This article discusses young women's reading practices and the social uses of literature for enabling gender equality that are present in those practices. Through a digital ethnography study where six young women collaborated as participants, I asked the
While internationally there is long-standing research activity on the effectiveness of language contacts (especially in the form of mobility stays) at tertiary level and a number of literature syntheses on this field have been published, research projects
In the fall of 1965, Carmen Laforet made a three-month trip to the United States at the invitation of the U.S. government. Her impressions of the country were portrayed in Paralelo 35, which was intended to be an objective account of adventures and encoun
Critical psychiatry has recently echoed Szasz's longstanding concerns about medical understandings of mental distress. According to Szaszianism, the analogy between mental and somatic disorders is illegitimate because the former presuppose psychosocial a
In the fall of 1965, Carmen Laforet made a three-month trip to the United States at the invitation of the U.S. government. Her impressions of the country were portrayed in Paralelo 35, which was intended to be an objective account of adventures and encoun
While internationally there is long-standing research activity on the effectiveness of language contacts (especially in the form of mobility stays) at tertiary level and a number of literature syntheses on this field have been published, research projects
In the study of scientific discourse, most of the linguistic literature emphasizes politeness strategies, claiming that the scientific role demands maintaining objectivity and, therefore, mitigating criticism of other scientists (e.g., Myers 1989; Hyland
This paper is divided into two parts: (I) an overview of artist paints with emphasis on durability issues and (H) a progress report on research aimed at optimizing acrylic resins for artist paints. In Part I we describe the major types of artist paints (o
The female torso appears often in Surrealist photography. This article examines images by Man Ray and others in terms of their relation to classical form. It explores ways in which torsos appear as fragments, as body doubling corsets and mannequins, and a
This article examines a range of literature on argumentation in education published since 1990 and looks at four models of argumentation in depth. It begins by acknowledging that the field of argument studies and argumentation is now large and interdiscip
Two weapons showing grey silver like surfaces of the Spanish Late Bronze Age were investigated using SEM and metallography. The coating layer in the best preserved dagger is 6 phase tin. This is not in agreement with the experimental results and analytica
La hija del mar, , the sentimental novel that would constitute Rosal & iacute;a de Castro's first incursion in fictional prose, was first published in Vigo in 1859, edited by Compa & ntilde;el. The novel consists of twenty chapters, all of them preceded
According to historical analysis and textual interpretation, the propagation of the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity in the Ming and Qing dynasties was closely related to Matteo Ricci. When entering China, Ricci put forward the 'Theory of Buddhist-Daoist
The article examines the censorship activity of the Council of Castile, beginning with the laws and their interpretation, which sometimes led to disagreement with the Inquisition. Specific focus is paid to treatment of literature, the critical essay press