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Evaluation in media texts: a cross-cultural linguistic investigation [PDF]
, 2004 A quantitative/interpretative approach to the comparative linguistic analysis of media texts is proposed and applied to a contrastive analysis of texts from the English-language China Daily and the UK Times to look for evidence of differences in what ...
Chen, L.
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Penalty clauses in the Supreme Court: a legitimately interesting decision? [PDF]
, 2016 The joint appeals in Cavendish Square Holdings v El Makdessi and Beavis v ParkingEye 1 offered the UK Supreme Court its first opportunity – since moving across Parliament Square – to consider the penalty doctrine.
Lindsay, Bobby
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Functions of English vs. Other Languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist Rituals in the UK
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2015 This paper focuses on the functions of English versus other languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist rituals. The framework for this paper is based on a previous work on the language of Hindu rituals by Pandharipande (2012).
Manel HERAT
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Risk, human rights and the management of a serious sex offender [PDF]
, 2007 Risk and human rights discourses have become dominant features of the UK criminal justice arena. However, there has been little critical scrutiny of the ways in which these discourses relate to each other.
Whitty, Noel
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Introduction: Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change
Humanities, 2020 The development of the environmental humanities as an interdisciplinary formation is a response to an ecological and planetary crisis [...]
David Higgins +2 more
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Reducing cultural barriers via Internet courses [PDF]
, 2008 A web-based learning environment has been developed to support students from China who are studying in the UK and are confronted by many cultural barriers, which may impede their academic studies.The electronic environment incorporates a number of ...
Spencer, Kenneth A, Xing, Minjie
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Learning to Read Bilingually Modulates the Manifestations of Dyslexia in Adults [PDF]
, 2018 Published online: 28 Mar 2018According to the Grain Size Accommodation hypothesis (Lallier & Carreiras, 2017), learning to read in two languages differing in orthographic consistency leads to a cross-linguistic modulation of reading and spelling ...
Barr, Polly +4 more
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JRSM Open, 2018 Objective Major changes in the design and delivery of clinical academic training in the United Kingdom have occurred yet there has been little exploration of the perceptions of integrated clinic academic trainees or educators.
Ruth H Green +3 more
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Answering the West Lothian Question? A Critical Assessment of ‘English Votes for English Laws’ in the UK Parliament [PDF]
Parliamentary Affairs, 2018 In 2015, the UK House of Commons adopted new procedures known as ‘English Votes for English Laws’ (EVEL). This article evaluates whether EVEL has succeeded in answering the West Lothian Question, a constitutional anomaly arising from the asymmetrical character of governance in the UK. After outlining the historical background against which EVEL emerged
Daniel Gover, Michael Kenny
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Smooth Signals and Syntactic Change
Languages, 2021 A large body of recent work argues that considerations of information density predict various phenomena in linguistic planning and production. However, the usefulness of an information theoretic account for explaining diachronic phenomena has remained ...
Joel C. Wallenberg +3 more
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