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Synonymic Syntagms and Utterances as Phenomenologically Reconstructed Discourse Innovations (on the material of modern French fiction)

open access: yesПсихолінгвістика, 2019
The phenomenon of syntactic synonymy in mono- and polypredicative utterances of modern French fiction prose is considered in this article from the standpoint of phenomenology.
Anastasiia Lepetiukha
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Re/Writing the Orient: Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, the Thousand and One Nights, and the Hundred and One Nights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Canto XXIII marks a tragicomic turning point in the Orlando Furioso, as the tension sustaining the titular character’s epic stoicism and romantic chivalry falls away to reveal a maniacal anti-hero.
Batarseh, Amanda
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic
Francisco Marcos-Marin
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Onomatopoeias as iconic symbols in the lyrics of R. M. Rilk

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Іноземна філологія. Методика викладання іноземних мов
The article presents the concept of creative iconicity of a poetic text based on the analysis of onomatopoeias as iconic symbols in R. M. Rilke’s lyrics.
Liliia Bezugla
doaj   +1 more source

Social Functions of the Medieval Epic in the Romance Literatures [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
Joseph J. Duggan, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, has made many important contributions to the study of medieval texts with roots in oral tradition, perhaps most notably The Song of Roland ...
Duggan, Joseph J.
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Barriers to the Adoption of Circular Economy Business Models in the Indian Textile Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indian textile industry has significant negative impacts on the environment. This industry needs to adopt a circular economy approach to become more sustainable; however, progress on this has been limited. In this study, we report on the barriers to adoption of Circular Economy Business Models (CEBMs) in the Indian textile industry.
Himanshu Chandra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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