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]
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
The surface enrichment of archaeological silver-copper alloys has been recognized for many years. However, the origin of this enrichment is not well defined and many hypotheses have been put forward to account for this behaviour: segregation of the compon
The impact of air raids on civilian morale during the Second World War has been the subject of much dispute. Official histories concluded that the mental health of the nation may have unproved, while panic was a rare phenomenon. Revisionist historians arg
Environmental theorists, seeking the origin of Western exploitative attitudes toward nature, have directed their attacks against 'humanism'. This essay argues that such criticisms are misplaced. Humanism has much closer affinities to environmentalism th
Reactive new bone on the endocranial surface of the skull in non-adults has recently received a lot of attention in the palaeopathological literature. These features appear as layers of new bone on the original cortical surface, expanding around meningeal