The lived experiences of women principals in rural secondary schools regarding their career pathways by Mthethwa, Joyce F., Kutame, Azwidohwi P., Buthelezi, Alan B., Ajani, Oluwatoyin Ayodele

“…Findings revealed that some communities’ cultures continue to dominantly influence women principals’ career pathways, despite policies or efforts to promote gender equality in South Africa. The social attitude or ‘injustice’ against female principals in rural environments has limited their quest to pursue their careers further or to aspire to top administrative leadership positions in education. …”
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Selling English: advertising as a phonopragmatic medium for teaching intonation use by Demina, Malvina A.

“…Advertising is among the most dynamic engines of language innovation, a “living” laboratory of catch-phrases and slang that give insight into modern social attitudes and developments. This study argues that advertising is an underappreciated resource for effective teaching of suprasegmental characteristics. …”
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Re-inventing the self: constructions of identity in Malaysian Blogosphere by Noraini Md. Yusof

“…Thus, identifying ambivalence in the way one perceives oneself and the choices made to present one’s self to others, as well as attributing that ambivalence to social factors (such as social attitudes toward questions of gender ambiguity and appropriation of history) may bring to light issues pertaining to identity reconstruction and the implications of such trends on contemporary constructs of the self in Malaysia.…”
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