scholarly journals Language Situation among the Armenians of Baghdad: A Sociolinguistic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Asst. Inst. Tiba Abdulkareem Al-Obaidi
Keyword(s):  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Ethnic Language ◽  
The Family ◽  
Community Profile ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Demographic Background ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

This study investigates the language situation of the Armenian language among the Armenians of Baghdad. The researcher examines the domains of language where the Armenians use their ethnic language and the factors that support them use their ethnic language side by side with Arabic language. The researcher uses a pilot questionnaire that helped her to create a community profile which gives information about the community. She uses a sociolinguistic questionnaire, which is formed by the information taken from pilot questionnaire, to answer the main questions of the study. She distributed the questionnaire to 50 participants from different demographic background from Armenian community. The study concludes that the Armenians of Baghdad still preserve their ethnic language and use it restrictedly at home, church and in social religious events. The study also finds that the home, the family and the church are the major factors that maintain the Armenian language among the community in Baghdad. It also shows other factors that maintain the Armenian language such as schools, institutions, and the historic events that live in the memory of the community that contribute to the language maintenance.

scholarly journals Languages of Communication in Baghdad: Domains and Perceptions

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1008-1017
Author(s):  
Prof. Bader S. Dweik ◽  
Sara N. Al-Rahal
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Ethnic Language ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Domains ◽  
Demographic Background ◽  
At Home

The purpose of this study is to investigate the domains of use of the Turkmen language and Arabic in Baghdad and to explore attitudes towards Turkmen and Arabic. A sample, comprising (100) subjects from the Turkmen of Baghdad, is selected purposefully to fill out a sociolinguistic questionnaire to solicit information about the participants' demographic background, language use in different contexts and language attitudes towards the ethnic language, Turkmen and the mainstream language, Arabic. The results have revealed that the Turkmen of Baghdad use their ethnic language in different domains especially at home and among the family members. Also, they use both languages (their ethnic language and Arabic) in different social domains such as neighborhood, place of work, schools, media and other public places and have displayed positive attitudes towards Turkmen and Arabic alike.

scholarly journals Language Perceptions and Communication in the Baghdad Turkmen Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Bader Saed Dweik ◽  
Sara Najim Al-Rahal
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Ethnic Language ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Domains ◽  
Demographic Background ◽  
At Home

The purpose of this study is to investigate the domains of use of the Turkmen language and Arabic in Baghdad and to explore attitudes towards Turkmen and Arabic. A sample, comprising (100) subjects from the Turkmen of Baghdad, is selected purposefully to fill out a sociolinguistic questionnaire to solicit information about the participants' demographic background, language use in different contexts and language attitudes towards the ethnic language, Turkmen and the mainstream language, Arabic. The results have revealed that the Turkmen of Baghdad use their ethnic language in different domains especially at home and among the family members. Also, they use both languages (their ethnic language and Arabic) in different social domains such as neighborhood, place of work, schools, media and other public places and have displayed positive attitudes towards Turkmen and Arabic alike.

Dreaming of Prosperity at Home

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-148
Author(s):  
Tony Tian-Ren Lin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Ideal ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

The demands of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism on the family and gender roles are many. The home is a space where the paradox of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism is lived out daily. In traditional Christianity, the family is supposed to be a small-scale replica of the church, where there is a father who serves as the priest, a mother who is his assistant, and a congregation, represented by children who need instruction and guidance. This chapter shows how Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism shapes family dynamics and the logic they use to bridge their family reality to the religious ideal.

Chapter XXXVIII ‘You are so Severe’

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Trollope
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

ON the next morning Arabella went to church, as did of course a great many of the party. By remaining at home she could only have excited suspicion. The church was close to the house, and the family pew consisted of a large room...

scholarly journals The Maintenance of Cakap Karo in Kelurahan Sempakata Medan

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 476-485
Author(s):  
Ingrid Gibretta Khairani Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Heritage Language Maintenance ◽  
Research Communication ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

This research aims at describing the maintenance of Cakap Karo in Kelurahan Sempakata Medan which was focus on Karonese parents’ attitude toward heritage language maintenance for their children and their efforts to help their children maintain Cakap Karo as their heritage language in Kelurahan Sempakata Medan. This research is conducted by using qualitative method. Data were collected from twenty Karonese parents who had a child (or children) between the ages of 6-18 years old in 2019, using the questionnaire and interviews. The result revealed that all the parents in this study had positive attitudes and efforts toward their children’s heritage language maintenance. There are some parents’ effort to enhance children’s Cakap Karo skill that found in this research; communication use Cakap Karo at home, use Karonese books, educational Karonese vocabulary books and Karonese songs, bring to the church of GBKP (Gereja Batak Karo Protestan) and traditional ceremonies, and connect with Karonese relatives and friends in home town using internet. This study confirms that parents’ attitude and efforts play important role in language maintenance. Keywords: Maintenance, Cakap Karo, Parents’ attitude, Heritage Language, Kelurahan Sempakata

Missional spirituality at home: Families and the life of the kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 316-329
Author(s):  
Ed Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Christian Formation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Spirituality ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

Missiological texts typically focus on the church or individuals as the agents of mission (within the missio Dei) and it is rare to find any reference to families or the home. Such an omission, however, overlooks the extent to which families can witness to the transforming grace of God in the midst of the world. In this article, I explore the importance of families for mission, and argue that the New Testament shows that the family is subordinated to the church but also transformed by the kingdom. In the light of the New Testament witness, I explore three scriptural themes of a family spirituality for mission; holiness, hospitality, and service. Given the significance of life within the home, the disciplines of missiology and Christian spirituality need to engage more deeply with the family as a context for Christian formation and outreach.

Congregationalists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Orchard
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Local Congregations ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

Like Presbyterians, Congregationalists drew on a broadly Calvinist heritage, which found expression in both the Westminster Confession and the Savoy Declaration. While Presbyterians emphasized the importance of the Presbytery for governing the church, Congregationalists were independently minded and tended to privilege the community of gathered believers itself. However, in practice Congregationalism was more of an ethos and philosophy than a reflection of how all local congregations operated and the boundaries between different strands of dissent could be porous. Disputes and divisions between Dissenters at a local and national level gradually led to the need for increased denominational infrastructure and organization, although the Congregational Union of England and Wales was not founded until 1831. Associations of local ministers became, following the growth of revivalism, springboards for mission at home and abroad.

‘The healthe of my soule’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Clark
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Royal Supremacy ◽  
The Church

Throughout the sixteenth century and beyond, the Howards are usually described as religiously ‘conservative’, resisting the reformist impulse of the Reformation while conforming to the royal supremacy over the Church. The women of the family have played little part in this characterization, yet they too lived through the earliest stages of the Reformation. This chapter shows that what we see is not a family following the lead of its patriarch in religious matters at this early stage of the Reformation, but that this did not stop them maintaining strong kinship relations across the shifting religious spectrum.

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