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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Idiolect"”.
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La influencia de la estética oriental en la autotraducción: análisis de la novela bicultural The Good Earth de la autora P.S. Buck
… lexical references or kinship), the characters’ idiolect and their social interaction, i.e. facework as presented in some dialogues of the novel. Finally, these cultural aspects have been compared with one of the Spanish translations available of the novel. To carry out this study, the main …
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Developing a chatbot-based screening tool for rapid assessment of computer-mediated communication impairment
… personal devices, each individual’s digital idiolect (their hardware, software, input method, and other preferences) can be accommodated more naturalistically. Results from an initial exploratory study at a large acute-care hospital indicate that SpeechBot can identify CMC impairment in …
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At Casey’s Altar – exploring the life and music of Bobby Casey
… complex elements of style present in his musical idiolect, but preserves his performance repertoire in the largest collection of his music in existence. The introductory chapter of this thesis contextualises the study within existing research in the field as well as outlining the methodologies …
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James Barke: Politics, Cinema and Writing Scottish Urban Modernity
… national tradition, residual parochial features, idiolect and political situation. In a bold literary form, Barke's novel celebrates and critiques Glasgow in a manner unsurpassed in Scottish letters, his approach to modern urban Scotland in his early novels being a uniquely informed and …
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Music with strings: a musicological analysis of Barry Gray’s music for Thunderbirds 1964-1966
… by ITV. In my thesis I discuss Gray’s musical idiolect and analyse what makes his music distinctive and readily identifiable. Factors in this comprise his characterful themes, the use of extended harmonies and modal content, distinctive instrumentation, a facility for working in differing …
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A Foreignising or a Domesticating Approach in Translating Dialects? Andrea Camilleri s detective novels in English and The Simpsons in Italian
… is the semi-illiterate Agatino Catarella whose idiolect merges Sicilian dialect and Italian, a strange mix that linguists define as popular Italian ; 3) A third chapter, specular to the first, which focuses on Screen Translation (dubbing and subtitling), and on the most interesting contributions …
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The genesis of poetic prose in the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine through the transgressive and maieutic agency of the figure of the Double
… of the author; Celine's transgressive use of idiolect, and the presence in the author's work of Dionysian and Apollinian elements as a metaphor for creative conflict. The second section examines those aspects of the Double which are maieutic in the Socratic sense in that they deliver the …
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Crossing Soviet Thresholds: Privacy, Literature, and Politics in Late Soviet Russia
… experimenting with language and pursuing one’s idiolect despite the ubiquitous “officialese,” as well as living in temporalities asynchronous with the public time. Beyond revealing the visions of different, non-state existences in the late Soviet era, my text also advocates examining the role of …
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Regionalità nel Sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio di Vincenzo Consolo e traduzioni.
La scrittura letteraria di Vincenzo Consolo (1933-2012) è contraddistinta da un singolare e ricercato pastiche in cui larga parte è riservata al siciliano, solitamente nella forma italianizzata, ma anche alle lingue classiche, al francese, allo spagnolo, all’italiano dei primi secoli oltre che …
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Também se escreve com palavrinhas : o idioleto de Mia Couto nas suas obras de receção infanto-juvenil
Tomando as obras de Mia Couto de receção infanto-juvenil – Mar me quer, O Gato e o Escuro, A Chuva Pasmada e O Beijo da Palavrinha – com elas constituímos um corpus de investigação, no intuito de verificar se o idioleto que caracteriza este contemporâneo autor moçambicano, presente que está na sua …