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Showing 1 to 20 of 260 for “"Manners"”.
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Modes and manners of religious and theological knowing.
… and informed by the work of Paul Griffiths, two manners of knowing, the ‘curious’ and the ‘studious’, are contrasted and used to position the morally and spiritually more neutral modes already outlined. It is suggested that both the pre-reflexive and reflexive modes can be exhibited in curious or …
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Oscar Wilde's Contribution to the Comedy of Manners
… the growth and the development of the comedy of manners through its various phases, up to about 1900. It will especially endeavor to bring together findings concerning the contributions of Oscar Wilde to this type of drama; an incidental problem is to find a link that connects the Victorian …
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Pictures of Rustic Customs and Manners in Colombian Literature
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The Promotion of Refinement of Manners, Morals, and Taste in The Spectator
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Do manners matter? Asymmetries in the acquisition of manner of articulation features
Contains fulltext : 86054.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Table manners at scale: introducing Lora Lens for efficient analysis & detoxification of language models
Transformer-based language models have achieved significant advancements across numerous natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, as these models grow in scale and complexity, ensuring interpretability and mitigating toxic outputs become increasingly critical challenges. This thesis …
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Minding Our Manners: Investigating The Nature Of Gricean Manner Implicature Using Psychological Priming Techniques
That we often mean more than we say is a hallmark of human communication. As per the Gricean-inspired perspective of communication, the gap between what is said and what is implicated is bridged using a set of conversational maxims that can be exploited to trigger conversational implicatures. This …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
Novels of manners exhibit social economies that bear some metaphorical resemblance to literal economies. In England and America, before the women's movement and the introduction of large numbers of women into the workforce, this was the woman's economy: the economy of manners. This thesis examines …
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Manners of distinction: nineteenth century urban imaginings, performances and bodies of affect in Havana, Cuba
… discourses show a pressing concern with the “manners” of bodies, the ways they moved, how they occupied space, and how they managed sensations and emotions to negotiate power and prestige in the highly stratified Havana’s society. Concerns for the manners of the body became the discursive …
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Bumpkin rising: the development of American identity through the country bumpkin character in American manners plays
… of the time, applies that to a significant manners play of the period, and discusses American identity through the lens of the country bumpkin. The periods within the dissertation are framed by war, notably the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and World War One. The …
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Blending Birth and Behavior: Masculine Representations of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Manners
… blunders. Indeed, this sort of novel of manners even today continues to attract an overwhelming number of critics interested in women’s issues ranging from girls’ education to the marriage market. Yet, throughout all of the current scholarship, there still exists an apparent oversight, …
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Holy vows, worldly manners: monastic space, consumption practices and social identity in the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine
Deze scriptie richt zich op historisch fenomeen van het vrouwelijk religieus bestaan in de Lage Landen tijdens de middeleeuwen en vroeg moderne tijd. Vetrekpunt van de studie is de Cisterciënzergemeenschap van Clairefontaine. Deze werd gesticht in de 13de eeuw als necropool voor de graven van …
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Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent scholarship by historians such as Steven Mintz and Amanda Porterfield have …
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The Failed Principle of Reformed Female Politeness – Exploring Tactical Silence and Voices in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
<p>The dichotomy between Elinor and Marianne's manners in Jane Austen's 1811 novel <em>Sense and Sensibility</em> is often central to several readings and interpretations of this novel. Based on the debates concerning the culture of politeness in the eighteenth century, some critics see Elinor's …
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Motivating Students Using Positive Reinforcement
… behavior management plan called "Marbles for Manners". It was my intention that this reward system would positively reinforce students who used appropriate manners while interacting with others. For the purpose of this study, manners that could be objectively measured through verbal phrases …
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Grammar-oriented object design : towards dynamically reconfigurable business and software architecture for on-demand computing
… reuse, starting from subsystems, defining their manners using a domain-specific business language, i.e., using use-case gramars, that describe the rules governing the creation, dynamic configuration and collaboration of large-grained, business-process-scale, adaptive software components with …
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Fiction as history: an examination of the ideological content of the 19th century novel of manners, with a case study of the portrayal of the ruling class in Anthony Trollope's novels
This essay begins by claiming that much conventional usage of fictional literature as historical evidence is inadequate. Rejecting any view of literature as passive 'reflector' of reality, it suggests that literature should be seen as an active cultural product. To develop this idea, several areas …
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Did Harriet Martineau's sociological methods influence Emile Durkheim's sociological methods?
… (1802-1876) published How to Observe Morals and Manners in 1838. The book was perhaps the first sociological methodology text. Emile Durkheim (1855-1917) published The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) 57 years later. Durkheim's book has traditionally been labeled as the first sociological …
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