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Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current research on family business innovation tends to isolate individual tensions for analysis, while in reality, these tensions often arise in complex entanglements. To fill this research void, we focus on understanding how multiple tensions occur in the innovation process, how these tensions are entangled, and how they are managed. We turn
Elias Hadjielias +2 more
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Réalisation d’une enquête sur la pratique du breton
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1991 The situation of the Breton language has changed considerably in less than a century. Before the 1914-18 war, the majority of the population of Western Brittany, and of Finistère in particular, spoke only Breton.
Fañch Broudic
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National Identity and the Preference for State Opting-Out in the Basque Country [PDF]
We argue that preferences for secession are the expression of common unobserved factors determining national identity, and accordingly that identity matters.
Joan Costa Font, Ramon Tremosa Balcells
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Positive institutions for language learning
The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Positive psychology has been flourishing within applied linguistics, providing new insights into the role of concepts such as positive emotion, grit, and well‐being. The founders of positive psychology envisioned three pillars on which it stood, positive emotions, character traits, and positive institutions.
Peter D. MacIntyre
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Almanak Breiz-Izel (1872) : l’essai manqué d’un almanach républicain en breton
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2016 Publishing a republican almanac in Breton in 1872 seemed a priori a promising venture. First, the political context was conducive to the spread of republican ideas.
Fañch Postic, Nelly Blanchard
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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
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‘Ysworn… Withoute gilt:’ Lais of Illusion-Making Language in the Canterbury Tales
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 This essay argues that Chaucer’s interest in the Breton lay rests on the power of the genre’s association of magic and language. Examining the Wife of Bath’s Tale, a story that shares features with the Breton lay but is not marked as such, with the ...
Elizabeth Scala
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Temporal Passage in a Fragmented World
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fragmentalism is a relatively recent and striking addition to the debate between tensed and tenseless theories of time. First introduced by Fine in “Tense and Reality,” it presents a rare instance of both a theoretically intriguing and novel theory of time.
Kyley Ewing
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Parité et disparité : sphère publique et sphère privée de la parole
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1996 This paper opened the “Badume-Standard-Norme” conference which took place in Brest (June 2-4, 1994). The authors of this paper explain why they decided to organise this conference: to confront the theories they have developed while studying the Breton ...
Jean Le Dû, Yves Le Berre
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