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The development of translation theories in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Este artigo trata do desenvolvimento dos estudos da tradução na Europa, no siculo XX. O maior enfoque está na mudança da perspeciiva de pesquisa, da comparação entre línguas para a confrontação de textos e da focalização datradução como atividade ...
Stolze, Radegundis
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
wiley   +1 more source

Nature and Culture in Prehistoric Amazonia : Using G.I.S. to reconstruct ancient ethnogenetic processes from archaeology, linguistics, geography, and ethnohistory

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis investigates the socio-cultural and linguistic development of pre-Columbian Amazonia, with a particular focus on the period between 500 BC and AD 1500. In assembling and analyzing data from archaeology, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, and geography in a Geographical Information System (G.I.S.), it synthesizes large amounts of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Truth, Transcendence, and the Good [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Nietzsche regarded nihilism as an outgrowth of the natural sciences which, he worried, were bringing about “an essentially mechanistic [and hence meaningless] world.” Nihilism in this sense refers to the doctrine that there are no values, or that ...
Bourke, Michael
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the mirror of the culture of Ancient Japan: Charles Haguenauer’s anthropological and linguistic field survey in 1930 Okinawa

open access: yes, 2012
Futur professeur à la Sorbonne, fondateur de l’Institut des hautes études japonaises du Collège de France, Charles Haguenauer (1896-1976) se rend à Okinawa durant l’année 1930, alors qu’il est pensionnaire à la Maison franco-japonaise de Tokyo, pour y mener une enquête ethnologique et linguistique.
openaire   +1 more source

Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese and North American Culture: a New Perspective in Linguistics Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We explored the two cultures in the two countries. There has been discussed on Chinese culture and North American culture. Chinese language, ceramics, architecture, music, dance, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts, philosophy, business ...
Huan, C. Y. (Cheng), Li, Z. X. (Ziang)
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Dimensions of Language Awareness of Multilingual Migrant Adolescents – A Means to Enhance Epistemic Diversity in the Classroom

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilingualism is very prevalent in German schools. However, the German school system does little justice to this fact and persists in a monolingual habitus. This appears problematic not only in respect to educational equity, but it also undermines holistic approaches to learning.
Nora von Dewitz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Consumption Translation: Exploring Interlingual Translation Within Multilingual (mainland) China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interlingual translation, as defined by Roman Jakobson, refers to the transfer of meaning between languages. However, this concept has often been conflated with linguistic shifts between distinct cultures and nation‐states. To challenge this misconception, I propose the concept of self‐consumption translation (SCT), a subfield of interlingual ...
Bilin (Belen) Liu
wiley   +1 more source

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