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EPISTEMIC MODALITY: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF EPISTEMIC MARKERS IN EU AND POLISH JUDGMENTS

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019
The aim of this paper is to establish the repertoire and distribution of verbal and adverbial exponents of epistemic modality in English- and Polish-language judgments passed by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and non-translated judgments passed ...
Dariusz KOŹBIAŁ
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Technopolitical Energy Governance as Administrative Closure: Digitalisation and the Depoliticisation of Energy Politics in Iran and Saudi Arabia

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digitalisation is widely framed as a route to more efficient and participatory public administration. In authoritarian settings, however, digital governance often works less as administrative improvement than as a technopolitical instrument for managing dissent and insulating policy from contestation.
Arash Beidollahkhani
wiley   +1 more source

Hands‐on and Minds‐on? Findings on the Instructional Support of Preschool Teachers to Foster Children's Understanding of Scientific Practices

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To participate effectively in modern society, it is essential to have both knowledge of scientific concepts and an understanding of scientific practices. Children develop initial knowledge and skills to engage in scientific practices, such as identifying patterns, long before entering school.
Ada Cecil Haen, Henrik Saalbach, Ilonca Hardy, Miriam Leuchter, Mirjam Steffensky   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education for Problems of Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cynefin framework for decision‐making categorizes problem environments into simple (known knowns), complicated (known unknowns), complex (unknown unknowns), and chaotic (unknowables). Simple and complicated problem environments enable best and good solutions, but complex and chaotic problem environments require emergent and novel solutions.
Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen Participation and Transport Sustainability: A Novel Fuzzy ZE‐AHP and Fuzzy ZE‐MABAC Model, Evidence From Dublin, Ireland

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategic citizen engagement is fundamental to the socio‐technical transition toward sustainable urban mobility. This study investigates the integration of digital participatory tools within the transport planning framework of Dublin, Ireland, to facilitate inclusive, transparent, and equitable governance.
Sarbast Moslem, Brian Caulfield
wiley   +1 more source

WEAK EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN THE UK PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE [PDF]

Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2014
Discourse strategies of boosting and downtoning seem to play a paramount role in political discourse – persuading the electorate and defending one own’s position when ‘attacked’ liken the political battle to an actual war battle, whereby going on ...
Milica Vukovic
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Epistemic Modals in Context

, 2005
Abstract In the 1970s David Lewis argued for a contextualist treatment of modals (Lewis, 1976, 1979a). Although Lewis was primarily interested in modals connected with freedom and metaphysical possibility, his arguments for contextualism could easily be taken to support contextualism about epistemic modals.
Egan, Andy, Hawthorne, John, Weatherson, Brian   +2 more
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Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
wiley   +1 more source

From Algorithms to Ecosystems: Conceptual Links Between Artificial Intelligence and Biological Control

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing convergence between artificial intelligence (AI) and biological sciences has revealed important conceptual parallels between computational systems and ecological processes. This study proposes a systems‐based framework to move beyond purely metaphorical comparisons by distinguishing three analytical levels of correspondence between
João Marcos Rodrigues dos Santos
wiley   +1 more source

Il congiuntivo nell’italiano scritto e parlato [PDF]

Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2015
The article deals with the usage of the subjunctive in contemporary Italian against the background of the grammatical rules that determine its usage in standard Italian.
Klímová Eva
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