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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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A Questioning tothe ”Hypothesis of Fujian and Taiwan” in the Studies on the Origin of the Austronesian Cultures

open access: yes, 2003
在“南岛语族”起源研究中 ,语言学的实践多局限于今南岛语族族群分布范围 ,忽视了华南上古百越这一重要的古南岛系统文化。最近的民族考古学研究又将“原南岛语族”文化说成是闽台沿海新石器时代早期阶段的大坌坑文化和富国墩类型 ,与百越 -南岛一体化的民族文化格局和我国大陆东南到东南亚、太平洋群岛间土著民族考古文化的统一性不相吻合。将富国墩类型之后东南沿海新石器时代晚期的昙石山文化等说成是“南岛语族”文化的终结、“汉藏语族”文化的开端 ,更割裂了东南史前、上古土著民族文化发展的延续性In the studies ...
吴春明, 陈文
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Searching for the Ancient Linguistic Roots of the Common Law. Some Very Personal Considerations on the Osmosis Amongst Legal Cultures

open access: yes
The paper's approach to legal English is closely related to the discovery of the roots of the common law and the development of this extraordinary tradition in the English-speaking world and beyond. After illustrating the various cultural and linguistic influences on the emergence of the common law, the role of legal French in the formation of legal ...
openaire   +1 more source

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu   +2 more
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