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Audiovisual Translation of Persian Humour on Social Media
Using a blend of methods including existing subtitling models in Audiovisual Translation (AVT), Functionalism in Translation Studies, the General Theory of Verbal Humour, Cultural Linguistics (CuL) and careful analysis of numerous examples of Persian humour on social media, i.e.
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Riding's (1991) wholist-analytic dimension of cognitive style proposes a unidimensional view of global-analytic constructs, however, very little empirical evidence exists in support of a relationship between the styles in the wholist-analytic family ...
Davies, Joanne, Davies, Jo
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Millennials' Hybrid Consumer Identities: Balancing Consumer Ethnocentrism
ABSTRACT While consumer ethnocentrism has been widely examined, little is known about how consumers manage the persistent gap between ethnocentric attitudes and everyday purchasing behavior. Drawing on balance theory (Heider 1958), this study conceptualizes consumer ethnocentrism as a situationally activated balancing process rather than a stable ...
Barbora Vaculová, Clarinda Jansberg
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Revisiting the social and religious value of humour
The aim of the article is to revisit and reintroduce the social and religious significance of humour. The chapter will examine humour as a complex human action by focusing on the function thereof in everyday life. The discussion will be informed by examples of the value of humour for physical and mental health, politics and religion.
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Le phénomène migratoire constitue non seulement une préoccupation sociale, politique et économique majeure, mais également un défi didactique. Il suppose de prendre à bras le corps la question de la langue comme un moyen d'autoréalisation des personnes ...
Ouedraogo, Wendingoudi Émile
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ABSTRACT How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority SLBs engage in active representation, this study ...
Sohad Amaria, Einat Lavee, Nissim Cohen
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Chasing the "Big-Time" : football apprenticeship in the 1990s [PDF]
This qualitative study of Youth Training (YT) is centred specifically around the experiences of trainee professional footballers. Presenting a case-study analysis of one professional English Football League club, it utilizes those methods of ...
Parker, Andrew
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Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress
Abstract We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective ...
Ian Alcock +5 more
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Control, identity and meaning in voluntary work : the case of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution [PDF]
Organization studies, including studies of control and identity, has to date been almost exclusively concerned with organizations where work is paid for. By contrast, this thesis considers the dynamics of control and identity when work is unpaid, through
O'Toole, Michelle
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Currently there are few patient‐reported outcome measures for inducible laryngeal obstruction which characterise the multidimensional impact of the disease. The Delphi survey identified which items were important to include from a patient and health care professional perspective.
Siobhan Ludlow +3 more
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