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Abstract We formulate the problem of material identification as a problem of optimal control in which the deformation of the specimen is the state variable and the unknown material law is the control variable. We assume that the material obeys finite elasticity and that the deformation of the specimen is in static equilibrium with prescribed boundary ...
Sergio Conti, Michael Ortiz
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Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education
Abstract This paper aims to unpack potential reasons why law and legal knowledge—despite its apparent importance and value in teaching and learning about human rights—appears to be largely conspicuous by its absence in human rights education (HRE) in schooling.
Suzanne Egan
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Le phénomène participatif est de plus en plus présent dans le discours public français. Cette institutionnalisation discursive de la participation s’appuie notamment sur le développement d’une rhétorique constitutionnelle déployée par le discours des ...
Chloé Petit
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"Nebelsprech" – Sprechen in der parlamentarischen Demokratie
"Fogspeech" is a variant of Orwellian Newspeak typical of parliamentary Democracy: As it is important in a Democracy to find vast support for political projects, linguistic strategies from advertising are used, esp.
Martin Haase
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Purism and antipurism in present-day Serbian [PDF]
As in other Balkan languages, Serbo-Croatian vocabulary is of mixed origin Ever since its earliest days, some of the commonest words were borrowed from Greek, Latin, Italian, Turkish, Hungarian, and in more recent times from Russian, Czech and German ...
Klajn Ivan
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Abstract This paper develops a novel conception of freedom of thought as the right to epistemic self‐realization. The recognition of this right is characterized here as a modally robust normative status that I think one has as a potential knower in an epistemic community. It is a status that one cannot enjoy without a specific form of institutionalized
Matthew Chrisman
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Abstract This article takes a magazine for Esperanto youth as an entryway to explore the links between language ideologies and censorial practices. During the Cold War, Esperanto print media sought a connection with the Third World to present Esperanto as an alternative to US‐led English and USSR‐led Russian.
Guilherme Fians
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Contemporary British Dystopia: Typological Features of the Genre in Ben Elton’s “Blind Faith”
This article undertakes a comprehensive examination of the generic and typological characteristics of Ben Elton’s “Blind Faith” (2007), situating the novel within the broader framework of contemporary British dystopian literature.
S. Kh. Abdullaeva +2 more
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Translating the French Revolution into English in A Tale of Two Cities
This article highlights what Dickens was trying to achieve in A Tale of Two Cities when he invented what Sylvère Monod called an “Anglo-French language” (Monod 429-31) composed of English words but borrowing syntactic forms from the French or translating
Nathalie Vanfasse
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PINOCCHIO FROM FLORENCE IN RUSSIAN BERLIN
The article deals with the story of Carlo Collodi’s “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, translated by Nina Petrovskaya and revised by Aleksey Tolstoy in Berlin at the time of their collaboration in the newspaper “Nakanune”.
Ирина Арзамасцева
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