The choreography of longing: songs, screens and space in Carlos Saura’s 'Fados' [PDF]
, 2014 Carlos Saura’s 2007 film Fados follows the director’s earlier works Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998) by showing musicians performing a vernacular music genre while accompanied by dancers.
Elliott, Richard
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, 2014 Pena begins her composition with a definintion of her title Saudade, which describes her experience of being a missionary child in Brasil: From the Portuguese; saw•\u27dah•djee; an untranslatable word defined as “A vague, constant desire for something ...
Pena, Wesley D
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Out of the labyrinth? Television memories of revolution and return in contemporary Portugal [PDF]
, 2016 This essay examines Portuguese contemporary memories of the end of colonialism as represented in the 2013 television series, Depois do Adeus. It argues, first, that a popular series such as this can perform useful memory work in society, and, second ...
Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison
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Galileo's Revenge: ways of construing knowledge and translation strategies in the era of globalisation [PDF]
, 2007 Galileo’s fateful confrontation with the Holy Office in 1633 is often taken to mark the start of the Scientific Revolution, the moment when a whole new approach to knowledge began to take over the western world.
Bennett, Karen
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Predictability of sentences used in the assessment of speech intelligibility in dysarthria [PDF]
, 2011 PURPOSE: To analyze the predictability of sentences used in the protocol for the assessment of intelligibility of dysarthric speech. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 120 volunteers divided randomly into four groups of 30 individuals ...
Alexandre, Erika +2 more
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Leadership of portuguese community schools in the East Coast of the United States and the public policies of education: a multiple case studies [PDF]
, 2014 The Portuguese community schools of the United States located in the areas of larger Portuguese population concentration are social organizations that come materializing throughout decades the designs of the educative policies of the Portuguese ...
Bento, António Maria Veloso
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, 2021 Due to the sad times we are living in, I have chosen as a topic for my article "Longing and Saudade", the English and Portuguese words for the nostalgic yearning we feel when we lose a loved one.
Pires, Maria Laura Bettencourt
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Intelligibility: effects of transcription analysis and speech stimulus [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: intelligibility measures are limited to providing information on the severity level of clinical cases. A key limitation is that such measures are sensitive to changes in performance only in subjects with a determined severity level of speech ...
Barreto, Simone Dos Santos +1 more
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Critical Language Study and Translation: The Case of Academic Discourse [PDF]
, 2006 This chapter uses Critical Discourse Analysis to show the very different ideologies encoded into Portuguese and English academic discourse,arguing that translation from one to the other is virtually impossible within the genre of the academic ...
Bennett, Karen
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From Wim Wenders' Lisbon to Fatih Akin's Istanbul: Producing the Cool City in Film [PDF]
, 2015 This article analyses the idea of "cool" and its production in relation to cities and their representation in film. It focuses on Wim Wenders' 1995 film "Lisbon Story" and Fatih Akin's "Crossing the Bridge" (2005) and examines how they represent their ...
Koksal, O., Koksal, O.
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