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Teaching Japanese Pragmatic Competence Using Film Clips

L2 Journal, 2011
Taking three common pragmatic errors by intermediate students of Japanese as a starting point, namely, overuse of the 1st person pronoun watashi, and incorrect use of hearsay markers and sentence final particles, this paper develops a strategy for ...
Wakae Kambara
doaj  

Unfair Consequences: How the Reforms to the Rule Against Hearsay in the Criminal Justice Act 2003 Violate a Defendant’s Right to a Fair Trial Under the European Convention on Human Rights [PDF]

, 2005
For years, judges and legislatures in common-law jurisdictions have struggled to develop effective and equitable rules regarding the admissibility of hearsay statements.
Mulcahy, Conor
core  

Lost in Evaluation: The Intricacies of First‐ and Second‐Order Evaluations in Auditors' Promotion Committees in the Big 4 Audit Firms

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The evaluation of auditors in the Big 4 audit firms has largely remained a “black box” in accounting and audit research. Little is known about how these processes operate within audit firms or how they relate to promotion decisions. This study addresses this gap by providing direct insight into promotion committee decision‐making.
Claire Garnier, Sébastien Stenger, Thomas Roulet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Truth, Doubt and Hearsay in 17^th-Century Russian News Translations [PDF]

, 2019
Christine Watson
openalex   +1 more source

Investigating proxies for retail investor attention in financial markets

Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 521-550, March 2025.
Abstract Investor attention influences financial markets but “depends on where you search” (Ben‐Rephael et al., The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, 30, 3009). We explore various retail investor attention proxies and their correlations with company characteristics and market reactions.
Daniel Cahill, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, Lee A. Smales   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La testimonianza per sentito dire: percorso di una prova anomala fra credulitas, veritas e necessitas

Doctor Virtualis
La testimonianza per sentito dire, nonostante la sua evidente inadeguatezza a fornire conoscenze certe sui fatti avvenuti, viene utilizzata nei processi penali fin dall’Alto Medioevo. Il saggio ripercorre la riflessione della scienza giuridica medievale,
Alessandra Bassani
doaj   +1 more source

The Significance (If Any) For the Federal Criminal Justice System of Advances in Lie Detector Technology

, 2008
Against a backdrop of accelerating developments in the science of lie detection certain to reopen the debate on the reliability and therefore admissibility of lie detector evidence in the federal courts, this Article examines whether the prohibition on ...
Bellin, Jeffrey
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Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Confronting confrontation [PDF]

, 2010
The right to confront adverse witnesses has brought the English courts into conflict with the European Court of Human Rights. Drawing on confrontation doctrine in Europe and the United States, this paper argues that there is no convincing rationale for ...
Redmayne, Mike
core   +1 more source

Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
wiley   +1 more source