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Fingalian topographies: Ossian and the Highland Tour 1760-1805 [PDF]

, 2016
If Ossian validated the Highland landscape for eighteenth-century tourists, the landscape, in turn, seemed to authenticate poems whose authenticity never ceased to be doubted; but text and topography alike ran the risk of dissolving into insubstantiality.
Leask, Nigel
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Are charitable donations a luxury good of the rich? Evidence from a survey and actual behavior in a superdiverse metropolis

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 5, Page 1505-1514, September 2024.
Abstract Objective Previous studies on charitable giving have emphasized the importance of socioeconomic status in explaining why individuals choose to donate or not to donate money. Other explanations, such as social capital or local contexts, have also been investigated, but these perspectives are rarely combined and tested against an actual ...
Jonas Elis, Sabrina Jasmin Mayer, Achim Goerres   +2 more
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Proper Names in the Poetry of Marina Slugina

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. In Finno-Ugric studies, there is a noticeable lack of research on literary onomastics, and the semantic functions of proper names within the structure of literary texts are insufficiently explored. The purpose of this article is to identify
Svetlana V. Sheyanova
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The Opie Recordings: What’s Left to be Heard? [PDF]

, 2013
This chapter presents an analysis of selected recordings from the Opie Collection of Children's Games in the National Sound Archive. It contextualises them with an account of the Opies' research approach, and identifies three themes emerging from the ...
Burn, Andrew, Jopson, Laura, Robinson, Jonathan   +2 more
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Functioning of space objects in the Crimeantatar language

Язык и текст, 2019
The subject of the analysis in the article are the words related to the names of space objects in the Crimean Tatar language. Cosmodome and astronomy are onomastic space, providing a unique layer of vocabulary of the Crimean Tatar language ...
L.S. Absemieva
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DYNAMICS OF DEVELOPMENT OF ONOMASTIC SPACE OF THE BRITISH AND RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE

Philology. Theory & Practice, 2019
The article discusses the semantics and etymology of spellonyms - nominations of wizards - that allows specifying the distinctive features of the fragments of the Russian and British fairy tale worldviews. According to the suggested classification, spellonyms are divided on the basis of the common and individual features of the nominated objects.
Viktoriya Vladimirovna Oshchepkova, Nataliya Vladimirovna Solov’eva   +1 more
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PRESERVING THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN THE RUSSIAN ONOMASTIC SPACE

Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin, 2020
The subject of analysis in this article is the ranks of proper names that have entered the onomastic space of Russia over the past 75 years, in which the memory of the heroes and events of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 has been preserved. The purpose of the work is to identify the specificity of onomastic units associated with the specified ...
Sergei A. Popov, Ksenia M. Gerasimova
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Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 511-528, April 2024.
Abstract Muslims in Europe and North America face high rates of discrimination and hostility. Less clear are the consequences of this prejudice on Muslims’ political attitudes. Leveraging a survey of 1,330 Muslims in Germany, we show that Muslims who have personally experienced discrimination exhibit higher anti‐system tendencies: more supportive of ...
Sharan Grewal, Shadi Hamid
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Names of Monasteries in the Novgorod Onomasticon

Вопросы ономастики, 2020
The paper analyzes a specific segment of the Novgorod onomasticon represented by the names of monasteries (ecclesionyms) and city names derived from them.
Tatyana V. Shmeleva
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