Social classes

From the mid-nineteenth century, Britain experienced a ‘detective craze’ in popular culture. The girl detective emerged comparatively late in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the prominence and permeation of the girl detective in British experiences of girlhood…

Built after several immigration waves, Amman developed its own dialect. Previous studies investigated the stylistic and social reallocation process (Britain & Trudgill, 2005) that happened to some major phonemes. The three phonemes [k], [ʔ] and [g] are dialectal reflexes of the …

The Kemalist revolution in Turkey, a modernist project aiming to develop the state structure as well as society from above (top down), had to face various cultural and ideological reactions against its new regime as early as the late 1920s. Those reactions had at their core eith…