Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary ImpactThis innovative study compares nineteenth-century Arabic translations of the Bible to determine how it emerged as a foundational text of Arab modernity. Bible translation gained global traction through the work of Anglophone Christian missionaries, who made an attempt at synchronising translated Bibles in world...
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Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic StripsThis book focuses on the unexplored context of contemporary Swedish comic strips as sites of innovative linguistic practices, where humor is derived from language play and creativity, often drawing from English and other European languages as well as social and regional dialects of Swedish....
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Recent Developments in Phase TheoryThe overarching goal of this volume is to explore a number of recent developments in Phase Theory (both theoretical and empirical), thus contributing to our overall understanding of the concept of phases.The volume is divided into three parts, of which the first focuses on...
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Selecting and Implementing Technologies in Libraries: A PrimerNew technology and services are fundamental to maintaining the relevance of libraries today, but which technologies and/or services make sense to implement, and which to avoid? Building from a framework drawn in the overlap of design thinking with best practices in emerging technology and...
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Communicating with Our Families: Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and TransformationCommunicating with Our Families: Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation examines how communication technologies are shaping childhood, parenthood, and families by exploring topics such as parental loneliness, family storytelling, family technology rules, mindful technology usage, multigenerational communication, and community. The scholars in this volume work from...
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Life Lines: What Your Handwriting Says about You, Life Linesis a celebration of how our ordinary, organic and often imperfect handwriting is not just a living form of expression and mode of communication, but also a relevant and poignant way of understanding ourselves and the people around us. Life Lines contains...
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Linguistic Communities and Migratory ProcessesThis inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the 'super-diversifying' of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations. It analyses novel data from interviews with allochthonous and autochthonous groups of monolingual and plurilingual youngsters living...
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What it Takes to TalkThis book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, attention, inhibition, categorisation, analogy and social...
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Integrating GesturesGestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients' cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker's gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech?...
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As Meias do Poeta Victor Nuno de Menezes (Po8 e Físico-Teórico): Obra CompletaVictor Nuno de Menezes é um Poeta Personagem criado por Philipe Pharo da Costa. A figura desta obra é um Físico-Teórico autodidata e libertário que se confronta em monólogo com a sociedade, declarando pensamentos e meias-verdades do Universo Social, vociferando injustiças e proferindo impropérios...
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Communicology: Mutations in Human Relations?Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized...
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New Approaches to Contrastive LinguisticsThe practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two main challenges that had not...
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New media art conservation: 2. Evolutive Conservation Theory based on casesNew media art, produced at the intersection of art, science and technology, makes up the majority of a Museum of Contemporary Art's collections. However, technological obsolescence and technical fragility of the artworks make their conservation-restoration an ongoing challenge. A new theoretical approach to permanence...
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Kites That Flew"Kites That Flew" was an accident book that just happened to materialize due to circumstance, happenstance, and my educational journey while living in the subculture of a prison society. I had to survive...mentally and physically. Deprived of my freedom and bombarded by negativity in...
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Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital ArchivesA collection of accessible, interdisciplinary essays that explore archival practices to unsettle traditional archival theories and methodologies. What would it mean to unsettle the archives? How can we better see the wounded and wounding places and histories that produce absence and silence in the...
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Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five GenerationsMaking an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations, the progressive story of one family is told through five generations, beginning with their journey into the United States during the Mexican Revolution, and culminating with their posterity, attending school online during the COVID19 pandemic....
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The easy way to Danish Grammar: Grammar and exercises with English translationsLearn Danish grammar in an easy but through way. For each part of the grammar, you find exercises for both beginners and advanced learners. All grammar is explained in English. It is explained in a short, easy but though way, followed by exercises. The...
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Geological MeltsVolume 87 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry covers fundamental aspects of the nature of silicate melts and the implications for the systems in which they participate, both technological and natural. The contents of this volume may perhaps best be summarized as structure -...
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Writing an Academic Paper in English: Intermediate LevelIntroduction Chapter 1 Getting started Chapter 2 Introduction and Review of the Literature Chapter 3 Introduction: Part 2 Chapter 4 Methods Chapter 5 Results Chapter 6 Discussion Part 1 Chapter 7 Discussion Part 2 Chapter 8 Conclusions Chapter 9 Abstracts Part 1 Chapter 10...
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Living with Distrust: Morality and Cooperation in a Romanian VillagePeople in the Romanian village of Sateni distrust each other so much, that they would rather take a building apart than share it. Satenis think of life as struggle for scarce resources--a struggle that can lead to deception, exploitation, or predation. Cooperation with unrelated...
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