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{"title":"Effects of Gender on Emphasis Production in Jordanian Arabic: A Socio-Phonetic Study","authors":"Ibrahim Eshlash Odeh Almomany","doi":"10.31559/csss2023.1.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31559/csss2023.1.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the effects of gender on two emphatic sounds, namely [sˤ] and [tˤ], in Ajlouni-Jordanian Arabic, a sub-dialect of Rural Jordanian Arabic. The study was mainly motivated by the relatively small literature on the bearing(s) of gender on emphasis production in Jordanian Arabic in general and in Ajlouni Jordanian Arabic specifically. To do so, the effects gender has on emphasis productions in this dialect were tested in mono- and bi-syllabic words, with the emphatic sounds occurring both word-initially and word-finally. The vowel qualities which were incorporated in the stimuli of this study include the long low-back vowel [a:], the short low-back vowel [a], the long high-front vowel [i:], the short mid-high front vowel [ɪ], the long high-back vowel [u:] and the short mid-high back vowel [ʊ]. The sample of this study consisted of 12 native speakers of Ajlouni-Jordanian Arabic, with each speaker producing 48 minimal pairs. The acoustic measurements that were carried out on the data are consonant duration (CD), Voice Onset Time (VOT), and the vowel first three formant frequencies (F1, F2, and F3). The study showed that, relative to gender, only VOT was a reliable acoustic correlate of emphasis where CD, on the one hand, and F1, F2, and F3 in both the target and non-target syllables, on the other hand, showed no significance.","PeriodicalId":437029,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Studies in Social Sciences","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122813650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marginal Identities and Bodies in North African Trance Dance: A Celebration of Madness","authors":"Abdellaoui Said","doi":"10.31559/csss2023.1.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31559/csss2023.1.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between marginal identities, bodies, and the performance of madness in the North African trance dance. It casts light on festive rituals where the illnesses of the soul are manifested through corporeal expressions that variably combine the religious, the spiritual, the socio-cultural, and the psychological aspects. Rather than being stigmatized or pathologized, madness is celebrated to grant a legitimate space and voice to the disadvantaged and marginalized individuals. It is hence posited to produce a counter-discourse that symbolically speaks out against the dictates of formal discourses that control the lives of men and women and shape their identities. By applying a qualitative research method, this study involves observing subjects' corporeal performances in trance from a practice-based perspective. The descriptive analysis of the night of trance (the Lila) takes insights from social semiotics and the concept of the 'meta-sign' to account for the minimal details of madness and the corporeal signs into play. There are stages to follow and intricate bodily moments that would drive the observer of madness to where the order of society comes to a standstill. However, the focus of interest is to assess the readiness of women and men to play other than their normative sociocultural roles in society. The varying dramatic scenes with musical melodies, colors, spirits, litanies, and personifications are overwhelmingly loaded with the passion to celebrate and the desire to transcend time and space. The participants are voluntarily involved in trance as an outlet for their collective endeavor to exteriorize their own mental anxieties and whims. Their sole intention is to defy the prevailing ideologies and the pressures their bodies suffer from. Dancing for them embodies the psychiatric that helps the patients to be dispossessed and hopefully be cured. These observed rites of trance are found to be intentionally performed to relieve individuals from different types of alienation suffered in a 21st century modern world that marginalizes, downgrades, and chains them to the rigidity of disciplinary powers.","PeriodicalId":437029,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Studies in Social Sciences","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115358075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tunisia’s Regional Inequalities of Development: The Human Development Index and Human Poverty Index by Governorate in Tunisia","authors":"Adel Bousnina","doi":"10.31559/csss2023.1.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31559/csss2023.1.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, our aim was at first, to analyze the regional disparities and territorial inequalities of human development in Tunisia. The first part of the article was devoted to the Factorial components analysis. Moreover, the second part was centered on the progress of synthetic indicators of human development in every region, thanks to our approach based on the HDI (Human Development Index), the HPI ((Human poverty Indicator) and a synthetic indicator of human development in every region and governorate.","PeriodicalId":437029,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Studies in Social Sciences","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116376486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"الرفاه النفسي لدى طلبة جامعة اليرموك وعلاقته بالجنس والمستوى الدراسي","authors":"محمد يوسف عبابنة, رافع عقيل الزغول","doi":"10.31559/csss2023.1.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31559/csss2023.1.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"هدفت الدراسة الحالية إلى التعرّف إلى مستوى الرفاه النفسي لدى طلبة جامعة اليرموك، وفيما إذا كان هذا المستوى يختلف باختلاف متغيري الجنس والمستوى الدراسي. تكونت عينة الدراسة من (651) من الطلبة (165 طالبًا، و 486 طالبة) من طلبة البكالوريوس والدراسات العليا المنتظمين، خلال الفصل الدراسي الصيفي من العام 2019/2020 في جامعة اليرموك، وتم اختيارهم بالطريقة المتيسرة. وتم استخدام مقياس الرفاه النفسي لرايف (Ryff, 1989)، والذي تكون من (42) فقرة، وتكون من ستة أبعاد هي: (الاستقلال الذاتي، الإتقان البيئي، الشعور بالنمو الشخصي، العلاقات الإيجابية، الهدف في الحياة، القبول الذاتي). وأظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن مستوى الرفاه النفسي لدى الطلبة جاء متوسطًا، كما كشفت نتائج الدراسة عن وجود اختلاف يعزى لمتغير الجنس لصالح الإناث، وكشفت النتائج عن اختلاف دال إحصائيًا لمتغير المستوى الدراسي لصالح طلبة الدراسات العليا. وفي ضوء النتائج التي توصلت إليها الدراسة الحالية، يوصى بدراسة كل أبعاد الرفاه النفسي لدى فئات المجتمع المختلفة، وبناء برامج تهدف إلى الارتقاء بالرفاه النفسي لدى الطلبة الجامعيين.","PeriodicalId":437029,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Studies in Social Sciences","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131186354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}