... -
Interculturalidad Crítica Sentipensante
(Universidad Autónoma de México, 2019-05)Una de las propuestas fundamentales de este libro es que se debe usar la interculturalidad como un constructo crítico del análisis socio-cultural. El interculturalismo crítico es sobre todo un proyecto ético y de transformación ... -
Más allá del horror: ética cotidiana y feminismo en el postconflicto chocoano
(Revista de Estudios Colombianos, 2019-06-04)