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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Nicknames"”.
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Cease Fire: One Woman's Search for Self in a Culture of War
… graced and plagued a career. First names and nicknames were used to protect the privacy of a few and render respect for the surviving children of a fallen two.</p>
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'Ze willen grieven eten'-- teorie en praktyk van die vertaling van 'n Nederlandse kinderboek
… certain associations. Perspectives on these nicknames were obtained from linguistics, psychology, onomastics, reception aesthetics, literary convention and narratology. These all pointed to the necessity of expounding, in the target text, the characteristics highlighted by the nicknames. Part …
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Economic globalization and expressions of nationalism : a quantitative analysis of the present-day Chinese identity
… antagonism are urban young Chinese and nicknames them China's "angry youths". This thesis focuses on the micro-foundations underlying expressions of nationalism in the forms of economic protectionism and xenophobic political hostility, and musters both public and original survey data to …
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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
… the strategies used to refer to them (names, nicknames, 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 …
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A linguistic study of forms of address in Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic
… kin-terms, personal names, teknonyms, patronyms, nicknames, etc. which are used in the Family Domain. Part Three deals with modes of address regularly observed in the Domain of Social Activities, such as "courtesy formulas", "forms of reproach" and "forms of imploring". It has been found that the …
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Differences in Levels of Sports Team Identification and Sports Fan Motivation Among American Indian and Caucasian University of North Dakota Students
… investigate the extent to which team mascots, nicknames, and logos influences spectator identification and fan motivation. Hopefully this study will contribute to the existing literature on the controversy regarding UND's "Fighting Sioux" mascot, nickname, and logo, and be the basis for future …
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Semantic and pragmatic analysis of selected Namwanga personal names.
… aspects may deserve further research such as nicknames in Namwanga and their function, as well as proverbial anthroponyms of Namwanga. Thus, this study makes a positive contribution to the body of knowledge in an area that is by and large unexploited. Key words: Semantics, Pragmatics, Speech …
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Dynamics of online chat
… publicly active chat-channels by 489,562 unique nicknames over a one-year period). Key results include: 1) the first rich quantitative description of a medium-sized chat network; 2) empirical evidence for user information-processing constraints to patterns of chat-channel engagement (maximum 40 …
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Mundos reais, mundos virtuais: as relações interpessoais em (na) rede
… virtual, escondidas atrás das suas máscaras – nicknames. Será que a máxima de defendida por Lavoisier - “na natureza nada se cria, nada se perde, tudo se transforma" – se aplica também a estes contextos
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A Voice-based Multimodal User Interface for VTQuest
… of building names, the grammar also includes nicknames for the buildings. The out-of-turn interaction combines multiple steps into one spoken sentence thereby shortening the interaction and also making the process more natural for the user. The addition of a voice interface is recommended for …
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"A Thousand Names They Called Him": Naming and Proper Names in the Work of S.Y. Agnon
… change, they are forgotten, supplemented by nicknames, substituted by other names. In Agnon's fiction, names are often encountered at moments of extreme failure or distortion, and the radical effect of the name on its bearer cannot be revoked. Names can change lives - for better or worse, …
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Nxopaxopo wa mavito yo duvulela ya Vatsonga va le Zimbabwe
Ndzavisiso lowu wa Nxopaxopo wa Mavito yo Duvulela ya Vatsonga va le Zimbabwe i nhlahluvo wa mavito yo duvulela na mathyelo ya mavito hi ku angarhela, laha ku tekeriwaka enhlokweni swiyimo leswi kuceteleke mathyelo lawa, swotanihi mfuwo, vukhongeri, vupolitiki na ku hanyisana ka vanhu lava …