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‘Hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ’: On verb attraction in Old English
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016 This paper deals with a phenomenon in Old English syntax labelled ‘verb attraction’. In an Old English clause with two verbs, such as an auxiliary verb and the following nonfinite verb, or an object-control verb such as hatan ‘to command’ plus the ...
Nils-Lennart Johannesson
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris +2 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the needs of young people affected by sexual exploitation, alongside other forms of extra‐familial harm, remains a challenge for social workers, youth workers and other professionals responsible for their safety and well‐being. This paper proposes that to more effectively create safety with/for young people, we must re‐examine how we ...
Kristine Langhoff +2 more
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Dialectal and/or Archaic Words in the Translation of Poetry [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: PhilologicaIn this study, we aim to explore different translation methods in the field of poetry translation. We focus on specific linguistic units of the Csángó dialect as they appear in the poetry of a Csángó poet, Demeter Lakatos. We will present some aspects of
Imola Katalin NAGY
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, children and youth (‘young people’) have been increasingly conceptualised as moral agents with rights and capacities to be meaningfully engaged in decisions affecting them. While evidence suggests that social spaces are opening to prioritise listening to these voices, gaps still exist.
Sydney Campbell +5 more
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Beowulf 1563a and Blissian Metrics
Revista Alicantina de Estudios InglesesA. J. Bliss, in his authoritative and influential monograph on The Metre of Beowulf (1967), analysed l. 1563a, hē ġefēng þā fetelhilt, as a member of his group (4) of verses beginning with finite verbs.
Rafael Pascual
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Una nuova edizione critica di Deor
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione LettereThe Old English poem Deor is preserved in ms Exeter, Cathedral Library 3501. Different editions of Deor have been published so far, the most authoritative being Malone’s edition (1977), and some passages of the text have been reanalysed, in a constant ...
Giuseppe De Bonis
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SELIMBook review of Tolkien, J. R. R. 2023. The Battle of Maldon Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth. Edited by Peter Grybauskas. London: Harper Collins. Pp. 188. ISBN 9780008465827.
Rafael J. Pascual
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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How Do I Measure up? Social Influence and L2 Motivation in the Algorithmic Age
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Comparative thinking is a fundamental human drive and a hallmark of contemporary life. For social action, such as the learning and use of additional languages, a target for appraisal (an L2 attribute) is evaluated in relation to a comparison standard (an appraiser's standpoint).
Alastair Henry, Meng Liu
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