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Ethnic Diversity in Compulsory Schooling and Occupational Choices: Can Diversity Increase the Supply in Care‐Oriented Occupations

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of ethnic diversity on occupational choices, particularly in care‐oriented occupations which are scarce in many high‐income countries. We use administrative data of all students in Switzerland to study two diversity dimensions: ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization.
Damiano Pregaldini, Simone Balestra, Uschi Backes‐Gellner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Dictionary of Semantic Equivalents in Polish, Bulgarian and Russian"

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2016
On the Dictionary of Semantic Equivalents in Polish, Bulgarian and Russian Leksykon odpowiedniości semantycznych w języku polskim, bułgarskim i rosyjskim [The Dictionary of Semantic Equivalents in Polish, Bulgarian and Russian] is the first Polish ...
Wojciech Paweł Sosnowski, Violetta Koseska-Toszewa, Anna Kisiel   +2 more
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Wrestling Voices: Amplifying Patriotism and Ethnic Stereotypes in 1980s American Professional Wrestling

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
wiley   +1 more source

Polsko-litewskie badania konfrontatywne Zespołu Semantyki Instytutu Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015
Polish-Lithuanian contrastive studies conducted by the Department of Semantics of the Institute of Slavic Studies of The Polish Academy of Science The dissertation discusses the research area of the Lithuanian-Polish theoretical contrastive studies ...
Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko
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Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz, Petar Milin, Dagmar Divjak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Anthroponyms and Toponyms in the Memorial Inscriptions at Cemeteries of National Minorities in Northern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Вопросы ономастики
The article examines the anthroponyms and toponyms found on gravestone inscriptions at cemeteries in the areas of concentrated settlement of national minorities in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina — namely, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, and Italians.
Gleb Petrovich Pilipenko, Sergej Aleksandrovich Borisov   +1 more
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Differences in the formalization of the semantic category of definiteness / indefiniteness

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015
Differences in the formalization of the semantic category of definiteness / indefiniteness Basing on theoretical contrastive studies guidelines, the article defines the semantic category of definiteness/indefiniteness where two basic opposition ...
Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko
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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

A net presentation of Lithuanian sentences containing verbal forms with the grammatical suffix -dav-

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2014
A net presentation of Lithuanian sentences containing verbal forms with the grammatical suffix -dav- In the article the authors make an attempt to present the meaning of Lithuanian sentences containing verbal forms with the grammatical suffix -dav ...
Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko
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