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Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century WritingsIn recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equipped with speech recognition, movable feet, and ...
Tyne Daile Sumner
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Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Matsuo Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi
Coolabah, 2017 This paper investigates Australian author Richard Flanagan’s novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and attempts to clarify the reason why Flanagan chose this title, which is linked to the travel writings of the Japanese author Matsuo Basho, for his ...
Yasue Arimitsu
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Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Understanding foreign speech is difficult, in part because of unusual mappings between sounds and words. It is known that listeners in their native language can use lexical knowledge (about how words ought to sound) to learn how to interpret unusual ...
Holger Mitterer, James M McQueen
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Despite well‐described biologic causes, the public views unhealthy lifestyle choices as the primary cause of gout. This study investigated how causal beliefs about gout influence the public's views about its management. Methods In a randomized study, 201 members of the public viewed one of two 2‐minute videos about gout.
Rachel Murdoch +6 more
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Names for Weather Disasters in Australia
Вопросы ономастикиDespite the importance of weather disasters, the names that people give them have been little treated in scholarship, both from an Australian perspective and from that of other parts of the world. This article explores patterns in the naming of bushfires
Helen Bromhead
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Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016 The article studies word formation of the derogatory marked ethnonyms (DME) of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English Language. DME are classified according to the method of word formation, the type of semantic transfer and deliberate phonetic ...
Tsebrovskaya Tatyana Alexandrovna
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Folklinguistics and social meaning in Australian English.
, 2019 Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society.
Penry Williams, Cara
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To explore whether higher body fat and lower lean mass are associated with greater pain and worse patient‐reported physical function in individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA). A secondary aim was to examine whether pain and patient‐reported physical function differ according to four body composition profiles: high body fat, low lean mass ...
Alexandra Ryan +10 more
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Australian Mythical Landscape and the Desire of Non-English-speaking Immigrants
Landscape Review, 2017 Through their frequent visits to public green spaces in cities with white majority cultures, non-English-speaking immigrants draw attention to the way people from different cultural backgrounds perceive and use these spaces.
Nasim Yazdani, Mirjana Lozanovska
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Australian Candidate Study, 2007
, 2019 The 2007 Australian Candidate Study is the eighth in a series of election studies on federal election candidates. In 2007, candidates from the following parties were surveyed - Australian Labor Party, Liberal Party of Australia, National Party of ...
McAllister, Ian +2 more
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