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ItemNo Preview AvailableA Cross-Cultural Analysis of Thanks and Apologies by Native and Non-native Speakers of JapaneseTakagi, A ; Mackie, V ; Skoutarides, A ; Tokita, A (Monash Asia Institute, 2000-01)This study identifies differences and similarities in the communicative acts of thanking and apologising by native and non-native speakers of Japanese; it includes consideration of the speakers' gender and their interpretation of the sociological dynamics of the situations where speech acts were used.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableManuscript Use and Typesetting IssuesTakagi, A ; Cope, B ; Gollings, G (Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd, 2001)The emerging technological tools of digital text creation and manufacture make possible quite the opposite - the revival of small cultures and languages. This book sets out to argue two things.
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ItemPublic policy for a modernising China: The challenge of providing universal access to education under fiscal decentralisationWong, C ; Dougherty, S ; Kim, J (OECD, 2019)One of the key inequalities in China today is the divide between urban residents with local registration (hukou) and those without. This chapter examines the historical and systemic causes of this divide between the hukou and non-hukou populations, focusing on the provision of basic education. The limited access to urban schooling for the children of rural migrants is a divisive issue in the debate on citizenship and social rights of migrants, and one with adverse implications for labour markets and intergenerational mobility. This chapter uses the provision of basic education to illustrate how fiscal decentralisation in China – under particular historical circumstances, produced a divisive, rather than inclusive growth outcome. Moreover, even though education policies have shifted over the past two decades to calling for inclusiveness, their impact has to date remained limited, leaving the government with an inequality it does not want and finding very difficult to reverse.
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ItemBudget reform in China: Progress and prospects in the Xi Jinping eraWong, C ; Podger, A ; Su, T ; Wanna, J ; Chan, HS ; Niu, M (ANU Press, 2018)
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ItemThe amalgamation of MalagasyAdelaar, KAA ; Bowden, J ; Himmelmann, NP ; Ross, M (Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2010)
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ItemThe comparative method in Austronesian linguisticsAdelaar, K ; Klein, J ; Joseph, B ; Fritz, M ; Wenthe, M (Mouton de Gruyter, 2017)This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of IndoEuropean Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
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ItemOn the History of Malagasy Terms for Human Body PartsAdelaar, A ; Sikorsky, VV ; Pogadaev, VA (IAAS Moscow Lomonosov State University, 2019)
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ItemWho were the first Malagasy, and what did they speak?Adelaar, A ; Acri, A ; Blench, R ; Landmann, A (Institute of South East Asian Studies, 2017-01-01)
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ItemLocal and Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Food Systems in IndonesiaReuter, T ; Macrae, G ; Oosterbeek, L ; Caron, L (Instituto Terra e Memória, 2019)Limited supply, increasing demand, environmental change and inequality are major drivers of a looming global food security crisis, and Indonesia is among 30 most at risk countries. Since the 1960s Indonesia has industrialised agriculture, following the advice of the global bio-tech research complex, corporations and development agencies. There is, however, an alternative approach, favoured by local grassroots organisations, NGOs and many researchers; of moral economy-based solutions grounded in communal solidarity, small-scale production, local knowledge and direct distribution networks. To illustrate the viability of this alternative, the paper explores new farmers’ initiatives that provide high-yield, high-quality, low-cost food with ecologically and socially responsible methods. Using ‘symbiotic cooperation’ strategies founded upon a moral economy ethos, they protect farmer livelihoods and vulnerable consumers. The case studies presented contribute toward a model for a worldwide transition to socially and ecologically sustainable regional food systems.
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ItemWorld Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA)Reuter, T ; Callan, H (John Wiley & Sons, 2018-10-05)Since the early twentieth century, countless modern anthropological studies have paid tribute to the richness of cultural diversity across societies, as well as highlighting some of the existential conditions we all share as human beings. The discipline has not been able to serve as an undistorted mirror of this unity in diversity, however, because scholars from a few privileged nations have dominated the process of anthropological knowledge construction over most of this period of time. The World Council of Anthropological Associations was founded to overcome this deficit by providing a global platform for free communication and democratic participation in the spirit of a new “world anthropologies” paradigm.