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Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Die Funktionsverbgefüge und der deutsch-tschechische Sprachvergleich
The paper is a contribution to an ongoing discussion on the status of the verb-nominal constructions (Funktionsverbgefüge/FVG) and their use in professionally oriented texts. The paper seeks to attempt to view the issue from the multi-lingual perspective
Karel Frank, Renata Šilhánová
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Creativity as Queer Praxis: History, Pedagogy and Academic Assessment
Abstract This article draws upon insights from queer pedagogy to explore the ways that creative assessments can be used to disrupt rather than reproduce existing power structures within the academy. Queer pedagogy challenges essentialist categories, centres questions of subjectivity and addresses how knowledge is socially produced.
SAM CASLIN
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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English Adjectives and Estonian Nouns: Looking for Agreement? [PDF]
Daria Bahtina, Helin Kask, Anna Verschik
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Text mining for case report articles on “peritoneal dialysis” from PubMed database
Abstract Introduction The number of published medical articles on peritoneal dialysis (PD) has been increasing, and efficiently selecting information from numerous articles can be difficult. In this study, we examined whether artificial intelligence (AI) text mining can be a good support for efficiently collecting PD information.
Kazuhiko Fukushima +6 more
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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