HEIDI SWANK
Biographic Data
| ID | 4996192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | HEIDI SWANK |
| GIVEN NAMES | HEIDI |
| FAMILY NAME | SWANK |
| SIGNATURE | SWANK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Wanderer in a Distant Place: Tibetan Exile Youth, Literacy, and Emotion
Among Tibetans living in exile in India, expressions of longing and sadness for family, friends and places in Tibet are not uniformly shared across members of the community. Time and distance have faded and idealized their homeland in the memories of long-term exiles. Yet, for a segment of this community called New Arrivals, who have only relatively recently left Tibet, people and places “back home” are real and immediate. The immediacy of these …
A response to Peter T. Daniels
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It all hinges on the vowels: Reconsidering the Alphasyllabary Classification
I argue that formal and ethnographic studies of written language could benefit from greater reciprocal engagement. Recent work on formal aspects of written language has made plain that orthographic typology can help us to understand readers’ phonological awareness as well as inform and shape pedagogical strategies. However, much work on orthographic typologies has not examined actual use of writing systems. Peter Daniels stated that writing can b…
A Wanderer in a Distant Place: Tibetan Exile Youth, Literacy, and Emotion
Among Tibetans living in exile in India, expressions of longing and sadness for family, friends and places in Tibet are not uniformly shared across members of the community. Time and distance have faded and idealized their homeland in the memories of long-term exiles. Yet, for a segment of this community called New Arrivals, who have only relatively recently left Tibet, people and places “back home” are real and immediate. The immediacy of these …
It all hinges on the vowels: Reconsidering the Alphasyllabary Classification
I argue that formal and ethnographic studies of written language could benefit from greater reciprocal engagement. Recent work on formal aspects of written language has made plain that orthographic typology can help us to understand readers’ phonological awareness as well as inform and shape pedagogical strategies. However, much work on orthographic typologies has not examined actual use of writing systems. Peter Daniels stated that writing can b…
A response to Peter T. Daniels
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A Wanderer in a Distant Place: Tibetan Exile Youth, Literacy, and Emotion
Among Tibetans living in exile in India, expressions of longing and sadness for family, friends and places in Tibet are not uniformly shared across members of the community. Time and distance have faded and idealized their homeland in the memories of long-term exiles. Yet, for a segment of this community called New Arrivals, who have only relatively recently left Tibet, people and places “back home” are real and immediate. The immediacy of these …
Sociology (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Academic writing (1 works) · Adaptability (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · China (1 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (1 works)