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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Cornish"”.
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Social Resilience in Cornish Fishing Communities
Rural Cornish coastal fishing communities express, and have expressed, varying degrees of ability to develop and retain social resilience capacity, or the ability to withstand ‘shock’ over both ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ onset events in social, political, economic and natural domain terms (Wilson, 2012a). …
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Language Domains and Status in Middle Cornish
The revived Cornish language is based on the Cornish medieval miracle and saints' lives plays, and a question arising is their use of non-Cornish phrases, which has been remarked on for many years, with no consensus of what their use means. Is there a pattern in its use, or is it random, and does …
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Tourism and crime, whose problem? : a Cornish perspective
Relating crime to tourism has seemingly been a taboo subject among tourism experts and researchers and it may be speculated, this is because crime is not a problem. Even fewer criminologists have thought to give the relationship a first, let alone a second glance and yet evidence exists which …
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The Promotion of Cornish: Establishing strategies in view of the Basque experience in Trebiñu
This thesis explores the situation of Cornish and strategies that could be applied in order to restore it as a community language in Cornwall and Scilly. The first step undertaken was to determine the position and usage of Cornish in public and private domains, and speakers and non-speakers’ …
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A Torrent of Silver: Richard Trevithick, Cornish Miners and Steam Engines in Peru 1815-1828
… an in-depth investigation into the lost years of Cornish inventor and engineer Richard Trevithick in Latin America generally but more specifically to understand better the first generation of Cornish miners and steam engines in Peru from 1815 to 1828. The aims of this thesis are to approach …
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"So barbarous a practice": Cornish wrecking, ca. 1700-1860, and its survival as popular myth
The popular myth of Cornish wrecking is well-known within British culture, but there has not been a comprehensive, systematic inquiry to separate out the layers of the myth from the actual practices. This study rectifies this omission by examining wrecking activity as reported in popular sources …
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Harry Penhaul and the Subject of the Real: Photographing post-war Cornish community through a Lacanian lens
Harry Penhaul was photographer for The Cornishman newspaper in the decade following the second World War. His images narrate the history of a West Penwith Cornish community negotiating the social, cultural and economic upheavals of 1950s post-war modernity. In this study I argue that the discourse …
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Poetry and the Archive
In 2006 selected Cornish mining areas were validated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Here are found numerous remnants of the mining industry that justified Cornwall’s prominence from the Industrial Revolution up to the close of the last major mine in the 1990s. An essential part of that history is …
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An Evaluation of Tourism Communities and Community Responses to Tourism and Crime: A Case Study of two Cornish Destinations
The growth of mass tourism has placed great pressure on British seaside destinations, and has contributed to the social costs experienced by the resident population via symptoms of changing perceptions, attitudes and behaviour towards tourism, and the presence of higher crime rates. This thesis …
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‘Looking locally to understand transculturally’: A heritage and placemaking approach to the linguistic/semiotic landscapes of Cornish heritage in Mexico
… rise in the same. Although a historical view on Cornish migration has been afforded, there is a dearth of contemporary-focused scholarship. This thesis examines contemporary heritage in two sites of Cornish migration in Hidalgo: Pachuca and Real del Monte. Scaffolded by concepts from linguistic …
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Model citizens : fisherfolk imagery from West Cornwall, 1860-1910
… pictorial and photographic representations of Cornish fishing populations. It also explores a range of interactions between artists and the local populations who provided their models. The analysis of image content focuses on the material, working and social practices represented, and on the …
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The Parish Landscape in Cornwall, 1600-1800: Space, Sense, and Everyday Life
… landscape and experienced space. Utilising the Cornish glebe terriers, alongside maps, plans, court cases, and other archival sources, there will be a focus on the spatial and sensory landscapes. The sources are drawn from multiple parishes. The evidence from this period for Cornwall is …
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The Parish Landscape in Cornwall, 1600-1800: Space, Sense, and Everyday Life
… landscape and experienced space. Utilising the Cornish glebe terriers, alongside maps, plans, court cases, and other archival sources, there will be a focus on the spatial and sensory landscapes. The sources are drawn from multiple parishes. The evidence from this period for Cornwall is …
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William Apess, Elias Boudinot, and Samuel Cornish : Native Americans and African-Americans looking for freedom of expression, representation, and rhetorical sovereignty during the age of Jackson
… Boudinot, and African-American editor Samuel Cornish sought and practiced the right to represent themselves and their ethnic groups. This contributed to the political and cultural survival of their ethnic groups. Scott Lyons says, "Rhetorical sovereignty is the inherent right and ability of …
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The early history of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 1814-1850
… group of men; however in the initial years, the Cornish mining industry, in which many of them had investments, was also a major concern. Comparisons are made with a number of similar societies, including the Royal Institution of Cornwall (f. 1818) and the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic society (f. …
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A poetics of uncertainty: a chorographic survey of the life of John Trevisa and the site of Glasney College, Cornwall, mediated through locative arts practice
Connections between the medieval Cornishman and translator John Trevisa (1342-1402) and Glasney College in Cornwall are explored in this thesis to create a deep map about the figure and the site, articulated in a series of micro-narratives or anecdotae. The research combines book-based strategies …
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Triggers for Change Realising a 'Design for Sustainable Behaviour' Web-Tool for influencing Sustainable Tourism in Cornwall
… single industry", providing work for one in five Cornish inhabitants, and is responsible for almost a quarter of the money the county makes each year (Objective One, 2001, p. 10). However, in its current form, this vibrant but carbon-intensive business sector does not contribute to low-carbon …
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In Search of a Single Voice: The Politics of Form, Use and Belief in the Kernewek Language
… ideology based upon their relationship to Cornish identity. These relationships are based upon speakers' sense of ethnic self as formed through class, kinship, linguistic self-perception, religious and political affiliations and place of birth and childhood. However, since the 2006 …
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The estimation of a missing value in a lattice design using inter- and intra-block information
The procedure introduced by Cornish⁴ for estimating a missing value in a lattice design, has been extended here and modified to include not only intra-block information, but also inter-block information as well. The analysis of the lattice design has been presented with some simplification …
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A practical implementation of XVA in the new normal
… explore the work of Aboura and Maillard on the Cornish-Fisher Transformation (CF). The CF is considered as a parsimonious approach in estimating non-normal distributions, therefore an interesting alternative to price XVA using Monte Carlo (MC) simulation.
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