Search Results - "linguist"

Assessing grammar the languages of LARSP /

Table of Contents: “…On the origin of LARSPecies / David Crystal -- LARSP thirty years on / Paul Fletcher, Thomas Klee, and William Gavin -- Computerized profiling of clinical language samples and the issue of time / Steven Long -- HARSP : a developmental language profile for Hebrew / Ruth Berman and Lyle Lustigman -- Profiling linguistic disability in German-speaking children / Harald Clahsen and Detlef Hansen -- GRAMAT : a Dutch adaptation of LARSP / Gerard W. …”
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Challenging heterosexism from the other point of view representations of homosexuality in Queer as folk and The L word / by Frei, Dana, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Queer representation and popular media -- Television series and homosexuality -- Theoretical background -- Queer studies: current state of research -- Developing theses -- Deconstructing heteronormativity -- Challenging institutionalized -- Attitudes and expectations -- Reinforcing stereotypes -- Subjects of investigation -- Queer as folk and The L word -- Queer as folk (QAF-UK) -- Queer as folk (QAF-US) -- The L word (TLW) -- Format conventions and characteristics -- Methodology -- Preparing audiovisual material for analysis -- Cultural negotiations and television serials -- Analysing content in products of popular media -- Qualitative content analysis -- Methodological steps -- Categories and coding -- Results -- Points of focus -- Creating a homonormative world -- Representation of the others -- Social and legal injustice -- Family: questioning genetic bonds -- Bigotry, homophobia and violence -- Hypocrisy & failing morals -- Heterophobia -- New order and value system -- Pride, self-acceptance and linguistic Resignification -- New forms of partnership -- Families of choice: loyalty and friendship -- Assimilation versus diversity -- Questioning gender and sexual dichotomies -- Unmasking the performativity of gender -- Limits of sexual fluidity -- Stereotypes and the mandate of representation -- Hedonism and promiscuity -- Celebrating a lifestyle: party, sex and drugs -- Dangers and the threat of HIV -- The requirement of youth and beauty -- Politics of visibility -- Visibility and the construction of a community -- Representing queer diversity -- Results, conclusion and outlook.…”
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Unnatural narratives--unnatural narratology

Table of Contents: “…Unnatural Worlds and Events / Jeff Thoss (Graz) -- Unnatural Narrative and Metalepsis: Grant Morrison's Animal Man / Johannes Fehrle (Vancouver) -- Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics' A Critical Examination / Andrea Moll (Freiburg) -- Natural or Unnatural? Linguistic Deep Level Structures in AbE: A Case Study of New South Wales Aboriginal English.…”
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Assessing grammar the languages of LARSP /

Table of Contents: “…On the origin of LARSPecies / David Crystal -- LARSP thirty years on / Paul Fletcher, Thomas Klee, and William Gavin -- Computerized profiling of clinical language samples and the issue of time / Steven Long -- HARSP : a developmental language profile for Hebrew / Ruth Berman and Lyle Lustigman -- Profiling linguistic disability in German-speaking children / Harald Clahsen and Detlef Hansen -- GRAMAT : a Dutch adaptation of LARSP / Gerard W. …”
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Challenging heterosexism from the other point of view representations of homosexuality in Queer as folk and The L word / by Frei, Dana, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Queer representation and popular media -- Television series and homosexuality -- Theoretical background -- Queer studies: current state of research -- Developing theses -- Deconstructing heteronormativity -- Challenging institutionalized -- Attitudes and expectations -- Reinforcing stereotypes -- Subjects of investigation -- Queer as folk and The L word -- Queer as folk (QAF-UK) -- Queer as folk (QAF-US) -- The L word (TLW) -- Format conventions and characteristics -- Methodology -- Preparing audiovisual material for analysis -- Cultural negotiations and television serials -- Analysing content in products of popular media -- Qualitative content analysis -- Methodological steps -- Categories and coding -- Results -- Points of focus -- Creating a homonormative world -- Representation of the others -- Social and legal injustice -- Family: questioning genetic bonds -- Bigotry, homophobia and violence -- Hypocrisy & failing morals -- Heterophobia -- New order and value system -- Pride, self-acceptance and linguistic Resignification -- New forms of partnership -- Families of choice: loyalty and friendship -- Assimilation versus diversity -- Questioning gender and sexual dichotomies -- Unmasking the performativity of gender -- Limits of sexual fluidity -- Stereotypes and the mandate of representation -- Hedonism and promiscuity -- Celebrating a lifestyle: party, sex and drugs -- Dangers and the threat of HIV -- The requirement of youth and beauty -- Politics of visibility -- Visibility and the construction of a community -- Representing queer diversity -- Results, conclusion and outlook.…”
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Family talk discourse and identity in four American families /

Table of Contents: “…"A gore's our guy": linguistically constructing a family political identity / Cynthia Gordon -- Sharing common ground: the role of place reference in parent-child conversation / Philip LeVine -- Family members interacting while watching TV / Alla V. …”
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Archaeology of African plant use /

Table of Contents: “…Adebisi Sowunmi -- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn and Katharina Neumann -- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen -- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. …”
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Archaeology of African plant use /

Table of Contents: “…Adebisi Sowunmi -- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn and Katharina Neumann -- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen -- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. …”
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Words, worlds, and material girls language, gender, globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Gaudio -- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller -- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar -- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen -- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz -- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang -- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier.…”
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Exile and suffering a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…a fresh look at Psalm 137 / Bob Becking -- The poetics of exile and suffering : memory and perceptions : a cognitive-linguistics study of Lamentations / Yehoshua Gitay -- The Exile as Sabbath rest : the Chronicler's interpretation of the Exile / Louis Jonker -- Lamenting the loss of lament, the language for our times / Frances Klopper -- Interpreting 'the Exile' in African Biblical scholarship : an ideo-theological dilemma in post-colonial South Africa / Gerald West.…”
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? …”
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Resourcing New Testament studies literary, historical, and theological essays in honor of David L. Dungan /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Has Goulder sunk Q? On linguistic characteristics and the synoptic problem / Allan J. …”
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Granville Sharp's canon and its kin semantics and significance / by Wallace, Daniel B.

Table of Contents: “…The problem of the construction -- The need for this study -- Methodological considerations -- Limitations in the method and scope of research -- Historical investigation -- Preface : Jesus as [Geovv] in the New Testament -- Granville Sharp and his Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- A short life of Granville Sharp -- The writings of Granville Sharp -- Sharp's Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- Two centuries of misunderstanding -- From Wordsworth to Winstanley : early reactions to Sharp's first principle -- From Middleton to Winer : the eclipse of understanding -- The rising misunderstanding, abuse, and neglect of Sharp's canon -- Sharp redivivus? -- Linguistic-phenomenological analysis -- The nature of the construction in general -- The construction involving personal, singular, non-proper substantives -- A proper semantic grid -- The empirical data -- The construction involving personal, plural, non-proper substantives -- A proper semantic grid -- The empirical data -- The construction involving personal, singular, proper names -- The construction involving impersonal substantives -- A proper semantic grid -- The empirical data -- Mixed constructions -- Exegetical implications and interactions -- Impersonal substantive constructions -- Concrete impersonal constructions -- Abstract impersonal constructions -- Personal, plural, non-proper constructions -- Ambiguous passages -- Exegetically significant passages -- Personal, singular, non-proper substantive constructions -- Sharp's application to Christologically significant texts -- Passages overlooked by Sharp -- Two Christologically significant texts -- Mixed constructions -- Conclusions -- Exegetical conclusions -- Methodological conclusions.…”
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Mental health services for deaf people : treatment advances, opportunities, and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Part I, Epidemiology, etiology, and cultural, linguistic, and developmental aspects / Tiejo van Gent -- Mental health problems in deaf children and adolescents. …”
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Exile and suffering a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…a fresh look at Psalm 137 / Bob Becking -- The poetics of exile and suffering : memory and perceptions : a cognitive-linguistics study of Lamentations / Yehoshua Gitay -- The Exile as Sabbath rest : the Chronicler's interpretation of the Exile / Louis Jonker -- Lamenting the loss of lament, the language for our times / Frances Klopper -- Interpreting 'the Exile' in African Biblical scholarship : an ideo-theological dilemma in post-colonial South Africa / Gerald West.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Resourcing New Testament studies literary, historical, and theological essays in honor of David L. Dungan /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Has Goulder sunk Q? On linguistic characteristics and the synoptic problem / Allan J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Granville Sharp's canon and its kin semantics and significance / by Wallace, Daniel B.

Table of Contents: “…The problem of the construction -- The need for this study -- Methodological considerations -- Limitations in the method and scope of research -- Historical investigation -- Preface : Jesus as [Geovv] in the New Testament -- Granville Sharp and his Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- A short life of Granville Sharp -- The writings of Granville Sharp -- Sharp's Remarks on the uses of the definitive article -- Two centuries of misunderstanding -- From Wordsworth to Winstanley : early reactions to Sharp's first principle -- From Middleton to Winer : the eclipse of understanding -- The rising misunderstanding, abuse, and neglect of Sharp's canon -- Sharp redivivus? -- Linguistic-phenomenological analysis -- The nature of the construction in general -- The construction involving personal, singular, non-proper substantives -- A proper semantic grid -- The empirical data -- The construction involving personal, plural, non-proper substantives -- A proper semantic grid -- The empirical data -- The construction involving personal, singular, proper names -- The construction involving impersonal substantives -- A proper semantic grid -- The empirical data -- Mixed constructions -- Exegetical implications and interactions -- Impersonal substantive constructions -- Concrete impersonal constructions -- Abstract impersonal constructions -- Personal, plural, non-proper constructions -- Ambiguous passages -- Exegetically significant passages -- Personal, singular, non-proper substantive constructions -- Sharp's application to Christologically significant texts -- Passages overlooked by Sharp -- Two Christologically significant texts -- Mixed constructions -- Conclusions -- Exegetical conclusions -- Methodological conclusions.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Mental health services for deaf people : treatment advances, opportunities, and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Part I, Epidemiology, etiology, and cultural, linguistic, and developmental aspects / Tiejo van Gent -- Mental health problems in deaf children and adolescents. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Fuzzy grammar a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Gradience / Dwight Bolinger ; Degrees of grammaticalness / Noam Chomsky ; Descriptive statement and serial relationship / Randolph Quirk ; On the analysis of linguistic vagueness / Ji�r�i V. Neustupn�y ; Nouniness / John Robert Ross ; The coordination-subordination gradient / Randolph Quirk ... …”
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