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HUMBOLDT IN VENEZUELA AND CUBA: THE ‘SECOND SLAVERY’
German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 311-325, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The reception of Humboldt's work now spans more than 200 years. It began with the publication of the texts that form his Opus Americanum (1808–31). Among these works, it was in the Political Essay on Cuba, where a chapter was devoted to the demography of the slave trade from Africa to Cuba, that became a cornerstone of the global historical ...
Michael Zeuske
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‘BIG DATA’ AND ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT'S APPROACH TO SCIENCE
German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 394-415, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT This article departs from the hypothesis that Alexander von Humboldt used ‘Big Data’ in order to bring new scientific evidence into the open. His method of measuring and combining temperature, humidity, altitude and magnetism in a geographical environment must be regarded as innovative, indeed, as the foundation of modern science.
Daniel Grana‐Behrens
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 262-275, June 2020., 2020 Abstract In the history of scholarly practice, Voltaire stands out among eighteenth‐century authors for his critical attitude towards erudite reading habits. His contempt for the “compilateurs” is a radical expression of the Enlightenment desire to write free of the traditions and burdens of the past.
Vanessa de Senarclens
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El ‘don de la palabra’ y la ética de la comunicación de Ramón Campos Pérez
Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2014 Ramón Campos fue un autor muy influenciado por la corriente sensualista del pensamiento lingüístico francés, que había incluso llevado a sus extremos más radicales.
Gerda Hasler
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020 Adverbials with Adjectival Basis in Brazilian Portuguese and Their Frequency in Spoken and Written Language. The present paper focuses on the use of adverbs with an adjectival lexical base in spoken and written present-day Brazilian Portuguese.
Katharina GERHALTER, Stefan KOCH
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La madurez textual medieval de las lenguas romances
Revista de Poética Medieval, 2021 De manera metafórica, una lengua se puede considerar potencialmente madura si en la sociedad respectiva existen, por lo menos en estado latente, los fundamentos lingüísticos (léxicos.
Michael Metzeltin
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Territorio, moral y nación en los pupitres de la escuela. Olavo Bilac y Manoel Bomfim
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2007 El objetivo de los nacionalismos decimonónicos de formar un pueblo homogéneo, constituido por ciudadanos, pasó a ser una preocupación de la denominada generación brasileña de 1870, que tanto luchó por adaptar la civilización europea a la realidad ...
Enrique Rodrigues-Moura
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J'imagine comme verbe et marqueur pragmatique : une analyse diachronique [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 La présente étude aborde la pragmatique du marqueur déverbal j'imagine en appliquant les concepts de la grammaire de construction diachronique (voir Hilpert 2013 ; Traugott & Trousdale 2013 ; Barðdal & Gildea 2015 ; Lowrey 2018 : 152-154).
Schneider Stefan
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Literatura e Sociedade, 2018 Luiz Ruffato, nascido em 1961, é considerado um dos mais interessantes e multifacetados escritores brasileiros da atualidade, das primeiras décadas do século XXI.
Verena Dolle
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De l'utilité et de l'inconvénient des études (des avant-gardes) historique pour la "Romanistik" [PDF]
, 2017 Depuis longtemps, nous ne sommes plus dans la situation où l’Existentialisme ou le Nouveau Roman étaient tenus pour exemplaires et la période de la French Theory est aussi largement révolue.
Asholt, Wolfgang
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