The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán Roberts
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Building Resilience Through Symphony and Poetry for COVID-19-Encumbered Healthcare Workers: A Taiwanese Qualitative Study. [PDF]
Liu HY +4 more
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Writing as cognitive rehabilitation in MCI and dementia: a systematic review of therapeutic benefits and applications. [PDF]
Hajikarim-Hamedani A +3 more
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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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"Where it's okay if we die": Exploring Older Canadians' Perspective on Long-Term Care Through Found Poetry. [PDF]
Joanisse C +10 more
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Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric-gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry. [PDF]
Eising H +5 more
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Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Auditory imagery and poetry-elicited emotions: a study on the hard of hearing. [PDF]
Piţur S, Tufar I, Miu AC.
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