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New taxonomic proposal for Chinese phraseology

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2019
Over the years, the taxonomy of Chinese phraseology has been controversial. One of the main challenges for research in the field of phraseology is to discover how to classify all of the phraseological units in a logical and objective way.
Lei Chunyi 雷春仪
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Ideational metaphor in exposition texts in an EFL textbook and its pedagogical significance

Studies in English Language and Education
Analytical exposition texts feature causal relationships and nominalization, which can be explored through a grammatical metaphor framework. Despite numerous studies on analytical exposition texts and grammatical metaphors, research on grammatical ...
M. Ibnu Mustofa, Gin Gin Gustine
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study

Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The aim of this study was to explore the use of nominalizations in segmented abstracts, examining their distribution and characteristics and whether they differ from traditional non-segmented abstracts in terms of the use of nominalizations.
Yuan Yuwei
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Somatic Terms of the Buryat Language as Loci

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2022
The article deals with the development of locus meanings in the somatic terms of the Buryat language. Anatomical terminology refers to the basic, most ancient part of the vocabulary in all languages.
Victoriya I. Semenova
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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Structural Realization and Functionality of Grammatical Metaphor in Nollywood Films

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature
Metaphor is a semantic shift in language use, either in form or function. A metaphorical expression has various realisations through its interpretation. Grammatical metaphor is a concept in Halliday’s systemic functional theory (SFT).
Eniayo Sobola, Babatunji Hezekiah Adepoju   +1 more
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SYNAMET - A Microcorpus of Synesthetic Metaphors. Preliminary Premises of the Description of Metaphor in Discourse

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2016
SYNAMET - A Microcorpus of Synesthetic Metaphors. Preliminary Premises of the Description of Metaphor in Discourse This article describes the preliminary premises of metaphor annotation in SYNAMET - the developing microcorpus of synesthetic metaphors ...
Magdalena Anna Zawisławska
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