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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"glossing"”.
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Type of Glossing Affects Cognitive Load and Retrieval of Meaning During L2 Reading
… a source of controversial debate, nevertheless, glossing—and, specifically, interlinear glossing—remains an understudied type of materials, despite having been used by learners and teachers of foreign languages since at least 1000 C.E. (Bata, Gwara & Porter, 1997). In the absence of a …
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Studies in Medieval Irish Legal Ancillary Material
… the older strata of material and their immediate glossing. This dissertation begins with in-text glossing, and goes beyond the immediate glossing context to consider other forms of what I call legal ancillary material. It is composed of two major parts: etymological glosses; and glossae collectae …
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Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives
… the slaves' control over their lives, while glossing over the brutality of the institution of slavery. Slave women have been ignored until very recently, and those few historians who studied their lives have applied the same categories of inquiry used by traditional historians with a male …
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Conversation between nurses and patients with aphasia : how to stay out of trouble
… the interactive consequences of repair, glossing over potential sources of trouble, and managing the conversation in a manner that limited the potential for trouble to occur. The interactive advantages and disadvantages of this strategy of are discussed, along with theoretical and …
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The Power Production Paradox: Revealing the Socio-Technical Impediments to Distributed Generation Technologies
… The approach not only helps us understand the glossing over of renewable energy and distributed generation technologies, but also suggests ways of overcoming the barriers faced by their advocates.
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Metaphor in contemporary British social-policy. A Cognitive Critical Study Of Governmental Discourses On Social Exclusion.
… are discursively placed outside society, glossing inequalities within the included mainstream and placing the blame for exclusion on the cultural deficiencies of the excluded. The solution to the problem of exclusion is implicit within the logic of its conceptual structure and involves …
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Metaphor in contemporary British social-policy. A Cognitive Critical Study Of Governmental Discourses On Social Exclusion.
… are discursively placed outside society, glossing inequalities within the included mainstream and placing the blame for exclusion on the cultural deficiencies of the excluded. The solution to the problem of exclusion is implicit within the logic of its conceptual structure and involves …
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The effects of hypermedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension
Recent research on the effectiveness of glossing lexical items in computer-based reading materials has examined the role of hypermedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension (AI-Seghayer, 2001; Chun & Plass, 1996; Gettys, Imhof & Kautz, 2001; Laufer & Hill, 2000; …
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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: A Comparative Grammar
… linguists – inter alia, by providing data glossing. The discussion begins with the phonology and phonetics of both segments and larger units. This is followed by morphology, where I focus especially on the verbal system. At the heart of this dissertation is the investigation of syntax and …
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Exploring gated eco-developments - contributing towards urban performance and sustainability: a case study of Chapman's Bay Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town
… Often the sustainability debate allows for the glossing over of issues of social justice. These exclusive enclaves act as a microcosm for broader issues of social polarization and ecological fragmentation. This dissertation explores the complexities of this radical urban form and its …
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
… incorporates four key components: (1) automatic glossing of difficult words in texts, (2) individualised search engine for locating interesting texts of appropriate difficulty, (3) supplementary exercises for introducing key vocabulary and reviewing difficult words and (4) reliably monitoring …
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Affiliating in crisis : a linguistic perspective on community formation on Twitter after the nuclear accident in Japan in 2011
… here to tweets in Japanese, and to their glossing and translation in English), the study analyses the dynamic formation of the communities in patterns of linguistic choices in Twitter data. The study explores patterns that couple representations of reality with the enactment of values. It …
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The Signatory Imagination: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Don DeLillo
… of places, from prose to poetry. Explicitly glossing poems like 'Anahorish', 'Toome', and 'Broagh' as inspired by Stephen Dedalus, Heaney performs a critical repatriation of Joyce's work. Joyce uses fictional, motivated relations between names and referents to construct a linguistic …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… on the male characters' actions and by partially glossing over the female characters' contributions to the text. In order to address such a significant number of characters, this dissertation is divided into two parts. The first section is an analysis of Malory's text, examining the implications …