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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Transfer in related Slavic languages

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Kształcenie Polonistyczne Cudzoziemców, 2020
In the field of teaching Polish as a foreign language, transfer plays a major role. Positive transfer helps the users of closely related Slavic languages learn more quickly, while negative transfer should be closely monitored.
Marta Pančíková, Alexander Horák
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Areal Clustering of the Slavic Phonetics

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2023
Areal Clustering of Slavic Phonetics The article succinctly discusses the most important phonetic features of Slavic languages and indicates their geographical distribution. It briefly presents an area-typological view of the contemporary phonetics of
Irena Sawicka
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

The contemporary Croatian standard language compared to contemporary East Slavic standard languages (vowel phoneme systems, graphics)

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2012
This article compares systems of vowel phonemes of contemporary standard Slavic languages – South Slavic Croatian and East Slavic: Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian, whereby it elaborates the relationship between contemporary vowel phonemes in these ...
Rajisa Trostinska, Milenko Popović
doaj  

Adjectival Names of Low Temperature in Slavic Languages

open access: yesStudia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej
The article is devoted to Slavic adjectives which belong to the semantic field of low temperature. The first part presents names from this field with definitions contained in monolingual dictionaries of Slavic languages.
Mariola Jakubowicz
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Herder and Modernity: From Lesser-Taught Languages to Lesser-Taught Cultures

open access: yesEast/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2017
The typical North American curriculum of a lesser-taught Slavic language implicitly relies on the legacy of Johann Gottfried von Herder’s interpretation that language in and of itself contains national (ethnic) culture.
Martin Votruba
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives of South-Slavic languages teaching in the context of the current language policy of the European Union

open access: yesOpera slavica, 2014
The process of European integration, which is in the region of the former Yugoslavia at the beginning, is one of the greatest attributes of contemporary social changes.
Miroslav Kouba
doaj  

Egitura kausatiboak euskaran, eslaboan eta erromantzean: konparaketa tipologiko baterantz

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008
This article follows the wake of the author's previous articles regarding framework (typology) and study languages (Slavic, Romance and Basque), although on this occasion, the subject of relative clauses gives way to one of equal fascination ...
Karlos Cid Abasolo
doaj   +1 more source

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