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Abstract Literary texts are already written before they get read, and they are therefore not subject to chance in the same way as encounters in everyday life. However, at the same time, these texts often manage to evoke a ...
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The present corpus study, which is grounded in Appraisal Theory, investigates evaluative language use in fake news in English. The primary aim is to find out how and why, if at all, evaluative meanings are construed ...
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This paper develops the notion of metonymy scenarios by exploring the social and cognitive dimensions of various creative uses of metonymy in a collection of digital banners created for the Global Climate Strike movement. ...
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In this article, we develop a framework for the analysis of ‘movement’ in literary texts. We focus on characters, translation and transmission, thereby going beyond, on the one hand, a stylistic analysis of individual ...
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The fact that there are (at least) two different translations of the English preposition for used to describe duration in Portuguese, namely durante and por, shows that duration is an interesting area in the tense and ...
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How does one describe a crucial moment, a moment that calls for action? What kinds of time are opened, disclosed, or foreclosed in such moments? This section explores a concept that has a long history in rhetoric and ...
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This study focuses on the seemingly simple grammatical category of adjectives. However, the framework adopted for analysing adjectives from both a cross-linguistic and a cross-register perspective highlights ...
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In this article, we discuss expertise by considering the activity of reading. Cognitive scientists have traditionally conceptualised reading as a single, well-defined task, namely the decoding of letter sequences into ...
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While literature is often used as a source of examples and illustrations across disciplines, literary studies tends to be underrepresented in interdisciplinary exchanges. Perhaps the reason lies in a lack of understanding ...
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This study investigates all-cleft constructions in the London–Lund Corpora of spoken British English. It has two aims: an empirical and a methodological one. The empirical aim is to contribute to research on spoken discourse ...
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This chapter discusses one of the master concepts in the Western classical tradition, kairos (“the opportune moment”), and interrogates its function in a poem dating from the Long Reformation, a period that thrived on ...
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Both kairos and human time perception are inextricably bound up with the present, which – as Saint Augustine commented – is scattered into tiny fragments. Kairos may well be the temporal concept we need for productively ...
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Focussing on a passage from Heart of Darkness, this chapter discusses how Conrad’s perspective is shaped, enriched and complicated by the ways in which the fictional characters, narrators and listeners interact – both in ...
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U engleskom su jeziku koordinacijski veznici (both…and, either…or, neither…nor i dr.) češći u pisanom nego u razgovornom diskursu, a osobito su uobičajeni u pisanom akademskom diskursu kojem osiguravaju karakterističnu ...
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This chapter investigates passive constructions with an expletive subject, labelled as impersonal passives. The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) provides material for comparison across both constructions and ...
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This paper reports on a cross-linguistic study of ‘be’ verbs in Czech, English and Norwegian, viz. být, be and være, drawing on data from the fiction part of the International Comparable Corpus (Čermáková et al. 2021). The ...
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Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change.
How do you become a citizen? Ever since ...
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This corpus-based study contributes to the ongoing discussion on conventional politeness markers, such as please, by being the first to examine how the corresponding Norwegian lexical item vennligst ‘please’ is used. The ...
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Este artigo apresenta o Desafio de Identificação de Personagens (DIP) em profundidade. Documenta a sua motivação, as escolhas feitas, o desenrolar do processo de organização, a avaliação conjunta, e os resultados que podemos ...
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A primeira edição do Desafio de Identificação de Personagens (DIP) foi uma avaliação conjunta de soluções computacionais para a identificação de personagens em textos literários, bem como a extração de características ...
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Neste artigo é descrita em pormenor a tarefa de identificação de relações familiares no Desafio de Identificação de Personagens (DIP), uma avaliação conjunta para identificar personagens em textos literários em português. ...
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Concern for global warming, climate change and pollution has grown in recent years, with countries across the world facing natural disasters on unprecedented scales. The communication of environmental protection is therefore ...
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Langston Hughes’s classic essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” is commonly read as a defense of Black racial pride. I argue that it simultaneously performs a subtle but radical sociological critique of the ...
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The 1930s Dust Bowl on the Great Plains was one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in history. Over-farming, severe drought, and high winds primed dust storms. Depopulation occurred in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, ...
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Les sujets parlants plurilingues se définissent souvent comme plus ou moins émotifs selon la langue qu’ils parlent. Est-ce qu’on peut expliquer cette auto-perception à travers les formes employées dans une même situation ...
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Prior to this study, the moth flies in The Netherlands were represented by 61 species. Our findings derive from a citizen-science expedition in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, one of the oldest public parks and best known ...
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John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), the literary breakthrough of one of the most successful novelists of our time, is a Cold War classic that changed the direction of spy fiction, ...
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Abstract In 2006, a “tolerance policy” was launched in St. Petersburg to address the growing xenophobia and the need to integrate labor migrants. Applying a bottom–up perspective, this study finds that this policy was ...
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Verbs such as seem and appear combine features of evidential meaning with epistemic modality. This study takes a corpus-based, contrastive view of such verbs in Norwegian and English. It investigates the frequencies, ...
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Gracias a los últimos avances en tecnologías de teletransporte espacio-temporales, este ensayo revela unos documentos llegados a nosotros desde el futuro. A partir de esta documentación se hace arqueología del presente ...
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This article presents initial findings from the first systematic investigation of /2mm/, a disyllabic bilabial-nasal response particle pronounced with the specific high-low-high wave form of the East Norwegian ‘second tonal ...
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During Vladimir Putin’s presidency, and in particular since the enthronement of Patriarch Kirill (2009), the Russian Orthodox Church has invested considerable energy and prestige in its fight against abortion. Nevertheless, ...
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The five wits were an important component of culture in the Middle Ages, and passages dealing with the bodily wits occur frequently in early vernacular medical literature (1375- 1600). Our aim is to relate these texts to ...
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Abstract Literature emerges as an uncertainty practice in the context of today’s volatile environments. Considering literary texts as linguistic constructions reprogramming our lifeworld through formal constraints and ...
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This study examines the role of metaphor in the conceptualization of očaj ‘despair’ based on the Croatian corpus hrWaC. The study also considers some non-figurative aspects. Employing “metaphorical pattern analysis” ...
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In scholarly debates as well as in public discourse, Georgia is often reduced to being one of the states “in-between” Russia and the European Union (EU), and part of a “contested neighbourhood”. The breakaway ...
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This article investigates continuities and changes in abbreviation practices from late Middle English to twenty-first-century digital platforms. Adopting a diachronic perspective and lexicological framework, it quantitatively ...
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In the last 20 years, the study of mind wandering has attracted the attention of a growing number of researchers from fields like psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Mind wandering has been characterized in multiple ...
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Predictive processing is a recent approach in cognitive science that describes the brain as an engine of probabilistic hierarchical inference. Initially proposed as a general theory of brain function, predictive processing ...
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This chapter presents the methodological considerations, the challenges and the opportunities, of investigating the language of fake news across cultures. The methodological considerations are based on the Fakespeak project, ...
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Abstract The type of mood or tense marking that causes counterfactuality inferences—as figuring prominently, but far from exclusively, in counterfactual conditionals—has not yet received a comprehensive and compositional ...
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Through a review of previously undisclosed documents, the essay reconstructs the relationship between Carlo Betocchi and Libero de Libero and examines their literary works throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It notably highlights ...
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Il saggio prende in esame la recente edizione del Giornale di guerra e di prigionia di Carlo Emilio Gadda (Adelphi 2023), a cura di Paola Italia, mettendone in luce le novità e le differenze rispetto al testo critico ...
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This chapter asks what it would mean to think about temporality in terms of idleness. Is it possible to conceive of such a thing as free time, or must the time we live in always be committed to a project or a goal? Exploring ...
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In this paper, we investigate the common narrative in literary history that the inner lives of characters became a central preoccupation of literary modernism. We operationalise this notion via a proxy, tracing the use of ...
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Traditionnellement, quatre types d’emplois caractérisent già. Ce sont les emplois définis comme les emplois temporels, de renforcement, scalaires et les emplois absolus. Dans notre étude, nous formulons au départ une ...
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In this final chapter, we will answer our overall research questions, comparing findings across the various contexts investigated in the preceding chapters. In doing so, we will point out what voting motivations, aspects ...
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This chapter analyses the argumentation of populist parties’ supporters in Croatia and Slovenia in the context of the 2019 European Parliament elections. It focuses on two countries that are rather different in terms of ...
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This study presents a new dataset for fake news analysis and detection, namely, the PolitiFact-Oslo Corpus. The corpus contains samples of both fake and real news in English, collected from the fact-checking website ...
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Applying Joshua Fishman’s typology for linguistic corpus planning, this article surveys corpus planning in independent Ukraine regarding changes in political conditions and in standard linguistic forms. Between 1991 and ...
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While utterance interpretation is standardly understood as context-sensitive inference, there are prima facie reasons to doubt it is fully unencapsulated. First, utterance interpretation is normally fast and automatic, ...
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The library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/1-1631) has been described as the most impor- tant collection of manuscripts assembled by a single person in Britain. The collection was partly destroyed in a library fire in ...
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Vladimir Putin has numerous times claimed that ‘Ukrainians and Russians are one people’; this was part of the legitimation for the attack on Ukraine in February 2022. This article examines the prehistory of this claim in ...
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Non-standardised early vernaculars present a problem for search tools due to the high degree of variation. The challenge lies in the variation found in orthography, syntax, and lexicon between titles, incipits, and explicits ...
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In this paper, we look at how masculine and feminine characters are described in literature in Portuguese, using a publicly available literary corpus: Literateca. We investigate the words used to characterise human beings, ...
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Subjunctives are typically used in intensional, or modal, contexts to talk about possible worlds, but they can also be licensed in negative contexts. While prior work has sought to unify these ‘polarity’ subjunctives with ...
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This article offers an exploration of the creative process of literary authors from a cognitive-psychological perspective. Analyzing Annie Ernaux’s personal diary, her writing diary, and avant-textes and manuscript drafts ...
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El concepto de «zona», acuñado por el escritor argentino Juan José Saer en su primera publicación de 1960, define un lugar de enunciación y también un registro formal en tensión con las escrituras del contemporáneo boom ...
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Set in the contemporary public discourse about the Serbian language, this paper demonstrates how metaphors of and about language constructed with the source domains of violence and war (e.g., language occupation, ...
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Notre article présente une analyse comparative de deux études menées sur l’acquisition des relatives par les apprenants norvégiens (Stenkløv, Helland, Larrivée 2023a/b) et d’un travail sur le même thème auprès d’apprenants ...
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Acquisition of relative is subject to the Accessibility Hierarchy developed by Keenan and Comrie (1977), and should not be subject to mother tongue transfer effects, even if these are documented. The tension ...
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The recent decades have seen an increased focus on the Nordic region in Scottish political discourse. Pro-independence political actors have been eager to assert similarities to the Nordic countries, often presenting the ...
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The case study of the article is translanguaging as an educational strategy in preparation for the graduation exam in Romanian language and literature in a Hungarian school in Miercurea Ciuc/Csíkszereda, ...
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Abstract: A pervasive finding in learner corpus research is that advanced EFL learners tend to overuse interactional features of writer/reader visibility (WRV) in their written academic texts, including first- and second-person ...
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I denne artikkelen undersøker jeg hvordan «selvet» tematiseres i August Strindbergs naturalistiske verk fra 1880- og 1890-tallet så vel som i dramaet Ett drömspel etter århundreskiftet. Med nedslag i dramaet Fadren og ...
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Neste artigo exploramos várias potencialidades que os ambientes da Gramateca e da Literateca permitem aos usuários interessados na pesquisa em língua portuguesa. Por um lado, apresentamos estes ambientes dando conta de ...
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We present some results of applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques in the domain of History, having as object of investigation the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary (Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico ...
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I de siste tiårene av 1700-tallet ble det stadig utgitt bøker som tok sikte på å oppdra unge kvinner til voksenlivet. De var tenkt som hyggelig og nyttig lesestoff i hjemmet og var dels kjønns- og oppdragelsesfilosofisk ...
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We discuss several challenges of evaluating information extraction patterns, using the DHBB corpus, a public resource for the Dicion´ario Hist´orico-Biogr´afico Brasileiro. Our goal is to stress both the limitations and ...
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From being a relatively neglected field, the study of de facto states has developed rapidly in recent years. As the break-up of the Soviet Union produced seven de facto states – four that still exist to this day (Abkhazia, ...
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In scenes VII-X of the second painting corresponding to the ‘auto sacramental’ The martyr of the Sacrament, San Hermenegildo by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), the character who allegorizes the fantasy of King ...
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Most recent studies on multilingual writing deal with literature by first- or second-generation immigrants. This article responds to debates about multilingual literature by examining the asymmetrical, ...
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1959 hielt die Philosophin Hannah Arendt die Preisrede „Gedanken zu Lessing. Von der Menschlichkeit in finsteren Zeiten.“ In der Zeit von 1960–1966 hielt die Dichterin Nelly Sachs Reden bei der Verleihung verschiedener ...
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We introduce the problem of identifying characters in literary text, and mention some specific issues that are special for Portuguese, in the context of presenting DIP, a shared task to foster work in the area and produce ...
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El presente artículo describe el proceso de creación de una experiencia inmersiva didáctica online sobre el cuento “La noche boca arriba”, de Julio Cortázar, un relato habitual en los programas académicos de literatura ...
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Academic attribution, the direct acknowledgement of external sources, is investigated in two corpora of novice academic English, representing first and second language writing in linguistics. The forms and uses of attribution ...
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Published in 1958 by Garzanti, I viaggi la morte offers a multifaceted portrayal of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s critical activity over the span of thirty years, by gathering texts as diverse as linguistic, literary, and philosophical ...
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The debate over the relation between grammatically relevant (specifically, what we term event referential) and idiosyncratic aspects of verb meaning has produced a considerable literature. Some authors, such as Levin and ...
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This article theorizes the connection between political distrust and conspiracy theories through a post-political framework. Following Luc Boltanski’s focus on the critical capacities of ordinary actors, it builds on ...
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In this paper we present some exploratory studies of emotion words based on large annotated corpora of Portuguese. Those corpora were automatically annotated with emotionality, and each emotion word was assigned one or ...
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In this article I argue that Michel Houellebecq’s novelistic descriptions of isolated and depressed protagonists in Sérotonine (2019) and in his earlier novels should not simply be read as symptomatic of the crisis of love ...