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Contrastive relational markers in women’s expository writing in nineteenth-century English

Language Value, 2023
This study seeks to analyse the occurrence of contrastive relational markers in a corpus of recipes called Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English, the 19th century sub-corpus (COWITE19).
Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo
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Gold and Greater Britain: Jevons, Trollope, and Settler Colonialism [PDF]

, 2016
The Australian gold rushes of the 1850s provide an exemplary test case for exploring the impact of Greater Britain—the settler colonial empire—on the Victorian novel and political economy.
Philip Steer
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Figures of Argument (OSSA 2005 Keynote Address)

Informal Logic, 2004
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, scientists such as Kekule, Mendel, Lavoisier and Harvey argued for insights that depended critically on antithetical expressions and reasoning.
Jeanne Fahnestock
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The Development of Relational Reasoning in South Korean Elementary and Middle-School Students: A Cross-Sectional Investigation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Relational reasoning is a higher-order executive function that involves the ability to perceive meaningful patterns within a body of seemingly unrelated information.
Soo Eun Chae, Patricia A. Alexander
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BDSM – the antithesis of good Swedish sex?

Sexualities, 2018
In this article, based on ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews with 29 self-defined BDSM practitioners, I explore the incorporation process of BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism) in Swedish society.
Charlotta Carlström
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Darwin’s antithesis revisited – a zoosemiotic perspective on expressing emotions in animals and animal cartoon characters

Sign Systems Studies, 2019
In the animation and design of cartoon characters, animators have often turned to the study of biological theories and observation of human actors and animals to capture lifelike movements and emotions more successfully.
Jason Mario Dydynski, Nelly Mäekivi
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INTERPRETING THE RELIGIOUS MOTIVE OF THE HARROWING OF HELL IN W. LANGLAND’S “PIERS PLOWMAN” [PDF]

Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2019
The article researches into W. Langland’s poetic version of the motive popular in the medieval culture – Christ’s Harrowing of Hell, i.e. His descent into hell, triumph over it and bringing salvation to its captives.
Kseniia O. Vielchieva
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Inebriety of the soul: Aphoristica of passion (semantics, pragmatics, genre properties) [PDF]

Жанры речи
Based on the material of a corpus of short-format statements, the semantics and axiology of passion, as well as the discursive properties of aphorism, are studied.
Vorkachev, Sergey Grigorievich
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[Theoretical reflections regarding subjects of praxis and subjects of antithesis in Brazilian health reform].

Salud Colectiva, 2017
The Brazilian Health Reform has been recognized as a project that transcends the sectoral dimension in that it considers an expanded concept of health and social determination, which distinguishes it from other health system reforms of the twentieth ...
Jairnilson Silva Paim
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes, Diana Sousa, Siew Fung Lee   +2 more
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