How to Make a Functionalist Argument by Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa

“…We argue that the resulting inability to talk plainly about functions is a major hindrance for theory building in the discipline. …”
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Faire de son couple une cause by David Michels

“…Then, usually later in the interview, they use a register of “intention.” They talk of their choice as a project in their relationships, which is part of a larger strategy of constructing and managing their couples.…”
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ll Primo "Drone" Fotogrammetrico by Attilio Selvini

“…We had been on first name terms (duzen, in German) ever since he had been a guest of Professor Luigi Mussio and myself at the Milan Polytechnic (I talk about it in my little book “Topografi e fotogrammetri fra cronaca e storia”, published by Maggioli. …”
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Oprah, Meghan, Harry, Pseudo-Events, and a Quick Fix to Boredom by Łukasz Muniowski

“…In order to explain this process, I discuss Oprah, a talk show giant, as a human pseudo-event and the main reason that 49.1 million watched the special.…”
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« Les chevaux sont mes partenaires ! » by Vanina Deneux – Le Barh

“…Using the case of professional relationships between humans and horses, the article examines how professionals in the horse world talk about the work of their animals and the relationships they maintain with them. …”
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Alienation and violence: Frantz Fanon and the israeli-palestinian conflict by Mauro Saccol

“…After that, the accent is put on that branch of Israeli historiography that began to talk about colonization, so to build the appropriate framework where to carry on the analysis. …”
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Les petites villes dans la périurbanisation by Séverine Bonnin-Oliveira

“…Based on statistical analysis, household semi-structured interviews and exploratory talks with land-use practitioners, this article questions the effects of suburbanization on small towns. …”
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Fiction’s Afterlives: Character Migration and Reading Memory by Ivan CALLUS

“…Drawing in particular on the fortunes of Walter Scott and his different literary posterities, and with reference also to related points that emerge in the work of poets from Wordsworth to Alice Oswald and novelists from Henry James to Howard Jacobson, it reflects on the relevance of a concern with literary character in an age dominated by talk about avatars and digital platforms. Reference is also made to relevant criticism in the work of critics like Jerome McGann, Catherine Belsey, and others, in an effort to bring together questions concerning reading memory, literary character, and fictions’ afterlives.…”
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“Soft governance” i förskolans utvecklingssamtal by Ann-Marie Markström

“…Using transcripts of audiotaped episodes from parentteacher conferences, the analysis reveals that the interactions are charactarised by formality in accordance with institutional talk, but also to a large extent informality. Additionally, the analyses show that the parent-teacher conferences are characterised by “soft governance” both in terms of content (what) and form (how). …”
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L’« histoire véritable de la planète Mars »  by Maria Luísa Malato Borralho

“…For those reasons, it seems to us important to talk about a peculiar and rare book, published in Lisbon, in the year of 1921: The Truly Story of the Planet Mars, allegedly attributed to a French traveler, Henri Montgolfier. …”
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Editorial by Hans-Uwe Otto

“…It is not unjustified to talk about a lost generation, and this description applies particularly to southern and eastern European countries. …”
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Existing, resisting and acting through micro-gestures: when everyday life becomes political by Damien Deville, Flavia Pertuso

“…During the interview, he talks about the RCI (Relational Capability Index) he built with philosopher Cécile Renouard and other researchers. …”
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Fabrika ou le travail ouvrier postsoviétique by Pierre Maillot

“…The most straightforward one is that this documentary talks about the difficulties and dangers inherent to this kind of work environment. …”
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Can the ‘Other’ Frame Back in Tourism Studies? by Sarani Pitor Pakan

“…I found myself, who initially aimed to offer reverse South-to-North tourist/photographic framings, trapped in the question concerning whether non-Western tourism researchers are really able and need to frame back and talk back in academia. While the experiment itself might not be able to seriously challenge the Eurocentric knowledge production in tourism studies, I found it useful as a pedagogy of self-reflection through which non-Western tourism researcher, like me, can resituate her/his postcolonial being, thinking, and sensing and be an initial seed of future decolonial praxis.…”
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Queer Language in Italian Audiovisual Translation by Miriam Cuscito

“… This study examines the audiovisual translation of queer language, elements, and themes through a contrastive analysis of the Italian reception of the movie “If These Walls Could Talk II”, created by HBO in 2000 and the British series “Sex Education”, first released in January 2019 on Netflix. …”
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Where’s the Deaf Representation? by Fran Benson

“…Predominantly written by hearing authors she looks at how they approached their books and what they did to ensure authenticity. This talk, which represents a small part of a researched article Fran wrote during her MA, is for anyone interested in disability and deaf representation, as well as those striving for authenticity in their writing. …”
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Suspension du droit et rétrécissement du politique : apothéose de l’État planétaire by Jesús Cuenca De la Rosa

“…In these conditions, to talk about politics as a contract which freely unites the social practises of the individuals from all countries is a product of fiction.…”
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O cômputo das dificuldades by Mitsi Pinheiro de Lacerda

“…My option of understanding uses the propositions of Boaventura Santos when talks about the project of modernity and the contribution of Whitehead, when he speaks of the details present in the frequencies of life. …”
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Interspecies Entanglements by Nick Enright

“…‘Interspecies entanglements’ refers to the relationships of power, knowledge, accumulation, commodification and desire that are perceptible when humans talk about plants in the framework of colonialism. …”
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The Matrix of Authenticity in Influencer Cultures by Abidin Crystal

“…Drawing from longitudinal traditional and digital ethnography rooted in anthropological epistemology, this piece offers ways of thinking about what we really mean when we talk about ‘authenticity’ and ‘Influencer cultures’ today.…”
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