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La gradabilité nominale en anglais et en français
Anglophonia, 2018 The aim of this paper is to describe the gradability of nouns in French and in English. After a description of different conceptions of nominal gradability in the literature, we provide our definition of lexical gradability. Three classes of nouns can be
Pauline Haas, Anne Jugnet
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Why and how people of limited intelligence become calendrical calculators [PDF]
, 2001 Calendrical calculation is the rare talent of naming the days of the week for dates in the past and future. Calendrical savants are people with low measured intelligence who have this talent.
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‘One must eliminate the effects of … diffuse circulation [and] their unstable and dangerous coagulation’: Foucault and beyond the stopping of mobilities [PDF]
, 2014 Foucault spent time investigating the stopping of mobilities, notably when studying carceral spaces such as asylums and prisons which effectively immobilise their inmates at a societal scale. In Discipline and Punish, he speculates on how such spaces are
Philo, Chris
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Calendrical savants: Exceptionality and practice [PDF]
, 2005 The exceptionality of the skills of calendrical savants and the role of practice were investigated. Experiment 1 compared four autistic calendrical savants to Professor Conway, a distinguished mathematician with calendrical skills.
Carney, Daniel, Cowan, Richard
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НеофилологияINTRODUCTION. An analysis of the sustained metaphor of “purgatory” is conducted, which unites I.S. Shmelyov’s later literary-critical essay “On Dostoevsky” with the novel “The Idiot” (1949) and his autofiction “Pilgrimage” (1931).
A. V. Markov
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Prince Myshkin’s Bundle: the Function of a Symbolic Detailin Dostoevsky’s Novel Тhe Idiot [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2019 The article deals with the artistic function of the symbolic detail in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. Such a meaning-forming symbolic detail, a thingthrough which reveals not only the essence of the personality of the protagonist, butalso the ...
Olga Y. Yuryeva
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Филологический класс, 2022 The article establishes poetic-typological correspondences between N. S. Leskov’s novel “Neglected People” (1865) and F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot” (1868–1869).
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Charles West: a 19th century perspective on acquired childhood aphasia [PDF]
, 2005 Dr Charles West was the founder (1852) of the first paediatric hospital in the English-speaking world. In a career spanning four decades, he devoted a great part of his energies to describing the nervous diseases of infants and children.
Hellal, Paula, Lorch, Marjorie
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PERKEMBANGAN MAKNA PEYORATIF PADA KATA BAHASA INGGRIS ‘IDIOT’: SEBUAH KAJIAN ETIMOLOGI
Apollo Project: Jurnal Ilmiah Program Studi Sastra Inggris, 2018 This study argues that every word of any natural language is prone to meaning modification known as pejoration. Pejoration happens when a meaning of words becomes negative and it is different from its original meaning. In order to answer that phenomenon, this study entitled “Pejorative Development of English Word ‘Idiot’: A Study of Etymologyâ ...
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A BEAUTY THAT SAVES: DOSTOEVSKY’S THEOLOGY OF BEAUTY THE IDIOT [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines Dostoevsky’s understanding of beauty and its place in The Idiot. Examining the historical and immediate environment in which Dostoevsky wrote the novel provides crucial insights into his conception of beauty.
Day, Joseph M
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