Vidas desperdiçadas? Uma análise de Estamira, de Marcos Prado, e No quarto de Vanda, de Pedro Costa by Mônica Horta Azeredo

“…By making use of a cinematographic language contrary to the ones of the canons, the film- makers Pedro Costa and Marcos Prado contribute to, by means of a rare snip, an identitary and partial construction of the Portuguese and Brazilian society. …”
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH by Sami Pihlström

“…What is extremely problematic in Putnam’s latest views, however, is his attempt to return to a pre- or non-philosophical way of thinking about the relation between language and the world. His pragmatism is at least sometimes unpleasantly close to Rortyan anti-representationalism. …”
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Development of scientific communication at technical university by M. A. Fedorova, A. M. Zavyalov

“…This problem is closely connected with the formation of scientific culture, academic writing,both in native language and in English. The authors adhere the position that this problem, especially referring to technical universities, can be solved by modeling the technology for academic skills formation, including academic reading, academic writing and also research speaking. …”
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IMPACT OF EXTENSIVE READING ON SOPHOMORE ENGLISH MAJORS’ READING COMPREHENSION DEVELOPMENT AT DALAT UNIVERSITY by Thi Thao Hien Nguyen, Thi Tuong Vy Nguyen

“…The paper concludes by putting forward some pedagogical implications on the implementation of such a program with English language students and lecturers in their courses of reading.…”
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Alimentando a su bebé by Linda B. Bobroff

“…This 3-page fact sheet is the Spanish language version of FCS8545/HE964: Feeding Your Baby. …”
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Analyse de la production de voyelles anglaises par des apprenants francophones, l’acquisition du contraste /ɪ/–/iː/ à la lumière des k-NN by Adrien Méli, Nicolas Ballier

“…Can methods of supervised learning help to evaluate the degree of acquisition of a contrast in a second language? This article addresses the issue of assessing the realizations of /ɪ/ and /iː/ by French learners of English in spontaneous conversations by considering it as a classification problem, which the resort to the k-nearest neighbours algorithm (k-NN) can solve. …”
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Sublime Gaps by Antoine Dechêne

“…Including close readings of Henry James’s “The Figure in the Carpet” (1896) and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (1951), this essay proceeds to show that the “metaphysical” character of these texts lies predominantly in their lack of faith in language as a reliable tool to convey the multiple and shifting identities of the unsuccessful sleuth confronted with the meaninglessness of his investigation.…”
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Datos sobre los flavonoides by Inbar Schapsis, Wendy J. Dahl

“…This is the Spanish-language version of FSHN14-04/FS244: Facts about Flavonoids. …”
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Manual de los Reglamentos del Agua en Florida: Ley del Derecho-a-Saber de la Comunidad y Plan de Emergencia by Michael T. Olexa, Luke D'Isernia, Laura Minton, Dulcy Miller, Sarah Corbett

“…This series is the Spanish language version of the Handbook of Florida Water Regulations by Michael T. …”
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Grammaticalité et changement d’acceptabilité : le cas de help by Mathilde Pinson

“…The corpora chosen for this study, in particular COHA and the Old Bailey Proceedings, reveal that these factors do not simply help to explain the low frequency of dispreferred structures, but can even be considered the main factor triggering language change, in line with Rohdenburg’s prediction (2003: 243). …”
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Contact avec le français et registres de l'occitan moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) by Jean-François Courouau

“…We can therefore assume that, in the reality of oral exchanges in Occitan during the early modern period (16th-18th centuries), diastratic variation is added to the diatopic variation inherent in the dialectal state of the language. The only evidence we have of modern Occitan is in the form of literary texts, and these occasionally reveal, through the contrasting use of francisms and earlier forms, the existence of linguistic registers in Occitan, with a higher register marked by extreme proximity to French (loanwords). …”
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Une méthodologie pour l’enquête sémasiologique by Aline Pons

“…To this end, I chose to carry out the investigations in my Occitan variety, in order to free the informants from the burden of translation into a different language, which is articulated in a different taxonomy of the Alpine space. …”
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Die rol van kommunikasie in die nywerheid by J. H. van der Walt

“…The dilemma which faces South African industry is the heterogeneity of the South African population and that communication must take many factors such as race, cultural development, language and standard of living into account. Recognition by industry of the importance of proper communication in all facets is fundamental to the building of an economically and politically viable social structure in South Africa. …”
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Material interfaces. Biological meets digital by Sabrina Lucibello, Lorena Trebbi, Chiara Del Gesso

“…Bonsiepe, in 1995, had already integrated the material characteristics of objects and the semiotic value of the interface, acknowledging its ability to become a ‘non-verbal language’, ‘spatial system’ establishing new relationships between the human body and technology. …”
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KINDS OF QUESTIONS MAKING EFL STUDENTS LEARN: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION by Mushoffan Prasetianto

“…The participants of the study were the lecturer and students of Language Learning Assessment course. The data of this study were the students’ perceptions on what kinds of questions make them learn and lecturer’s verbal questions. …”
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Adaptation of the Rumination About an Interpersonal Offense Scale into Turkish by Tuncay Oral, Coskun Arslan

“…The English and Turkish version of the scale were administered to teacher candidates in English language teaching to test the linguistic equivalence of the scale. …”
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Crossed Aphasia. I: A Case-Study with Purely Deep Lesion by M. Laiacona, C. Stangalino, L. Lorenzi

“…Among the functions attributed to the standard right hemisphere, MR showed impairment in affective language and presented unilateral neglect and a strong position preference.…”
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The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste by Marianne Keppens

“…More precisely scholars have linked the origin of the caste system to the invasion of a Sanskrit speaking people, the Aryans, who are said to have imposed their language, religion and social structure on an indigenous population called the Dravidians. …”
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Il corpo nelle esperienze di disastro e attivismo in siti contaminati dall’amianto by Agata Mazzeo

“…The body acts as a tool of knowledge and struggle through the language and the practices of activism. From the embodied suffering then a new knowledge and new practices emerge that give concreteness to objectives of social justice, in the daily life of the exposed and survivors.…”
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Datos Sobre la Proteína by Nicole C. Agro, Wendy J. Dahl

“…This 3-page fact sheet is the Spanish-language version of FSHN15-01/FS261: Facts about Protein. …”
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