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A Categorical Framework for Quantum Theory

open access: yes, 2009
Underlying any theory of physics is a layer of conceptual frames. They connect the mathematical structures used in theoretical models with physical phenomena, but they also constitute our fundamental assumptions about reality.
Aharonov   +27 more
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 342-363, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
wiley   +1 more source

New public financial management in liberal peacebuilding discourse: The Palestine–Israel conflict and the World Bank

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 549-572, November 2024.
Abstract This paper delves into the discursive recontextualization of new public financial management (NPFM) in the context of peacebuilding, reshaping the dynamics among the donor community, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. Utilizing Fairclough's dialectical relational version of Critical Discourse Analysis (2003, 2013) as a methodological ...
Dalia Alazzeh, Shahzad Uddin
wiley   +1 more source

The unsaid in Corazón de Kaláshnikov by Alejandro Paéz Valenzuela. Characters, causalities, parataxis.

open access: yesLiteratura Mexicana, 2015
A stylistic analysis of Corazón de Kaláshnikov (2009) by AlejandroPáez Varela highlights that the novel is extremely elliptic: the focalization of thecharacters is external, the causal relations are implicit and the style is very muchparatactic.
Kristine Vanden Berghe
doaj   +1 more source

'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
core   +1 more source

(From) A to B (and back) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
‘(From) A to B (and back)’ is an article published in Printed Project (issue 13, July 2010). The issue theme was ‘Virtual Fictional’ and O’Riley’s contribution is a reflection on narrative, reading, uncertainty and de-familiarization, and how these ideas
O'Riley, Tim
core  

A Contrastive Study of Potential and Practical Errors in On-line Translation Due to Linguistic Differences in Chinese, English and Japanese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Nowadays, some students in China often use on-line translators when they have to write papers, especially the abstract in English or in Japanese. However, the morphological and syntactic differences in Chinese, English and Japanese frequently lead to ...
Jiang, Fan, Seta, Yukito
core   +1 more source

“Assim, como estas, muitas outras questões interessantes e de actualidade ficarão pairando na dúvida”: uma análise de assim como no domínio da junção

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013
Based on Halliday (1985) and Raible (1992, 2001), this paper argues that the´interpropositional patterns of assim are distributed in continuum, set within the representative usages of different types of interdependency, from examples of dominant ...
Lúcia R. Lopes-Damasio
doaj   +1 more source

Poetry and diplomacy: Telling it slant [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture, 2018
The study looks at some defining similarities and differences between poetry and diplomacy. It shows that both pursuits make extensive use of underspecification and illustrates how each deploys a variety of shared tropes, from ambiguity to metaphor ...
Biljana Scott
doaj   +1 more source

Alexander Payne's Nebraska and the return of the grand narratives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article analyses Alexander Payne’s film Nebraska from the perspective of the paradigm shift produced after the much-debated passing of postmodernism, announced by theorists such as Ihab Hassan or Linda Hutcheon.
Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
core   +3 more sources

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