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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

Nuwe Woordeboek sonder Grense: A Typological and Communicative Bridge

open access: yesLexikos, 2011
<p>ABSTRACT: Within the South African lexicographical context, there have been several pleas for Afrikaans learner's and school dictionaries that incorporate innovative strategies and provide for specific identified target users and their ...
Mariza Steyn, Liezl Gouws
doaj   +1 more source

TYPOLOGY OF DICTIONARIES: ON THE EXAMPLE OF DICTIONARIES CREATED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF GERMAN AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

open access: yes, 2020
The role of dictionaries in teaching and learning foreign languages is invaluable. Because with their help we will be able to learn what we do not even know independently, and strengthen what we know. For this reason, in recent years, the field of lexicography of linguistics has further developed, which can be seen in the example of created ...
openaire   +1 more source

Scrunch, growze, or chobble?: investigating regional variation in sound symbolism in the Survey of English Dialects

open access: yes, 2012
This paper draws on data extracted from Upton et al.’s (1994) Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar in investigating the regional distribution across England of sound symbolic phonesthemes, that is, word-initial consonant clusters which ...
Wright, D
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
wiley   +1 more source

What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
wiley   +1 more source

Filling gaps in dictionary typologies

open access: yes, 2015
The knowledge of the Portuguese lexicon has still many shortcomings. Some of them are well acknowledged; many other are quite unsuspected. Along the 20th century, Portuguese lexicography lost track of the ongoing research on word diachrony, morphological analysis and lexical semantics, unlike what happened with the lexicographic treatment of other ...
Villalva, Alina, Silvestre, João Paulo
openaire   +1 more source

Challenges of E-Learning Management Within the Croatian Higher Education System [PDF]

open access: yes
For the past few years, e-learning has become synonymous with different learning and teaching techniques based on information and communication technologies.
Darko Dukic
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Survey on Visualization of Information Diffusion over Networks

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Information Diffusion (ID) describes how a value (e.g., a pathogen, a rumor, a packet) spreads through an underlying “medium” network of elements (e.g., a social or computer network). Understanding the information diffusion process is essential to predicting trends, controlling misinformation, and enhancing decision‐making as well as ...
T. Baumgartl   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anglicism in the press of Santiago de Cuba city

open access: yesSantiago, 2017
The preliminary findings from an unfinished investigation having a synchronic approach are presented. The objective of this study is to analyze the English loanwords that appear in the press of Santiago de Cuba city at the beginning of the XX century ...
Yusnel Tabares-Tabares   +1 more
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