Developing intercultural competence by teaching literature: principles and practice from a case-study in two Algerian universities by Lamia Nemouchi, Michael Byram

“…We first define essential concepts that guided this course - ‘culture’, ‘language-culture nexus’ and ‘intercultural competence’ - before we explain the socio-linguistic and socio-cultural context in Algeria, as it is the foundation of the choice of literary texts. …”
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Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI by Martin Holmes

“…Many cryptic clues depend for their effect on confusing the solver through the use of overlapping syntactic and semantic hierarchies, so they serve as evidence that overlapping hierarchies are not merely an unfortunate limitation afflicting XML languages but are psychologically and linguistically real. Finally, I present a TEI schema and an approach to encoding the components of cryptic crossword clues in a way that enables algorithmic analysis of trends, features, and clue types, with a view to creating a historical corpus of encoded clues which will illuminate the evolution of the tradition.…”
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Less Stringent Global Health Treaties: Insights from Various Regimes by Rafsi Azzam Hibatullah Albar

“…Lastly, the research proposed four main ideas that make up the ideal party: cognizance of pre-existing realities, allowance for differentiated commitment levels, careful linguistic choices, and the inclusion of a minimal yet effective enforcement mechanism.…”
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Towards a "literary" translation of the Scriptures: with special reference to a "poetic" rendition by E. R. Wendland

“…Such a method features a genre-based, functional application of interlingual discourse analysis and representation that aims to reproduce the literary (especially the “poetic”) quality and energy of the original text (certain aspects of its structure, style, impact, and appeal) within a new linguistic and sociocultural environment. The importance of this local milieu requires the active participation of the target language community during the formulation and execution of an appropriate translation brief, or planning document, including the project’s principal communicative purpose (skopos). …”
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Towards a Pattern Language Approach to Document Description by Robert Waller, Judy Delin, Martin Thomas

“…First, we are interested in their use as exemplars for designers to follow, and second, we suggest them as a means of understanding linguistic and graphical data for their organization into corpora that will facilitate descriptive work. …”
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Discourse Cohesion and Accessibility of Referents in Oral Narratives: A Comparison of L1 and L2 Acquisition of French and English by Pascale Leclercq, Ewa Lenart

“…Thiss study aims at comparing L1 and L2 acquisition processes through an analysis of the linguistic means used to ensure discourse cohesion in the oral narratives of French and English four-, seven- and ten-year-old children and of adult learners of these two languages. …”
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De la revendication kabyle à la revendication amazighe : d’une contestation locale à une revendication globale by Nassim Amrouche

“…By these events, cultural and linguistic Kabyles demanded recognition for a Kabyle identity within an Algerian nation that represents itself is as Muslim and Arabic. …”
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Ìgbélárugẹ Èdè: Akinwumi Isola’s Model for Promoting African Languages by Akinloye Ojo

“…These highlighted areas go beyond now fashionable and expressed goal of focusing on literature in African languages (splendor in African languages) onto push for fairness for languages and their speakers (linguistic justice). …”
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The Cooperation Partner Selection of Private Sector under Public-Private-Partnership Projects: An Improved Approach under Group Decision-Making Based on FRS, SAW, and Integrated Ob... by Jiawu Gan, Yingying Zhang, Yanan Hu, Sen Liu

“…Secondly, we determine the important decision of the consistency of the manufacturer, introduce linguistic variables, calculate and collect the fuzzy weighted personal attributes, evaluate the importance of the attributes, and get the comprehensive fuzzy evaluation. …”
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Proposta de aclaração do “pacto sucessório” à luz de novos dados by Abel Estefânio

“…In the present paper, it is developed the study of the linguistic argument, which proved to be inconclusive. …”
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Unidentified Verbal Objects by Esa Kirkkopelto

“…This conclusion, if it holds, leads towards an expanded idea of language where being linguistic and being or having a body coincide. The idea is sustained by evidence rising out of consideration of the basic corporeal operations of a scenic performer as they try to embody their textual material performatively. …”
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Transitivité de l’action et ses expressions en trumai (langue isolée du Haut Xingú, Brésil) by Aurore Monod Becquelin, Cédric Becquey

“…This exercise requires a consideration of the interface between language and culture, a place where the use of different meanings of the term “agency”—defined on linguistic, ethnologic and ethnolinguistic levels—constitute so many avenues for interpreting our data (transitivity and agents, the semantics of verbs, the position of the speaker in relation to the agents to whom he is speaking, the status of parameters as animacy or specificity).…”
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Implementing quantitative data in a qualitative contrastive approach: the case of COME+V-ING by Lucie Gournay

“…In order to do so, the linguistic focus of the study is the homotactic sequence COME+V-ING in English. …”
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Exploring the efficacy of explicit encoding and fast mapping in second language vocabulary acquisition among Chinese graduate students by Jingjing Wu, Le Cheng, Xiaowen Zhao

“…These findings emphasize the importance of customizing learning strategies based on learners’ linguistic abilities and provide empirical support for the effective integration of various learning strategies. …”
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La querelle des noms. Chaînes et strates ethnonymiques dans le Chaco boréal by Nicolas Richard

“…As a result, the Chaco – which 18th century Jesuits called the « American Babel » because of its unstable linguistic fragmentation – will become more intelligible.…”
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Using Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Assessing the Risk of Railway Reconstruction Project in Taiwan by Shih-Tong Lu, Shih-Heng Yu, Dong-Shang Chang

“…Subjectivity, uncertainty and vagueness within the assessment process are dealt with using linguistic variables parameterized by trapezoid fuzzy numbers. …”
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Le génitif anglais et la métaphore adamczewskienne de soudure by Evelyne Chabert

“…As is common in cases of information packaging, in which a speaker chooses the form best matching their intention, various models have been exposed in the linguistic literature to account for the factors at play in the choice between the genitive construction (the dog’s kennel) and the of-phrase (the kennel of the dog). …”
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Affective prosody in grunts of young chimpanzees by Derry Taylor, Guillaume Dezecache, Marina Davila-Ross

“…This ability, known as ‘affective prosody’, takes pre-linguistic roots and plays an important role in human communication throughout the lifespan by enabling listeners to disambiguate the meaning of speakers’ utterances. …”
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Futuros en contrapunto: proyección, predicción y deseo en maya yucateco by Valentina Vapnarsky

“…It is based on an analysis of linguistic choices in the expression of prospective utterances, which are examined ethnographically in the midst of communicative situations. …”
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Les systèmes graphiques de l’occitan by Hervé Lieutard

“…The graphic codes used to write Occitan have been the subject of occasional studies, but have never so far been the guiding thread for studying the history of the language in all its extent, perhaps because of the compartmentalization that exists and persists today between medieval philologists on the one hand and linguists and dialectologists on the other, who often give the impression of working on two distinct objects, where there is only one and the same language. …”
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