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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2019 The multifaceted and intermediary nature of lexical blending has been discussed from various theoretical perspectives in the last decades [Kubozono 1990; Kelly 1998; Dressler 2000; Kemmer 2003; Gries 2006; Fandrych 2008].
Daniel Kjellander
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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Slab–column connections are vulnerable to punching shear, particularly when flexural cracking reduces the effective depth. This study proposes a sustainable dual‐strengthening system to enhance punching resistance and combined flexural–punching performance.
Ahmed Hamoda +3 more
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Hitchcock's Undertexts: Objects and Language
Film-Philosophy, 2023 This article explores the way in which the generative capacity of language inflects objects and props in several films by Alfred Hitchcock, focusing in particular on Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951).
Brigitte Peucker
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how a top‐down English medium instruction (EMI) decision changed a language teacher's status and participation in faculty governance in a graduate engineering school at a national university in Japan. Using a longitudinal single‐case design, the study follows one language teacher across the period from policy announcement
Ikuya Aizawa, Yuka Akiyama
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The Translation of English and Chinese Puns from the Perspective of Relevance Theory
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2010 This paper attempts to provide a relevance-theoretic account for the translation of puns between English and Chinese. The rich cultural connotations behind puns and the distinctive features of the puns’ form, sound and meanings pose great challenges to ...
He Jing
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Ludic language : the case of the punning echoic allusion
, 2011 This paper is concerned with punning echoic allusion. First, a distinction is drawn between common parlance senses of allusion (vague reference) and the literary idea of echoic allusion (cryptic quotation).
P. Lennon
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“Does EMI Improve Students' English?” and Other Unanswerable Questions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Questions about EMI often begin from an apparently straightforward premise—does EMI improve students' English? This article argues that the question itself is the source of the main analytic problem. Using EMI as an exemplar of a wider problem in applied linguistics, we show why binary claims about language gain travel poorly across contexts ...
Timothy Hampson +2 more
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The development of Belarusian lakes during the Late Glacial and Holocene [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2010 . Sediment cores from six lakes in northern, central, and southern Belarus were eõamined to establish correlationsbetween changes in lake conditions and catchment evolution since the Older Dryas.
Novik, Aliaksei +2 more
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