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Communicative Identity in the Eighteenth Century; Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim's Epistolary Network and the Cult of Friendship

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2014
In recent years the field of ‘life writing’ has been shaped by critical approaches that have abandoned traditional notions of the singular, self-governing individual in favor of a multiple and processual concept of the subject which understands the self ...
Tobias Heinrich
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Toward a Conceptual Model of Academic Translation Competence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Different cultures have distinct conceptions of knowledge and ways of defining, generating and communicating knowledge. Therefore, multilingualism in academia has been shown to be instrumental in preserving the various systems of knowledge, equality of opportunity in science and enhancing the international competitiveness of scholars whose ...
Krisztina Károly
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperbolic geometry in the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert

open access: yes, 2014
The memoir Theorie der Parallellinien (1766) by Johann Heinrich Lambert is one of the founding texts of hyperbolic geometry, even though its author's aim was, like many of his pre-decessors', to prove that such a geometry does not exist. In fact, Lambert
Papadopoulos, Athanase   +1 more
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RECORDS THEORY

open access: yesInternational Journal of Modern Physics D, 2009
In quantum gravity, one seeks to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity. In attempting to do so, one comes across the "problem of time" impasse: the notion of time is conceptually different in each of these theories. In this paper, I consider the timeless records approach to resolving this.
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Identity, Politics and Power: Stories of Teaching Language in Quebec

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language teaching is an inherently political act, and in Québec it is inextricably tied to questions of cultural belonging and national identity. This study explores the experiences of English as a second language (ESL) teachers in French‐medium schools in Québec. Drawing on critical applied linguistics and identity theory, it examines how pre‐
Katherine Hardin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accented Epidermal Thinking: How Vocal Accent Reinforces the Visibility of Race

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This conceptual article introduces the notion of accented epidermal thinking, which refers to the ways in which the perception, voicing, and discussion of vocal accent all reinforce or accent the idea of race being a visual construct. The article explores how accented epidermal thinking manifests itself in three areas.
Vijay A. Ramjattan
wiley   +1 more source

Roy–Steiner equations for πN scattering

open access: yesEPJ Web of Conferences, 2014
In this talk, we present a coupled system of integral equations for the πN → πN (s-channel) and ππ → N̅N (t-channel) lowest partial waves, derived from Roy–Steiner equations for pion–nucleon scattering.
Ruiz de Elvira J.   +4 more
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Forum A.1: Nach der Theorie – ist vor der Theorie? : Statement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Dieser Text wurde verlesen als Statement auf dem Internationalen Colloquium "Perspektiven der Germanistik im 21. Jahrhundert", das vom 4. bis 6. April 2013 im Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover stattfand. Er bildete die Grundlage für eine Podiumsdiskussion
Beise, Arnd
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Decomposable theories

open access: yesTheory and Practice of Logic Programming, 2007
AbstractWe present in this paper a general algorithm for solving first-order formulas in particular theories called decomposable theories. First of all, using special quantifiers, we give a formal characterization of decomposable theories and show some of their properties.
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