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Sharpening our understanding of saber‐tooth biomechanics

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Saber‐teeth are a striking example of convergent evolution in vertebrate predators, having evolved multiple times in mammals and their early ancestors. While there is broad consensus that saber‐toothed taxa employed a distinct biting strategy compared to conical‐toothed carnivores, like the lion, the precise mechanics and variability of this ...
Tahlia Pollock, Philip S. L. Anderson
wiley   +1 more source

A buen entendedor, pocas palabras bastan: histórico cultural e interfaces linguísticas de expressões idiomáticas e provérbios do espanhol para o português

open access: yesTradTerm, 2015
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal apresentar um estudo sobre expressões idiomáticas e provérbios na língua espanhola, com especial ênfase nas origens e no percurso cultural das expressões idiomáticas. Além disto, são analisadas algumas das
Márcia Marques Marinho Castro
doaj  

Língua e discurso em Flusser e Foucault: um diálogo à espreita?

open access: yesIntexto, 2020
Este ensaio, de caráter heurístico, propõe uma aproximação conceitual entre Flusser e Foucault, particularmente entre o primeiro livro de Flusser e a chamada fase arqueológica de Foucault.
Marcos N. Beccari
doaj   +1 more source

Mother-tongue education in a multilingual township: Possibilities for recognising lok’shin lingua in South Africa

open access: yesReading & Writing, 2019
Background: Mother-tongue education in South African primary schools remains a challenge to policymakers. The situation is problematic in multilingual lok’shin (township) schools where the lok’shin lingua is not recognised as ‘standard’ language.
Rockie Sibanda
semanticscholar   +1 more source

António Vieira e John C. Branner – A Morfologia Revisitada. Gramáticas Antigas de Português Língua Estrangeira [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Esta comunicação insere-se no desenvolvimento de um projeto do Centro de Estudos em Letras – Universidade de Évora, intitulado “Para a história da gramática e do ensino do Português como língua estrangeira (séculos XVII-XX)”. Está em curso o estudo de um
Marçalo, Maria João Brôa Martins   +1 more
core  

The Tower of Babel in science communication on social media: An analysis of linguistic diversity in Twitter mentions of scientific publications

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract To unravel the linguistic dynamics of science communication on social media, this study presents a large‐scale, cross‐disciplinary analysis of language use in over 21 million Twitter mentions of 6.7 million scientific publications. While English dominates—accounting for 90.8% of all mentions and serving as a bridging language for the ...
Yanqing Zhang, Zhichao Fang
wiley   +1 more source

Políticas linguísticas e o ensino de língua portuguesa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Grande preocupaçao para o ensino de língua materna tem sido a questao dos estudos linguísticos, no que se refere à Política de Língua, cujas bases alicerçam-se nas discussoes sobre a identidade cultural, ideológica e linguística de um povo.
Barbosa Bastos, Neusa   +1 more
core  

Tense marking by Brazilian deaf signers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
TEMA: marcação de tempo realizada por surdos sinalizadores na Língua Brasileira de Sinais e na Língua Portuguesa Escrita. OBJETIVOS: analisar a flexão verbal de tempo na Língua Portuguesa Escrita, averiguar se existe relação entre o desempenho no uso da ...
CRATO, Aline Nascimento   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Permanent school exclusions continue to be a topic of keen interest to UK schools and policymakers. The debate over the practice has recently intensified owing to the perceived negative outcomes directly resulting from the exclusion event. Research has indeed shown that pupils who have been permanently excluded are at a greater risk for a ...
Stephen Hills   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

So You Think You Can ELF: English as a Lingua Franca as the Medium of Instruction

open access: yes, 2017
This paper reports the findings of a study on spoken English as a lingua franca (ELF) in Swedish higher education. The aim has been to investigate the role pragmatic strategies play in content lectures where English is a lingua franca, i.e.
Beyza Björkman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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