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Predictors of audience engagement among Nigerian journalists 预测尼日利亚记者的观众参与度

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-20 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.29

Ogemdi Uchenna Eze, Kenechukwu Josemaria Ugwu, Alphonsus Chukwuma Ugwu

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Types of Code-switching among Young Adults with Bilingualism 双语青年语码转换的类型

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-20 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.08

Ruba S, P. S., Kala Samayan

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Representing Gandhi: A Study of Mahatma Gandhi as a Character in Selected Novels from Colonial and Post-Colonial Times 代表甘地:殖民与后殖民时期小说选集中的圣雄甘地人物研究

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-20 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.07

Mainak Gupta

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Phonological idiosyncrasies of the Southern Sorsogon dialect in Bulan, Philippines 菲律宾布兰索索贡南部方言的语音特点

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-20 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.05

Dominic Bryan S. San Jose, John Gerald A. Pilar

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On the Perceptibility of Motion: An Inquiry from the Indian Philosophical Traditions 论运动的可感知性——从印度哲学传统谈起

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.04

Manoj Bhandari, S. Bhat, Vishwanath Dhital

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Neoclassicism in Bangla Word Formation Processes 孟加拉语构词过程中的新古典主义

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.03

Tanushree Sarkar

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Contrasting Approaches to Language, Meaning, and Knowledge in Advaita Vedanta and the Western Literary Traditions 《吠陀》与西方文学传统的语言、意义和知识对比

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.02

Aayushee Garg

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Ecotopia: Ecological Concerns and Alternate Womanspace in Select Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin 生态乌托邦:厄休拉·勒奎恩小说选集中的生态关怀与另类女性空间

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.28

Asish Kr. Charan, Tanu Gupta

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‘I’ll tell that human tale’: Documenting the Wartime Sexual Violence in Jing-Jing Lee’s How We Disappeared (2019) “我会讲述那个人类故事”：记录李的《我们如何消失》（2019）中的战时性暴力

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.01

Ashmita Biswas

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Terroristic Torture in George Orwell’s 1984 and Abdul-Sattar Nasir’s Eggplant Peels 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》和阿卜杜勒·萨塔尔·纳西尔的《茄子皮》中的恐怖主义折磨

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.29

Bushra Juhi Jani

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