North America as Contact Zone: Native American Literary Nationalism and the Cross-Cultural Dilemma

Evidence of three kinds is given for the cross-cultural generality of a three-factor structure of source image: Safety, Dynamism and Qualification, which emerges across sources, scales, cultures, instructions and situations.

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Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives on Code Switching in Classrooms

Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies - Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Approaches to Language and Literacy Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8668-7.ch014 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 345-366

Author(s):

James R. King

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Second Language ◽

Contact Zone ◽

Community Building ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Code Switching ◽

Language Classrooms ◽

The Cross ◽

Split Personality ◽

Cultural Components

In educational contexts, codeswitching (CS) is deployed in a binary fashion. Either CS is a productive strategy (a translanguaging, revisionists' claim), or CS is a “bad habit” signaling linguistic deficits. Some of the variance in understanding CS results from specific contexts. When a second language is used in a content classroom, the productive use of CS as a viable strategy for explication, management, and community building may also suffer from confusion. Yet, CS in language classrooms is a concern for teachers. Confusion emanates from two theoretical accounts for CS (structural and functional). For educational uses, CS suffers from this “split personality,” with resolution found in a “contact zone” account. I draw from the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contexts of South Africa to explain notions of CS, and specifically as CS relates to literacy in some cases. The cross-cultural components play a role in explaining CS as it relates to literacy.

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Walking Patterns in a Sample of African American, Native American, and Caucasian Women: The Cross-Cultural Activity Participation Study

Health Education & Behavior ◽

10.1177/1090198104266034 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 31 (4_suppl) ◽

pp. 45S-56S ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Melicia C. Whitt ◽

Katrina D. DuBose ◽

Barbara E. Ainsworth ◽

Catrine Tudor-Locke

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Native American ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Activity Participation ◽

Cultural Activity ◽

The Cross ◽

Caucasian Women

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“Ravishing Odors of Paradise”: Jesuits, Olfaction, and Seventeenth-Century North America

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875815002637 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 827-852 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ANDREW KETTLER

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Native Americans ◽

North America ◽

North American ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

New France ◽

Counter Reformation ◽

Cultural Accommodation ◽

Pays D'en Haut

In seventeenth-century North America, efforts at cultural accommodation through similarities in olfactory inclusive spiritual sensoriums helped to create cross-cultural concordance between Jesuit Fathers and Native Americans in New France, the St. Lawrence Valley, and the Pays d'en Haut. Jesuits engaged Native Americans towards Catholic conversion by using scentful tactics and sensory rhetoric. Jesuits increased their own respect for the olfactory during their North American encounters due to a siege mentality born of the Counter-Reformation and from a forcefully influential Native American respect for multisensory forms of environmental and spiritual literacy which included a heightened reverence for odors.

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The cross-cultural expression of internet gaming distress in North America, Europe, and China

Addictive Behaviors Reports ◽

10.1016/j.abrep.2018.100146 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 100146 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass ◽

Wen Zhao ◽

Michael G. Lacy ◽

Shaozeng Zhang ◽

Rachel Tate

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Expression ◽

Internet Gaming ◽

The Cross

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The Cross-Cultural Equivalence of Parental Rearing Measure: EMBU-C

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759.22.2.85 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 85-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Maja Deković ◽

Margreet ten Have ◽

Wilma A.M. Vollebergh ◽

Trees Pels ◽

Annerieke Oosterwegel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Child Rearing ◽

Latent Factors ◽

Immigrant Adolescents ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Parental Rearing ◽

The Cross ◽

Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis

We examined the cross-cultural equivalence of a widely used instrument that assesses perceived parental rearing, the EMBU-C, among native Dutch and immigrant adolescents living in The Netherlands. The results of a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the factor structure of the EMBU-C, consisting of three latent factors (Warmth, Rejection, and Overprotection), and reliabilities of these scales are similar in both samples. These findings lend further support for the factorial and construct validity of this instrument. The comparison of perceived child rearing between native Dutch and immigrant adolescents showed cultural differences in only one of the assessed dimensions: Immigrant adolescents perceive their parents as more overprotective than do Dutch adolescents.

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