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Vocabulary and Processing Speed Explain Reading and Writing Disparities Between Linguistic Groups in Higher Education

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
wiley   +1 more source

Ukrainian-Croatian Parallels on the Maps of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas

Hrvatski Dijalektološki Zbornik, 2009
A need to study possible connections between the Ukrainian and Croatian continua is brought about not only by the genetic relationship between these languages but also by discussions about an eastern Slavic element in the southern Slavic glottogenesis ...
Pavlo Yu. Hrytsenko
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial TEACHING Slavic Languages

DiSlaw
We are pleased to present the sixth issue of DiSlaw magazine, which this time is dedicated to ‘Teaching Slavic Languages’. After decades of learner orientation or learner-centredness and related concepts such as individualisation or learner autonomy ...
Michaela Winkler, Tatjana Vučajnk, Michaela Gindl   +2 more
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Słowiańskie ‘da’ i jego bałkańska specyfika

Slavia Meridionalis, 2018
The Slavic ‘da’ and its Balkan peculiarities The aim of this article is the analysis of the Slavic ‘da’, its derivates and distribution, from Proto-Slavic to modern Slavic languages, with particular emphasis on the Serbo-Croatian diasystem.
Maciej Mielnik
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Глаголи с елемента “си” / “sobie” в българския и в полския език

Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2017
Verbs with the Element „си” / „sobie” in Bulgarian and Polish Languages: The paper examines the phenomenon of reflexive personal pronouns for the dative case, used with verbs in several Slavic languages.
Savova, Dimka
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Partitivity in Slavic-Romance language contact: The case of Molise Slavic in Italy [PDF]

Linguistics, 2020
AbstractMolise Slavic is a south Slavic micro-language, spoken in three municipalities in the Italian region of Molise. It has been in a situation of total language contact with Romance varieties for about 500 years, with strong foreign influence on all linguistic levels.
openaire   +2 more sources

Explicit Tolerance and Implicit Exclusion: A Study on National Identity in Sweden

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While people in many Western countries report increasingly tolerant and inclusive attitudes, minorities continue to face considerable, and in some cases growing, discrimination and exclusion. In this paper, I propose that the gap may stem from a discrepancy between explicit attitudes and more automatic, implicit attitudes. Most people may want
Filip Olsson
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source