Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…I argue that while Gaines draws on this black nationalist image as context and subtext, he diverts attention away from this militant and often violent black nationalist iconography of cross-gendering to figure instead a strong, enduring black woman as a pacifying emblem of cross-racial American nation-building. Opting to follow the lead of other black male cross-gendering writers—most notably James Weldon Johnson, W. …”
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Op soek na'n Mediabestel vir Suid·Afrika by Arnold de Beer

“…It is argued that Tomaselli Is prone to state a debatable point as a "scientific fact" and then proceeds to build a whole theoretical argument on this and similar "facts". …”
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LEXCONN: A French Lexicon of Discourse Connectives by Charlotte Roze, Laurence Danlos, Philippe Muller

“…With respect to discourse organization, the most basic way of signaling the speaker’s or writer’s intentions is to use explicit lexical markers: so-called discourse markers or discourse connectives. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…The quality of perceptual experiences lies at the core of the writer’s aesthetics, which builds on the ability of language to convey the subjective perception of the characters, as well as the sensations and emotions that shape their mental lives and actively involve their sensing bodies, in an attempt to elicit readers’ empathic responses and their ethical engagement with the narrative contents. …”
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Civic Consciousness in Professional Education of Specialists in International Relations by D. V. Pekushkina

“…The author stresses the importance of building up civic responsibility and legal consciousness as a reflection of state interests. …”
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Permasalahan Anak Asuh dan Aplikasi Pelayanan Konseling Terhadap Mereka by Yusida Imran

“…Therefore, the writer recommends that the Foundation (YAB) utilize counseling services as one of the prioritized activities for handling orphans problems at YAB.…”
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“They paved the Atlantic with books”: William and Jenny Bradley, literary agents and cultural passeurs across borders by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…This article first aims at including the two agents into the communications circuit relevant to book history that unfolds from writer to editor and on to reader, at a time when the book industry became more international. …”
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On the rhetoric of handmaidenhood: The translator’s construction of (im)modesty by Kelly Washbourne

“…Ethos, persona, and hexis form part of the self-fashioning strategies that are also trust-building, and which often reveal slippages into self-assertions and even preemptive challenges. …”
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Professional Language Training of International Students in the Multicultural Environment of University for International Relations by T. Glebova

“…The language of teaching in most universities of the Russian Federation is Russian, besides, all MGIMO students are obliged to learn English either as their first or second foreign language, that is why international students have to study in a tri-lingual environment and the interfering influence of several cultures. The writer points out that under such circumstances it is necessary for future IR specialists to build a number of professionally relevant competences: linguistic, socio-cultural, communicative, and suggests educational technologies that have proved to be effective in building them: case-study, role-plays, etc. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…In this chapter, the writer also briefly mentions the Jewish Question, as it was a significant debate around the same time. …”
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Colocar-se em palavras: memórias de um percurso íntimo by Regina Dalcastagnè

“…Based on a rapprochement between the award-winning novel Nur na escuridão (Nur in darkness), by Salim Miguel, which tells his family’s saga during his immi- gration from Lebanon to Brazil, and the unpublished manuscripts of Jose Miguel, the author’s father, who tells the same story, this article discusses the reasons for writing and the use of narrative resources to build a meaning for his life. Amid the text of a legitimate writer and the one of an old grocer who wrote in Arabic and has hidden his notebook to death, there is a common will to truth, although the results may be different, with emphasis either to the “typical” character of the experience or to what it has of “singular”.…”
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À terceira margem, a terceira imagem: os afetos triangulares nas narrativas de Carola Saavedra by Maria Fernanda Garbero de Aragão

“…The present article proposes a reading of affective relations in the analysis of three novels by the writer Carola Saavedra, Toda terça (2007), Flores azuis (2008) and Paisagem com dromedário (2010), here understood as a project of a trilogy of affections. …”
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Interaktion im wissenschaftlichen Fachtext aus kontrastiver Sicht. Untersucht anhand von deutschen und lettischen linguistischen Aufsätzen by Agnese Dubova, Diāna Laiveniece, Dzintra Lele-Rozentāle

“…Discourse markers such as hedges, boosters, attitude markers, self mentions, and engagement markers that build a relationship with the reader are analysed. …”
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Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner by Jenkins Tricia

“…The paper is also self-reflective, as the writer embarks upon the formal route of PhD research, questioning the assumed benefits of the practice that has dominated the last eight years of over thirty years as a teacher and avid promoter of participatory media as a means to effect positive change. …”
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Mr. Keating’s Role as English Teacher as Seen in The Main Character of Dead Poet Society the Movie by M. Afifulloh

“…In this multidisciplinary approach, the writer uses sociology, psychology and historical approaches to conduct the result of the research. …”
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