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Genealogy, 2018 Focusing on the verbal rather than the visual elements of early and more modern headstones in eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, this essay will comment on a selection of Gaelic headstone inscriptions, highlighting such elements as word choice (whether
Laurie Stanley-Blackwell +1 more
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Scottish StudiesThis article surveys points of similarity between the Scottish Gaelic spoken in Easter Ross – a distinct dialect area not covered by Børgstrom’s 1942 study of Skye and Ross-shire Gaelic – and the dialects of East Sutherland / Caithness, features of which
Seosamh Watson
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Folklore Reminiscences' of John Lorne Campbell
Scottish StudiesA leading Gaelic scholar and fieldworker of the twentieth century, the late John Lorne Campbell’s writings on traditional Gaelic song and his groundbreaking editions of the stories and reminiscences of islanders have become standard works.
Hugh Cheape
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‘The Disembowelled Horse’ A Place-Name Tale From Gaelic Oral Tradition
Scottish Studies, 2017 The recording of traditional information by the School of Scottish Studies, at least in the Gaelic speaking area, was at its height in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ian A. Fraser
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International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of corporate restructuring frameworks in England and Bhutan, examining their capacity to integrate climate variability considerations and promote sustainable business practices. It discusses the procedural mechanisms for restructuring financially distressed enterprises available under the law of
Eugenio Vaccari, Migmar Lham
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Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2011 The present article examines the folklore genre of maritime memorates of Irish and Scottish origin. It describes the maritime traditions of Gauls when various supernatural creatures and inanimate objects appeared from the sea, as well as the spells and ...
Maxim Fomin
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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The vowel /əː/ ao in Gaelic dialects
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2018 This paper examines the development of the Old Irish diphthongs */ai/, */oi/, */ui/ in later varieties of the Gaelic languages. These are generally accepted to have merged as a single phoneme by the end of the Old Irish period (c. 900).
Christopher Lewin
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Land and Water Pedagogy in TESOL: Centering Indigenous Knowledges
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The intersection of English Language Teaching (ELT), TESOL, and Indigenous knowledges is an important yet often neglected area of inquiry. This paper explores the importance of including Indigenous knowledges – specifically land and water pedagogies – in ELT, TESOL, and broader language education practices. Through duoethnographic inquiry, we –
Paul J. Meighan, Madoka Hammine
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Going Native: Long-Running Television Serials in the UK
Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2018 This article examines in detail the development of the long-running serial in the UK, from its beginnings on radio in the 1940s, through the move to television in the mid 1950s and then up to the present day.
Douglas Chalmers, Hugh O'Donell
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