“They paved the Atlantic with books”: William and Jenny Bradley, literary agents and cultural passeurs across borders by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…This article first aims at including the two agents into the communications circuit relevant to book history that unfolds from writer to editor and on to reader, at a time when the book industry became more international. …”
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On the rhetoric of handmaidenhood: The translator’s construction of (im)modesty by Kelly Washbourne

“…Ethos, persona, and hexis form part of the self-fashioning strategies that are also trust-building, and which often reveal slippages into self-assertions and even preemptive challenges. …”
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Professional Language Training of International Students in the Multicultural Environment of University for International Relations by T. Glebova

“…The language of teaching in most universities of the Russian Federation is Russian, besides, all MGIMO students are obliged to learn English either as their first or second foreign language, that is why international students have to study in a tri-lingual environment and the interfering influence of several cultures. The writer points out that under such circumstances it is necessary for future IR specialists to build a number of professionally relevant competences: linguistic, socio-cultural, communicative, and suggests educational technologies that have proved to be effective in building them: case-study, role-plays, etc. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…In this chapter, the writer also briefly mentions the Jewish Question, as it was a significant debate around the same time. …”
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Experiencia y muerte según Rodrigo Fresán by Martín Lombardo

“…At the same time, it studies the particular way in which he builds his tales.…”
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Человеческая жизнь на фоне временного пространства. Романы М.А. Осоргина „Свидетель истории” и „Книга о концах”... by Antoni Murawski

“…The main theme of this article is specific perceiving of reality and the historical process in the novels of Mikhail Osorgin. The writer tries to explain the sense of socialistic movement in Russia and it’s consequence – the revolution and the civil war 1917–1919. …”
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Colocar-se em palavras: memórias de um percurso íntimo by Regina Dalcastagnè

“…Based on a rapprochement between the award-winning novel Nur na escuridão (Nur in darkness), by Salim Miguel, which tells his family’s saga during his immi- gration from Lebanon to Brazil, and the unpublished manuscripts of Jose Miguel, the author’s father, who tells the same story, this article discusses the reasons for writing and the use of narrative resources to build a meaning for his life. Amid the text of a legitimate writer and the one of an old grocer who wrote in Arabic and has hidden his notebook to death, there is a common will to truth, although the results may be different, with emphasis either to the “typical” character of the experience or to what it has of “singular”.…”
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À terceira margem, a terceira imagem: os afetos triangulares nas narrativas de Carola Saavedra by Maria Fernanda Garbero de Aragão

“…The present article proposes a reading of affective relations in the analysis of three novels by the writer Carola Saavedra, Toda terça (2007), Flores azuis (2008) and Paisagem com dromedário (2010), here understood as a project of a trilogy of affections. …”
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The approximators about, at least and nearly as interpersonal devices in nineteenth-century women’s instructive texts by Elena Quintana Toledo

“…While still retaining their approximative sense, about, at least and nearly have a large potential to build and maintain writer-reader interpersonal relationships. …”
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THE STUDY OF NATURALISM ON A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUN NOVEL by Nida Mufidah

“…This way can in one hand promote literacy and critical thinking of the students and facilitate students to build a learner center environment in learning.  …”
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Interaktion im wissenschaftlichen Fachtext aus kontrastiver Sicht. Untersucht anhand von deutschen und lettischen linguistischen Aufsätzen by Agnese Dubova, Diāna Laiveniece, Dzintra Lele-Rozentāle

“…Discourse markers such as hedges, boosters, attitude markers, self mentions, and engagement markers that build a relationship with the reader are analysed. …”
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Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner by Jenkins Tricia

“…The paper is also self-reflective, as the writer embarks upon the formal route of PhD research, questioning the assumed benefits of the practice that has dominated the last eight years of over thirty years as a teacher and avid promoter of participatory media as a means to effect positive change. …”
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Mr. Keating’s Role as English Teacher as Seen in The Main Character of Dead Poet Society the Movie by M. Afifulloh

“…In this multidisciplinary approach, the writer uses sociology, psychology and historical approaches to conduct the result of the research. …”
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