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1) The Linguistic Challenge of the Transition to Secondary School: A Corpus Study of Academic Language
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Taylor and Francis
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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This book provides a unique analysis and description of the linguistic challenges faced by school students as they move from primary to secondary school, a major transition, which some students struggle with emotionally and academically. The study:
Author
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations
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English
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The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s-covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide...
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English
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The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the...
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English
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Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that...
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English
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From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic "theaters of pardoning" in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England....
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English
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“The Bureaucracy of Empathy” revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? Shira Shmuely investigates these ethical issues through a close and careful history of the origins, implementation, and enforcement of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act of Parliament, which for the first time imposed legal restrictions on animal experimentation and mandated official supervision...
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English
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During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian...
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Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
"Despair (1934) is Vladimir Nabokov's sixth novel, written in Berlin, and his third, after King, Lady, Jack and Camera Obscura, a psychological-criminal novel that rejects the conventions of this genre. Hermann, a Berlin merchant of Russian-German origin, convinced of his genius, is plotting a crime that, like a work of art, must become a masterpiece of ingenuity and impeccable execution. Life, however, turns out to be much cleverer and more artistic...
Author
Series
Corpus) volume 683
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"Twenty-two-year-old Frenchman Paul-Emile, dreaming of fighting the Nazis, leaves occupied Paris, gets to London and is placed at the disposal of the British special services. He is studying at a special training school and, together with a group of the same desperate, ardent and young French patriots, returns to his homeland to join the underground struggle. Here he will face suicidal operations carried out under the very noses of the Gestapo, Abwehr...
17) Agata: roman
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Series
Corpus) volume 727
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
19) Dni odinochestva
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Corpus) volume 563
Language
Russian
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Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician...
Author
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Corpus) volume 583
Language
Russian
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When Leda's daughters leave home to be with their father, she decides to take a trip to a small coastal town in Italy, but soon after she arrives memories from her unsettled past come back to haunt her.
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