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  2. Customization (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    cultural borrowing; partial borrowing; pilot borrowing; customization; conceptual borrowing; However, within the review, customization is found to be most effective. Lewis argues that customization allows each country to take their own needs into account while allowing for cultural flows. This is important because cultural flows are often ...

  3. Cultural appropriation - Wikipedia

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    A common example of cultural appropriation is the adoption of the iconography of another culture and its use for purposes that are unintended by the original culture or even offensive to that culture's mores. For example, the use of Native American tribal names or images as mascots.

  4. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Commonplace calques locus commūnis (referring to a generally applicable literary passage), which itself is a calque of Greek koinos topos [47] Devil's advocate calques advocātus diabolī, referring to an official appointed to present arguments against a proposed canonization or beatification in the Catholic Church [48]

  5. Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew

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    It analyses the tension between linguistic creativity and cultural flirting on the one hand, and the preservation of a distinct language identity on the other hand. [2] The analysis presented in this book challenges Einar Haugen's classic typology of lexical borrowing. Whereas Haugen categorizes borrowing into either substitution or importation ...

  6. Standard Cross-Cultural Sample - Wikipedia

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    Cross-cultural research entails a particular statistical problem, known as Phylogenetic autocorrelation: tests of functional relationships (for example, a test of the hypothesis that societies with pronounced male dominance are more warlike) can be confounded because the samples of cultures are not independent. Traits can be associated not only ...

  7. Borrowing (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, borrowing is a type of language change in which a language or dialect undergoes change as a result of contact with another language or dialect. In typical cases of borrowing, speakers of one language (the "recipient" language) adopt into their own speech a novel linguistic feature that they were exposed to due to its presence in a different language (the "source" or "donor ...

  8. 30 Of The Funniest Black Friday Memes To Check Out ... - AOL

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    Start by creating a prioritized shopping list based on your actual needs or planned gifts, and set a firm budget," Johnson said. #4. Image credits: memes_on_instaaaaa #5. Image credits: mnext #6.

  9. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    Examples of loanwords in the English language include café (from French café, which means "coffee"), bazaar (from Persian bāzār, which means "market"), and kindergarten (from German Kindergarten, which literally means "children's garden").