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Machine Translation Of Fictional And Non-fictional Texts : An examination of Google Translate's accuracy on translation of fictional versus non-fictional texts.

open access: yes, 2014
This study focuses on and tries to identify areas where machine translation can be useful by examining translated fictional and non-fictional texts, and the extent to which these different text types are better or worse suited for machine translation ...
Salimi, Jonni
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Mundos imposibles: autoficción

open access: yesActio Nova, 2016
En este artículo se tratan de explicar la autoficción (que se produce en las obras literarias en las que el autor real experimenta sucesos ficticios, ya sean verosímiles o inverosímiles) como una ruptura de la lógica ficcional (metalepsis), con la ...
Alfonso Martín Jiménez
doaj  

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Construcciones focalizadoras y oralidad

open access: yesLexis, 2018
This paper addresses three Spanish focus constructions: clefts, the Det+N+ ser construction (e.g. la verdad es que...), and the lo+adj+ser construction (e.g. lo bueno es que...).
Liliana Ruiz Velasco D.
doaj  

Mapping genres: broadcaster and audience perceptions of makeover television

open access: yes, 2007
Like all television genres, “makeover television” is an imprecise category. By examining broadcaster definitions and audience perceptions of this popular programming phenomenon, we will map the genre within the context of recent changes in British ...
Dover, C., Hill, A.
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An analysis of persistent non-player characters in the first-person gaming genre 1998-2007: a case for the fusion of mechanics and diegetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper describes the results of an analysis of persistent non-player characters (PNPCs) in the first-person gaming genre 1998-2007. Assessing the role, function, gameplay significance and representational characteristics of these critical important ...
Pinchbeck, Dan, Dan Pinchbeck
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source

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