English Perceptions and Representations of Venetian Chromatic Variations by Anne GEOFFROY

“…As early as the 15th century, the city boasted a flourishing industry of colour relying on trades such as, among others, dyers, glassmakers, tailors, or pigment sellers (i.e. vendecolori).This paper explores the material, cultural and linguistic influence of Venice on early modern England, focusing more precisely on glass, dyes and pigments. …”
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Marking Contrastive Topics in a Topic Shift Context: Contrastive Adverbs versus Emphatic Pronouns by Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse

“…Hence, in a more general way, this study provides evidence for the idea that both language-internal and language-external factors should be taken into account when analysing the “free” choice between two similar linguistic marking strategies.…”
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A historical overview of the Wärğəḥ Muslim community in the Christian highland of Šäwa by Deresse Ayenachew

“…In north Šäwa, the community of Wärğəḥ has established scattered pockets of villages between Däbrä Berhan and Säbäta towns. Linguistically, they speak Oromo and also Amharic. Fragmentary medieval Ethiopian historical sources describe the Wärğəḥ as inhabitants of the lowlands of south-east Šäwa. …”
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LABORATORIO DI LETTERATURA ITALIANA MIGRANTE: UNA PROPOSTA DIDATTICA by Miriam Greco

“…Italian migrant literature laboratory: a didactic proposal In a multicultural school environment, can a workshop on migrant literature promote moments of reflection on the topic of cultural and linguistic identity in an effective way?  This is the question we try to answer through the design and application of a concrete educational project. …”
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Familly farms, graves, and belonging: migrations and the politics of belonging among Basotho in colonial Zimbabwe by Joseph Mujere

“…The Basotho migrated to present day Zimbabwe in the late 19th century and, ever since, they have gone through many phases of constructing belonging and carving out an enclave in an area dominated by a linguistically and culturally different autochthonous group. …”
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Le tiret de fin de phrase dans Un cœur simple — un stylème flaubertien ? by Sabine Pétillon, André Petitjean

“…Diachronically, a distinction should be kept between a dash marking the beginning of a line of dialogue and a simple dash, which adds and sets a focus on a linguistic segment in the right context. The latter, whose function is far more subjective than the former, appears in the second half of the 19th century. …”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The contributors demonstrate, on the one hand, how newer poetry softens genre distinctions and formally tends towards multimedia hybridization and, on the other, how it transcends or dissolves linguistic, cultural, and social boundaries. Dr. Ekaterina Friedrichs and Ms. …”
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L’engoulevent ou l’étrangeté porteuse de malheur (Nord du Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…This infra-belief tallying with linguistic families and even the pagan/Muslim break raises the issue of its production area, its centre and its margins. …”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The contributors demonstrate, on the one hand, how newer poetry softens genre distinctions and formally tends towards multimedia hybridization and, on the other, how it transcends or dissolves linguistic, cultural, and social boundaries. Dr. Ekaterina Friedrichs and Ms. …”
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„In der englischen Sprache zu schreiben war eigentlich eine Zumutung für mich“ by Dirk Weissmann

“…This paper aims to analyze the unusual linguistic position of this important author from the German theatre’s recent history. …”
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Gefühl und Gedächtnis in der Moderne by Johannes Görbert

“…It examines first the poem’s discourse together with some testimonies of its reception and proves that the language of Erinnerung an die Marie A. almost paradigmatically fulfils Zymner’s definition of poetry as “display of linguistic mediality” and “catalyst of aesthetic evidence”. …”
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R post-vocalique et histoire de l’anglais by Jacques Durand

“…The paper will attempt to show that, while the selection of particular traits to separate dialects is usually arbitrary from a strict linguistic point of view, once a trait has been selected and functions as a ‘shibboleth’ in the Biblical sense (Judges, xii, 5-6, “King James Version”, 1611) powerful societal forces can conjoin to maintain and reinforce it. …”
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End-to-End Architecture for English Reading and Writing Content Assessment Based on Prompt Learning by Su-Qin Wu, Ming-Yong Pang, Xue-Mei Sun, Xin-Jian Wang, Yun-Peng Ji

“…The algorithm preprocesses the input English texts through the prompt learning framework and uses multi-scale attention mechanisms to improve the model’s ability to capture features at different linguistic levels. Within an end-to-end architecture, the entire assessment process is automated, from text input to output of assessment results, eliminating the need for manually designed feature extraction steps. …”
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A Study on Translation of the Book Entitled “Semantic & Artistic Aspects of Contemporary Arabic Poetry” by Ali Bashiri, Alireza Kaveh Nooshabadi

“…This study, investigating the relationship between substation and companionship that a famous linguist Saussurehas talked about, investigated the present translation. …”
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Novella The Earthquake in Chile by Heinrich von Kleist in Serbian translations by Pasula Milica B.

“…Kleist's story has been translated into Serbian five times. It represents a linguistic as well as semantic challenge, not only in the original, but also in the translated interpretations. …”
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Towards Kyrgyz stop words by Ruslan Isaev, Gulzada Esenalieva, Ermek Doszhanov

“…In our study, we combined frequency analysis with rule-based linguistic analysis. First, we found the most frequently used words, set a threshold, and removed words below the threshold. …”
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Non-verbal agents of theatrical retranslation: Women’s identity and the Spanish classics by Jorge Braga Riera

“… Despite the burgeoning interest in literary retranslation, there is still a need to investigate how linguistic, contextual, and personal factors influence the translation of a previously translated (and performed) play into a given target language and culture. …”
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Especificidades de Gestão de Micro e Pequenas Empresas: análise de conteúdo dos projetos pedagógicos de engenharia de produção by Thairone Ezequiel de Almeida, Isabela Carvalho de Morais, Luciana Paula Reis

“…O estudo consistiu em uma pesquisa documental de 137 projetos pedagógicos de Engenharia de Produção, em 82 instituições de ensino superior públicas e privadas brasileiras, usando o software Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) para a análise de conteúdo. …”
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Thematic and Structural Unity of Q 79 (al-Nazi'at): An Intratextual and Intertextual Analysis by Hamdi Putra Ahmad

“…This article will examine a variety of topics within QS. al-Nāzi'āt (79), such as the sura's word choices and linguistic characteristics, its structure and literary forms, its place in the Qur'an chronologically, its similarities to other suras from the same period of revelation in terms of phraseology, theme, and formality, its intertextual connections to some earlier traditions, and an analysis of any possible later redactional intervention. …”
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Network wars, polylog and script convention in socially destructive online groups by Ekaterina V. Bakshutova

“…Negative emotional reactions revealed by us in network communications (collective fears, aggression, resentment), as well as cognitive models of political extremism and intellectual terrorism allowed us to construct a coding matrix that includes a description of the phenomena of destruction and their linguistic psychological markers. Based on the hypothesis that constructive conventionalization of the discussion can be achieved with 30 % of the conventional writing positions, we conducted an experiment in the Russian-speaking sector of the social networking site Facebook. …”
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