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I discovered the International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS) last year. It is published by UNESCO, and since the late 1990s has included themes like “Pluralism and Multiculturalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies”, “Multiculturalism and Political Integration in Modern Nation-States” and “Protecting Endangered Minority Languages: Sociolinguistic Perspectives”. I’m consistently delighted every time I consult something… [Read more…]
November 24, 2009
Chantale Marentette, a linguistics student from Toronto, is doing a study on cross-border speech and language patterns in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Torontonians/Torontoans are also included in the study. The following survey was developed by Prof. Jack Chambers from the University of Toronto. It’s entitled “Dialect Topography”. If you are from any of these metro… [Read more…]
November 19, 2009
I’ve been reading the book “Law and Justice in a Multicultural Society: The Case of Mozambique. Interestingly I am only one degree of separation away from one of the authors of the book, former supreme court justice João Carlos Trinidade, through one of the student translators from our trip – Benedito. I don’t know if… [Read more…]
November 2, 2009
Hours collide, often with my head and bones aching, scrambling to eat breakfast, starting the day and ending it with the sentimental weather. (overcast, sunny, overcast, sunny…) I went to Chibuto and Xai Xai in Gaza province on Thursday. The landscape mostly flat, wiry trees and scattered crops passed quickly by the window. I wonder… [Read more…]
October 28, 2009
On Tuesday my group went to the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane again. My teammates and I spent some time on reflection and goal setting, then we waited to see our newfound contact at the school — a cheery Portuguese teacher who goes by his surname Goba. I found it hard to focus on new acquaintances and… [Read more…]
October 26, 2009
Portuguese, Changana, Echuwabo, English Elections, Observation Missions, Fliers, Capulanas Students, Orphans, Believers, Peddlers Embassies, Credentials, Maps, Interviews ………….. This Morning the class visited the U.S. Embassy. One of the diplomats made an appointment for us to interview the director of the law school of the main university in Mozambique, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. We interviewed a… [Read more…]
December 8, 2009
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