This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
This paper investigates the relationships between aspects of the context in which an utterance u takes place, and u's semantic profile, that is, its literal truth-conditions. It is widely recognized that contextual features play two important but differe
Archaeological quartz artifacts and naturally fractured quartz fragments occur in a variety of cultural and geological contexts worldwide. For dating such objects we have developed the new Quartz Hydration Dating (QHD) technique. It relies on the phenomen
The adaptational-continuum model of personality and coping suggests a useful context for research areas that emphasise both personality and coping. The present paper used Ferguson's (2001) model integrating personality and coping factors to combine theor
This article traces the history of the term 'voyeurism' from its psychoanalytic origins in the 1950s to contemporary uses in popular culture and post-Freudian, biological psychiatry. It begins with an overview of the psychoanalytic foundations of the te
The modification of illocutionary force has been the focus of a number of studies. Such studies, however, have tended to deal more with the attenuation than the boosting of illocutionary force. And it is also the case that in these discussions, linguistic
In the view of the ancient Israelites, as expressed in the Hebrew Bible, death is good or at least acceptable (1) after a long life, (2) when a person dies in peace, (3) when there is continuity in the relation with the ancestors and the heirs, and (4) wh
Narratives of ageing are an important theme in both medical sociology and the sociology of the body. Research on representations of the ageing body typically draws upon such subjects as the paintings of Rembrandt or Victorian literature. In this paper, ho
Historians and philosophers of science generally conceptualize scientific progress to be dichotomous, viz., experimental observations lead to scientific laws, which later facilitate the elaboration of explanatory theories. There is considerable controvers
Several systems have been devised for the naming of domestic animals but none has gained universal acceptance. Where Latin names of the Linnaean system are used, the majority of wild progenitor species and their domestic derivatives share the same name bu
This paper provides a sketch of the emerging role of the pharmaceutical salesman, or 'detail man', in the growth years of the American post-World War II pharmaceutical industry. Using training manuals, trade literature, in-house company newsletters, mem
Background. This paper explores the concept of 'spirituality' with reference to the Patients' Charter that stipulates that a person's religious, spiritual and cultural needs should be respected at all times. Aims and objectives. The aim is to offer a
Recent literature suggests that Phonological neighborhood density and word frequency can affect speech production, in addition to the well-documented effects that they have on speech perception. This article describes 2 experiments that examined how phono
It is simplistic to oppose a circular idea of time among the ancient Greeks to the linear time of the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, linear time appears in combination with a history understood as oriented toward a predetermi
To sum up, by world views--we understand the cultural perception of the world we belong to. This concept of world views, that comes from the Semiotic of Culture developed by the School of Tartu-Moscow in the seventies, reaches an interesting scope in Lite
Parentheticals are represented by a morphosyntactically disparate group of linguistic items, united in function: they signal information from a different discourse plane and function in the process of context selection. This paper proposes an integrated a