Academic Articles & Research Papers

A contrastive analysis of articles in English and demonstratives in isiZulu

An analysis of the use of demonstratives in isiZulu (izabizwana zokukhomba) has shown that they go beyond the known deictic functions of demonstratives as used in other languages like English. In isiZulu, demonstratives tend to also denote ...

Formar profesores de lenguaje y comunicación en y para la diversidad: una propuesta desde Alter-Nativa

Aquí se presentan los resultados de una investigación pedagógica, de tipo curricular y didáctico, realizada en el marco de la Acción ALTER-NATIVA, ALFA III[1]. Específicamente, se exponen los resultados del trabajo mancomunado de la comunid...

Clues to the chronology of Old Germanic loans in Romanian and in other South-East European languages

Clues to the chronology of Old Germanic loans in Romanian and in other South-East European languages The present article is directly based on the handout of the talk this author gave at the International Conference on Balkan Linguistics (6...

Wildlife Watching Tourism. Una zampata semiotica sul caso trentino dell’orso.

Tourism interested in observing wild animals like big predators in their own environment has recently appeared in Trentino, following the planned reintroduction of bears, part of the Life Ursus project, whose essential steps are taken up he...

Visual attention and phonological processing in children with developmental language disorder

IntroductionDevelopmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a neurobiological condition characterized by insufficient language and communication development, with no underlying physical, sensory, or cognitive explanations. A prominent feature amon...

Ile lingwistyki w slawistyce, ile slawistyki w lingwistyce?

How Much Linguistics in Slavistics, How Much Slavistics in Linguistics? The author makes an attempt to discuss the current role of linguistics among other disciplines of Slavonic studies (Slavistics), i.e. literature and cultural studies. T...

The associative copulative and expression of bodily discomfort in Northern Sotho

This article discusses one of the meanings expressed by the associative copulative construction with -na le, ‘have’ in Northern Sotho, namely to ‘physically experience discomfort’, ‘suffer from’ or ‘be ill with’ something. In light of alter...

Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation: A Practitioner’s View

Translated novels and poems often arrive footnoted with “cultural notes” on words and allusions obscure to the reader’s cultural heritage. But translations of performances – whether of theatrical or cinematic dramas – have no recourse to su...

The Cultural Identities of Foreign Language Teachers

Foreign language teachers are often migrants. They have traveled and lived in other countries either to learn or to teach a language. In 2005, Domna Stanton characterized language teaching as a cosmopolitan act-- “a complex encounter made i...

Angela Tillmann / Sandra Fleischer / Kai-Uwe Hugger (Hrsg.) (2014): Handbuch Kinder und Medien. Wiesbaden: Springer VS

Acaeceres en la vida de Juce Gotina, sastre judío de la villa de Épila (siglo XV)

Este estudio comenta algunos aspectos de la vida de Juce Gotina, sastre judío que residió en Épila, villa aragonesa del señorío de los Ximénez de Urrca, en el siglo XV. Juce fue hijo de Jaco Gotina y nieto del judío zaragozano Nahamen Gotin...

Proper Names and Their Functions in the Text Coherency Formation (at the Material of the Novels “The Twelve Chairs” and “The Little Golden Calf” by I. Ilf and E. Petrov)

The article deals with the onomastic space structure in the literary text and its constituents functions in realization of coherency as a text forming category. It is stated that providing global text coherence onyms could represent both de...

André Carvalhal (2014) A Moda Imita a Vida, Estação das Letras e Cores (278 páginas – brochura)

Fashion seems to have definitely come into fashion again — and into people’s lives. It is no longer related to a way of dressing......

Didactic-methodic and psychological features of the use of video materials in teaching a foreign language

Modern technology is expanding the possibilities of classes and determining the need for new forms of learning. The study of multimedia technology is currently developing in an academic way. Visuals in general play a huge, sometimes decisiv...

A inclusão do aluno surdo no ensino regular na perspectiva de professores de um município de São Paulo

A inclusão de surdos na escola regular vem sendo abordada a partir de diferentes perspectivas, dentre elas os direitos da pessoa com defi ciência e o exercício da cidadania, a exposição à língua de sinais ou ao português e a modalidade de e...

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DENGAN BERMEDIA SECARA SANTUN

The existence of mass media has been attached to the life of modern society. The majority of mass media managed to gain material advantage and non-material at once. However, most media managers prefer material gains rather than materials,su...

The Mediating Effect of Social Anxiety on the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Body Dissatisfaction Among University Students

Body dissatisfaction has become increasingly common among women and young adults and has only become worse in the digital age, where people have increased access to social media and are in constant competition and comparisons with their “fr...

Tiktok as a new paradigm for information in the Ukrainian War. A study from the West of the initial coverage of the conflict through this platform

En virtud de que las redes sociales se perfilaron como fuentes de información desde el primer momento en que Rusi tomó la decisión de invadir Ucrania en febrero de 2022, la presente investigación pretende analizar, de forma exploratoria el ...

Six years too long [Bougainville]

An editorial on the Bougainville peace talks at Arawa in October 1994....

Journalisters syn på journalistisk etik

Ethics, moral and values have gained much attention in the past decades, which also have created focus on journalism ethics, particularly because of the power and potentially negative consequences journalism can have. A survey with members ...