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Solidarity with everyone? Intergroup helping and COVID‐19
Abstract This study investigates peoples' prosocial attitudes and real‐life prosocial behaviour towards different ethnic groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic, taking Germany as an empirical example. In a preregistered multi‐study design, we examined: (a) who receives help, (b) who helps and (c) what explains prosocial behaviour. In study 1, we conducted
Ruta Yemane +5 more
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Tambov ergonyms dating back to the word “wolf”
We are making an attempt to establish the producing base of Tambov ergonyms, including the phrase “Tambov wolf”. We establish that the ergonym nomination is based on the katoikonym “Tambov wolves”.
M. S. Dzyuba
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The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made
Abstract In the context of popular culture, the work of Lovecraft deserves a prominent role, not only for its influence on many later authors, but for its profound impact on 20th century popular culture, from music and video games to films, comics, and merchandising.
Jose Luis Arroyo‐Barrigüete
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Variable Forms of Naming in Literary Texts of Nikolay Gumilyov: Poetical and Semantic Aspect
The article deals with poetical and semantic aspects of the analysis of variable onym nominations in literary texts of an eminent Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov.
Kseniya S. Fedotova
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Abstract This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of
David Worthington
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THE ENDLESS ACCUMULATION OF HISTORY IN FINANCIAL TIMES
ABSTRACT This essay engages with Amin Samman's incisive 2019 text, History in Financial Times, which unfolds a philosophy of history for contemporary “financial times.” I turn first to Samman's concept of the strange loops of financial history, and so to the historical turn initiated by the subprime crisis of 2008.
C. N. Biltoft
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Traditions and innovations in constructing the anthroponymic space in stories by T.N. Tolstaya [PDF]
The article focuses on describing the functions performed by proper names and their role in the literary text, as well as on studying the traditional principles of developing the anthroponymic space in the stories by T.N.
Kuznetsova Tatyana B. +1 more
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Abstract This paper addresses a series of complex and unresolved issues in the historical phonology of West Iranian languages, (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and other languages), which display a high degree of irregular, non‐Lautgesetzlich behaviour.
Chundra A. Cathcart
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Onomatological analysis of the technonyms in the sphere of energetics (based on the Russian, English and Chinese languages) [PDF]
The article deals with the results of the onomatological analysis of the names of renewable energy facilities in the Russian, English and Chinese languages.
Kobenko, Yury Viktorovich +2 more
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