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Journal articles on the topic "English Nature stories"
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Freeman, Bradley C. "Claims, Frames, and Blame." SAGE Open 7, no. 1 (January 2017): 215824401667519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244016675199.
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As economies in Southeast Asia develop, there is renewed interest in the impact such growth has on nature. This study seeks to investigate how environmental issues have been covered in the English-language press of the region. Are some countries providing greater print news coverage versus others? Are there detectable patterns or noticeable biases in the coverage? What sources are relied upon in the print media stories? And what frames do we see in the coverage? This study identified general coverage patterns of the environment over a 10-year period (2002-2012), in several of the region’s English-language newspapers. News stories were analyzed to discern the nature of the coverage, coding for several variables as indicated by previous literature. Results indicate that use of the term climate change became preferred over that of global warming. In addition, coverage increased greatly starting in 2006. Government officials were most often the sources quoted within stories (Claims). Articles contained more “judgments” about the issue than “solutions” (Frames). Finally, though most articles eschewed mentioning a specific actor as causing climate change, “man” was implicated in a number of stories more often than simply “nature” (Blame).
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Minami, Masahiko. "Telling good stories in different languages." Narrative Inquiry 18, no. 1 (August 15, 2008): 83–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.18.1.05min.
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There are many ways to tell a story, but whether a story is good or bad depends on whether or not the listener/reader can comprehend all that the speaker/writer wants to convey in his or her story. This study examines the characteristics of stories that native speakers of given languages consider to be good. Forty English-Japanese bilingual children ages six to twelve were asked to narrate a picture storybook in both English and Japanese. Also involved in the study were 16 adult native Japanese speakers and 16 adult native English speakers who evaluated the stories produced by the bilingual children. An analysis of narratives receiving high ratings from evaluators shows that most stories considered good in English or Japanese should be lengthy stories with a large and varied vocabulary, and should be told in the past tense. In addition to those similarities in effective stories told in the two languages, we also found dissimilarities between “good” stories in English and “good” stories in Japanese. English evaluators felt that relating a series of events in chronological order is only one part of a good story. Providing evaluative comments (i.e., statements or words that tell the listener/reader what the narrator thinks about a person, place, thing, or event) is an indispensable part of telling good stories. So, in stories in English, aside from the standard expectation of a sequential series of events, providing the listener with emotional information is considered equally important. On the other hand, Japanese speakers accepted stories that emphasize a temporal sequence of action with less emphasis on nonsequential information, especially evaluative descriptions, and which effectively use passive forms and subject-referencing markers to enable a clear chronological sequence of events. Because the standards of what makes a good story may differ in the home and school languages/cultures, and because of the complex nature of such differences as shown in this study, it seems advisable that schools intervene and support the development of bilingual children’s skills in the use of the mainstream culture’s standards.
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Bennett, Julia. "Imagining Englishness through contested English landscapes." European Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 5-6 (August 2, 2018): 835–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549418786414.
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This article adds to current debates on the nature of English identity through examining some of what Kathleen Stewart calls the ‘incommensurate qualities that … link complexly’ to create a certain feel of a place. Based on the premise that landscape and the story of the landscape, its history, are key elements of a national identity, the article explores the shaping of an imagined community of England through memory, forgetting and ‘official’ stories by using the examples of three specific but mundane places in north west England. One is urban ex-industrial, one a formerly industrial but rural site and one rural agricultural. These stories are unravelled to show how the landscapes are integrated ‘taskscapes’ where both national and local identities are performed. Class and race are hidden behind essentialised notions of Englishness. These exemplify a particular moral vision of English landscapes as natural and timeless countryside that serves to sideline urban and working landscapes and their populations. The article proposes treating a ‘taskscape’ as a gift to future generations, thus enabling all those who are a part of the present taskscape to belong.
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Setecka, Agnieszka. "“He certainly was rough to look at”: Social Distinctions in Anthony Trollope’s Antipodean Fiction." Australia, no. 28/3 (January 15, 2019): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.28.3.04.
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The following article concentrates on the representation of social class in Anthony Trollope’s Antipodean stories, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874) and “Catherine Carmichael” (1878). Although Trollope was aware of the problematic nature of class boundaries in the Antipodes, he nevertheless employed the English model of class distinctions as a point of reference. In the two stories he concentrated on wealthy squatters’ attempts to reconstruct the way of life of the English gentry and on the role of women, who either exposed the false pretences to gentility, as in “Catherine Carmichael,” or contributed to consolidation of the landowning classes as in Harry Heathcote of Gangoil.
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Silcock, B. William. "Global News, National Stories: Producers as Mythmakers at Germany's Deutsche Welle Television." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79, no. 2 (June 2002): 339–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900207900206.
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This article explores the mythic nature of television news in a global-newsroom context. News routine analysis of newscast producers and ethnographic data from a case study of the English-language newsroom at Germany's Deutsche Welle point to the existence of sociocultural filters influencing news decisions and, in turn, mythmaking. These filters reveal a uniquely German myth—the Past—not shared and even resisted by English-language (Anglo) producers framing stories and constructing newscasts from a German news organization for a global audience.
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Jenkins, E. R. "English South African children’s literature and the environment." Literator 25, no. 3 (July 31, 2004): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.266.
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Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children’s literature in English. This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies of South African social history and literature. There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the changing roles of nature reserves, to modern ecological concern for the entire environment. Until late in the twentieth century the literature usually endorsed the assumption held by whites that they had exclusive ownership of the land and wildlife. In recent years English-language children’s writers and translators of indigenous folktales for children have begun to explore traditional beliefs about and practices in conservation.
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Acha, Walter Abo. "AN ECOCRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ANTHROPOCENTRISM IN THE CAMEROONIAN PRESS." International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) 5, no. 2 (March 15, 2022): 120–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v5i2.4202.
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The manner in which the media presents nature matters a lot. The media legitimises abusive beliefs. On this basis, this work investigated the ecologically oppressive ideologies reinforced by the Cameroonian English newspaper. Analysis focused on uncovering-to-resist discursive patterns that activated anthropocentrism (human dominance over nature). The data comprised thirty-five newspaper articles randomly selected from nine English Language newspaper publishers in Cameroon. Ecocriticrical discourse analysis (EcoCDA) is the theoretical framework adopted in this study. The descriptive statistical method (DSM) was used to analyse the data. Analyses subsumed identification, quantification and interpretation of discourse entities. Findings revealed that the Cameroonian press used diverse language patterns to manipulate agents, processes and aftermaths of environmental depletion. The press, thus, encoded anthropocentric ideologies in discursive forms like pronouns, verbs, transitivity, personification and jargon. Ecological injustices uncovered and resisted included deforestation, consumerism and growth, mineral extraction and construction, inter alia. Cognizant of the sustenance nature that offers earthly life, it was recommended that press [wo]men should refrain from manipulative language forms and stories that downplay efforts to conserve nature. They should rather cover nature-conserving stories regularly, and in language forms that align with and reinforce global efforts to protect and conserve the biophysical environment.
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Hála, Peter. "The Slovak Stories of Timrava and their English Translation." TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies 7, no. 1 (June 15, 2015): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21992/t9kg9s.
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Božena Slančíková Timrava (1867-1951) is an eminent Slovak writer. Her highly regarded realistic novels dealt with the rise of the modern Slovak nation. The intricate historical circumstances of the early 20th century, and the eventual emergence of the Slovak nation within complex European culture, made Timrava’s effort even more important. Due to the multicultural nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Timrava’s work is also meaningful in our trans-national and trans-cultural Global village. Timrava and other Slovak literary women were virtually unknown outside Slovakia until the extensive work done by Professor Norma L. Rudinsky (1928-2012), whose translation of six “Slovak stories by Timrava” was published in1992. However to truly understand and appreciate the importance of Timrava’s work, the English-speaking reader needed cultural and historical context. Rudinsky’s life-long effort culminated in the publication of “Incipient Feminists: Women Writers in theSlovak National Revival,” which was meant as a preamble to the works of Timrava for the English-speaking world. This paper introduces the life and work of Timrava within the intricate historical context of Slovak nation-building. It further outlines the importance of Rudinsky’s work and describes some interesting aspects of her translation. Attempting to present a practical cultural and historical approach to translation, the paper stresses the significance of so called ‘cultural grids’ and identifies the key elements, the ‘historical grids’, as well as author’s and translator’s biography, all within the wider context of the translator’s historical and sociological ‘matrix’ which ultimately determines the success of any translation of realistic historical literature.
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COATES, PETER. "Eastenders Go West: English Sparrows, Immigrants, and the Nature of Fear." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 3 (December 2005): 431–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805000605.
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The Tortilla Curtain (1995), a novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, juxtaposes the existence of southern California's affluent whites and non-white underclass by relating the stories of two couples whose lives become irrevocably entangled following a fateful automobile accident. The period flavour derives from racial tensions that culminated in the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and the passage, two years later, of Proposition 187, a package of prohibitive measures to curb the influx of “undocumented” immigrants from Mexico. Delaney Mossbacher, the book's main character, is a freelance nature writer with orthodox liberal views – a caricatured Sierra Club member. He contributes a monthly, Annie Dillard-esque nature column (“Pilgrim at Topanga Creek”) to an outdoor magazine. He lives in an upscale hilltop community designed in impeccable Spanish mission style – the product of white flight – apparently safe from the Mexican hordes that have broken through the border (the brittle “tortilla curtain” of the novel's title) and are overrunning the flatlands.
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Anuradha, V., Saira Siddiqui, and Mariya Sheema. "Multilingual Composition in Translated Versions of Premchand's Selected Short Stories." International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills 4, no. 4 (July 4, 2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.15864/ijelts.4402.
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Throughout history, written and spoken translations have played a crucial role in inter-human communication, providing access to important texts for scholarship and religious purposes. The practice of translating is longestablished, but the discipline of translation studies is new. In academic circles, translation was previously related to just a language-learning activity. The study of literary translation began through comparative literature, translation workshops and contrastive analysis. Translation studies have expanded hugely and are now often considered interdisciplinary. History of Indian Translation in Literature has always been an attempt to reveal the various facts of ancient and modern Indian literature and its effect on the contemporary scene of Indian literature in English. It also highlights and discusses the very nature of translation to the Indians. The notion of translation was encouraged during the colonial period by the British. The translation is culture related. The interpreted approach is the branch of translation which is also known as the 'theory of sense'. This paper aims to analyse the interpretative approach in multilingual composition and translated versions of works of Premchand's selected short stories. Multilingual composition in translated versions of Premchand's short fiction published in Urdu and Hindi and translated into English by different translators over a period of time. It focuses on the translating process, particularly on the nature of meaning as sense- as opposed to linguistic or verbal meaning and the nature of linguistic ambiguities. The resultant theory makes a distinction between implicitness (what the writer intends to say or means) and explicitness (what is said or written).
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "English Nature stories"
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Ashraf, Sabina. "Identity matters : stories of non-native English-speaking teachers' experiences under the shadow of native speakerism." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24106.
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This thesis develops a better understanding of the lived experiences of NNES teachers, coming from diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and the complex negotiations and constructions of their professional identities against the prevalent NS fallacy in the Arab Gulf states. This study employs a Postcolonial theoretical framework. In order to unravel NNESTs’ perspectives and understand how they make sense of their experiences, this study adopts a life history approach. The results suggest that participants view nativeness as a fixed identity, dependant on elements, such as being born into a language and learning it in early childhood. The participants had both confidence and concern about their linguistic abilities, which indicated that their non-native identity resulted in complex situations for them to deal with. The findings also revealed that the participants managed to find ways in which to inhabit these non-native identities confidently and to construct themselves as effective teachers who did not have to be NSs by nature. The participants narrated that the issue of pronunciation and accent had a significant impact on their professional identities. NS norms in accent was seen as eliciting stereotyped judgements of NNESTS as the inferior Other, and resulting in hiring policies that were greatly skewed against NNESTs. The participants also believed that stereotyped notions about the superiority of education acquired from the Center privileged NESTs in employment and led to the devaluation of indigenous knowledge. The participants also spoke about encountering direct and indirect challenges, which made it difficult for them to position themselves as legitimate teachers of English. They also believed that perceptions about the superiority of the NS would be impossible to overcome in the near future since the language policy of the Gulf states was strongly intertwined with its economic and political interests. The study, therefore, provides recommendations for theory, practice, and policy.
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Denetsosie, Stacie S. "Redefining Ceremony and the Sacred: Short Stories From the Dinétah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7622.
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This is a creative thesis comprised of three short stories centered on the experiences of three Navajo protagonists living on the Navajo reservation. The short stories fit within the field of Native American Literature and highlight issues of mortality, sexuality, and ceremony. The stories illustrate the experiences of modern-day Navajo youth grappling to understand how to connect traditional knowledge with modernity. The three stories featured within this thesis are offered as a way to understand these challenges. Each protagonist is faced with an issue of morality, sexuality, or ceremony, and each reach differing conclusions about these topics within their lives.
This collection is comprised of three short stories entitled “Dormant,” “Under the Porch Way,” and “The Missing Morningstar.” The first story, “Dormant,” is about a young female Navajo protagonist and her budding relationship with her math teacher. She has a pregnancy scare and considers the meaning of motherhood and her sexuality. The second story, “Under the Porch Way,” is about an adolescent Navajo boy who is being haunted by his father’s ghost, and has a traditional ceremony done, but it fails to work. Instead, after attempting to have sex with his girlfriend, Jenni, under the porch, he finds that his father’s ghost has left him. The final story “The Missing Morningstar,” is about a young two-spirit woman whose romantic interest is kidnapped and left for dead in a ditch. The protagonist considers her sexuality and traditional Navajo identity.
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Moschin, Sara <1990>. "What I Did for Love: an Analysis of the Work of Josip Novaković with reference to a Selection of Short Stories in English by Non Native Writers." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8772.
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Lo studio è incentrato sulla produzione letteraria in lingua inglese di autori contemporanei di ardua, se non impossibile, collocazione in uno dei cerchi teorizzati dal linguista Braj Kachru. Viene presentata un'analisi della vita e delle opere dello scrittore Josip Novakovic (Daruvar, 1956), con particolare attenzione rivolta alla raccolta di novelle “Stories in the Stepmother Tongue” (White Pine Press, 2000). Tra gli autori presenti nel testo verranno esaminati i racconti di Judith Ortiz Cofer, Andrew Lam, Mikhail Iossel, Mingfong Ho e Kyoko Uchida.
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Vollaro, Daniel Richard. "Origins and Orthodoxy: Anthologies of American Literature and American History." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/36.
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This dissertation examines how the new “multicultural phase” anthologies of American literature treat American history. Anthologies of American literature are more historical, more diverse, and more multidisciplinary than ever before, but they have over-extended themselves in both their historical and representational reach. They are not, despite their diversity and historicism, effective vehicles for promoting critical discussions of American history in the classroom. Chapter One outlines a brief history of anthologies of American literature, while also introducing the terminology and methodology used in this study. Chapter Two explores the role of the headnote as a vehicle for American history in anthologies by focusing on headnotes to Abraham Lincoln in multiple anthologies. Chapter Three examines how anthologies frame Native American origin stories for their readers. Chapter Four focuses on the issues raised by anthologizing texts originally composed in Spanish, and Chapter Five argues for a transnational broadening of the “slavery theme” in anthologies to include Barbary captivity narratives and texts that reference Indian slavery.
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Keefauver, Melinda Beth. "Lizard Girl and Other Girl Stories." 2011. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1157.
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This dissertation addresses the notable lack of the comic mode in contemporary ecofiction and aims to integrate humor and ecological inflection through the female narrative voice. Comedy and ecology rarely intersect in literary fiction. Ecofiction tends to be unfunny because the category grows out of the nonfiction tradition of nature writing, a genre that yields solemn, reverent, meditative essays that lack humor. Also, works of ecofiction can seem didactic, lacking the complexity, richness, and ambiguity that characterize literary fiction. Furthermore, literary critics often view comedic stories as lacking in literary quality. However, comedy has an intensifying effect on narrative, imbuing tragic moments with greater darkness and eliciting conflicted emotions in the reader. Literary fiction is characterized by this kind of ambiguity, evidenced by some of the finest works of contemporary literary short fiction that integrate comedy and tragedy.
Accordingly, I aim to write comic stories that are imbued with loss, darkness or loneliness. Ecofiction provides a ripe context for my work, as does the young female voice. Ecofiction stems from the modern predicament of rootlessness, alienation, transience, isolation—of our detachment from place. Stories that feature characters afflicted by this malaise are “eco” in the sense that they make us more aware of our contemporary relationship (or lack thereof) to the natural world. Most significantly, these stories are ripe for the intersection of comic and tragic. In my own stories, I strive to create comic female first person narrators whose actions reveal lives deeply afflicted by loneliness, placelessness, and disconnection, and whose inner wildness provides the primary source of comic dramatic tension. These protagonists are motivated by a desperate need to forge meaningful connections in a world that is precariously poised on a foundation of contingencies and whose stories are simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching.
Books on the topic "English Nature stories"
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Blackwood, Algernon. Pan's garden: A volume of nature stories. London: Macmillan, 1988.
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Brian, Richardson. Unlikely stories: Causality and the nature of modern narrative. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997.
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Gal, Susan. Into the outdoors. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2011.
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Lehman-Wilzig, Tami. Greener pastures: Ecological stories from the Bible. Minneapolis: Kar-Ben, 2011.
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Awa, Naoko. The fox's window: And other stories. [New Orleans, La.]: University of New Orleans, 2009.
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Overing, Gillian R. Landscape of desire: Partial stories of the medieval Scandinavian world. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
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Aird, Paul L. Loon laughter: Ecological fables and nature tales. Markham, Ont: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1999.
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Aird, Paul L. Loon laughter: Ecological fables and nature tales. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1997.
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Kelly, Matthew. "Introduction." In The Women Who Saved the English Countryside, 1–9. Yale University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300232240.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces four remarkable women: Octavia Hill, Beatrix Potter, Pauline Dower, and Sylvia Sayer who all shared a determination to preserve their favoured patches from modern threats. It emphasizes how they objected to untrammelled private developments and the construction of public infrastructure in places associated with natural beauty and public access. By telling their stories, the chapter takes us from the birth pangs of modern preservationism in mid-Victorian Britain through to the institutionalisation of nature conservation in the late twentieth century. It also highlights how the roles played by small, voluntarist organisations are related to the development of powerful national institutions like the National Trust, the national park authorities and the Forestry Commission. To understand the strength of the four's commitments, the chapter then takes us to Octavia's Kentish retreat, to Beatrix's Lakeland home, to the country mansion of Pauline's Northumberland childhood and to the Dartmoor cottage of Sylvia's adulthood.
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Henry, Eric S. "Better to Die Abroad Than to Live in China." In The Future Conditional, 76–93. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754906.003.0004.
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This chapter examines how personal stories of Chinese citizens often narrate self-transformation as both linguistic development and geographical movement from lower-order social spaces to higher-order ones. Taken together, the stories reveal a common plot structure beginning with descriptions of the self in childhood as naïve and lacking in comprehension, followed by a growing awareness, openness, and sense of personal growth and transformation only fully realized when the teller had traveled abroad. This plot structure of English acquisition was framed against the backdrop of Shenyang as a chronotope, the temporally backward and spatially isolated city, which can be transcended through successful language acquisition. Depending on the nature of these autobiographical trajectories, sometimes the narratives culminate in the realization of transnational personae capable of transcending the limitations of the local social context. In others, however, a variety of obstacles such as age, class, gender, or lack of social connections halt narrative self-development in its tracks, leaving only failed potential or the determination to provide a better grounding for one's children to succeed in the same path.
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Nirmala, T., and I. Arul Aram. "Newspaper Framing of Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in India." In Research Anthology on Environmental and Societal Impacts of Climate Change, 426–39. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch021.
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This article describes how climate change influences nature and human life and it is the basis for social and economic development. News reporting on climate change must address the challenges in the deeper social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps people to better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. This article aims to examine how dominant newspapers in Tamil Nadu have framed climate change and sustainability issues. This is done by analyzing climate change articles (N = 120) in two mainstream newspapers – The Hindu in English and the Daily Thanthi in Tamil. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.
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Edward, Summer. "The Picture Book Is Political." In Caribbean Children's LIterature, Volume 2, 25–56. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496844583.003.0002.
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This essay provides an extensive overview of Caribbean picture books, middle grade, and young adult books by writers from the Caribbean. The chapter explores the politically engaged nature of children’s literature in literature written in or translated into English. Categories include anti-slavery and abolition, anti-colonialism and independence, labor organizing and workers’ rights, Pan-Africanism and black consciousness, civil rights, immigrant rights, environmentalism, poverty, communism and socialism, gender and sexuality, disability rights, and political orientation. An appendix breaks down the various books according to age level, providing a rich resource for educators and librarians interested in providing literature written by those from the region, culturally authoritative stories written by Caribbean people themselves. The selections have publication dates spanning from 1949 to 2019 and are all currently in print.
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Thirumalaiah, Nirmala, and Arul Aram I. "Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers." In Research Anthology on Environmental and Societal Impacts of Climate Change, 780–98. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch038.
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Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.
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Thirumalaiah, Nirmala, and Arul Aram I. "Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers." In Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Internet Activism and Political Participation, 189–206. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4796-0.ch012.
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Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.
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Wessler, Heinz Werner. "Towards the Apocalyptic." In Religions, Mumbai Style, 256—C12P132. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192889379.003.0012.
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Abstract Bombay/Mumbai has been a primary literary city-space in South Asia from the nineteenth century onwards. Mumbai writing is a repercussion of the metropolitan as an experimental meeting place—and to some extent even melting point—of languages and codes, cultures and religions, traditions and identities in transformation. This chapter tries to identify the religious dimension in metropolitan fiction, providing a survey of relevant writers who publish in Hindi, Urdu, and English. In particular, it focuses on the challenging nature of metropolitan modernity and on the dystopic in two Mumbai novels, namely Sunil Mani’s The City of Devi and Rahman Abbas’s Rohzin. Both novels implicitly and explicitly refer to the language and the imaginary of religion in its manifold forms; both invoke apocalyptic threats and their implications for the individual in love stories woven into complex long fictional narratives.
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Lushenkova Foscolo, Anna V. "Ivan Bunin and David Herbert Lawrence Reading One Another: A Study of the Intertextual Relation in “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”." In I.A. Bunin and his time: Context of Life — History of Work, 557–72. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/ab-978-5-9208-0675-8-557-572.
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The paper is concerned with contacts between Ivan Bunin and David Herbert Lawrence by means of their literary works. Two key points are to be distinguished first: D.H. Lawrence took part in the translation into English of Bunin’s short story “The Gentleman from San Francisco” in 1922; second, in 1941, both Ivan Bunin and Mark Aldanov mentioned the last novel by Lawrence, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, in connection with Bunin’s cycle of short stories, “The Dark Alleys”. This last point has received little comment. Neither of these two facts has been approached altogether in order to investigate the possible traces of these “circular” mutual readings in the works of the two writers. The article shows that their literary works testify of some cases of the intertextual nature. It analyses the echoes of Bunin’s short story “The Gentleman from San Francisco” in Lawrence’s novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”.
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Poos, L. R. "‘Set All Things in a Perfect Order’." In Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England, 1–18. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865113.003.0001.
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Abstract As Ralph Rishton lay on his deathbed in 1573, lawsuits in several courts were pending that would determine the lawfulness of his marriages and the disposition of his property. His deathbed scene—reconstructed from witness testimony in those legal cases—encapsulates many of the dilemmas that make his life a compelling case study in how people of his time, place, and social rank used law. This chapter introduces the themes that shape the remainder of the book. First, legal pluralism: the complex, interconnected nature of the many courts and legal systems through which sixteenth-century English people manoeuvred. Next, law’s stories: the narratives that formed the basis of legal actions, shaped by litigants, witnesses, lawyers, and courts, and how to recover and read them. Finally, participatory governance: the many ways that networks of Tudor-era gentry acted in order to make law operational, and the law consciousness that shaped their perceptions and actions. The chapter then reconstructs the court systems of Lancashire. The Duchy and Palatinate of Lancaster and the new Diocese of Chester during this period are understudied, despite the richness of their surviving records. They reveal one regionally distinctive aspect of the ways in which the English state extended its reach over the course of the 1500s.
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Cohen, Charles L. "Preface." In The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction, 1–6. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190654344.003.0009.
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Abraham is a figure from antiquity; stories about the putative discoverer of the One God contain material that may date from the third millennium bce. His name entered Old English from Hebrew as early as the eleventh century ce, although the term “Abrahamic” did not appear in its original sense—“relating to, or characteristic of the biblical patriarch, Abraham”—until 1699. “Abrahamic” in this book means principally “belonging to the group of religions comprising Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which trace their origin to Abraham,” a twentieth-century usage. This definition updates the commonplace observation that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the “Abrahamic religions”—are somehow closely related. Not everyone likes this expression or its categorical implications. Some scholars object that the term “Abrahamic” can mislead, especially insofar as it may exaggerate the three religions’ similarities and the likelihood that Jews, Christians, and Muslims can set their differences aside. Others regard the categorization itself as incoherent, given adherents’ fundamental divisions over matters such as what scriptures they consider canonical and how they understand God’s nature....
Conference papers on the topic "English Nature stories"
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Voloshina, Ekaterina, Oleg Serikov, and Tatiana Shavrina. "Is neural language acquisition similar to natural? A chronological probing study." In Dialogue. RSUH, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2022-21-550-563.
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The probing methodology allows one to obtain a partial representation of linguistic phenomena stored in the inner layers of the neural network, using external classifiers and statistical analysis. Pre-trained transformer-based language models are widely used both for natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG) tasks making them most commonly used for downstream applications. However, little analysis was carried out, whether the models were pre-trained enough or contained knowledge correlated with linguistic theory. We are presenting the chronological probing study of transformer English models such as MultiBERT and T5. We sequentially compare the information about the language learned by the models in the process of training on corpora. The results show that 1) linguistic information is acquired in the early stages of training 2) both language models demonstrate capabilities to capture various features from various levels of language, including morphology, syntax, and even discourse, while they also can inconsistently fail on tasks that are perceived as easy. We also introduce the open-source framework for chronological probing research, compatible with other transformer-based models. https://github.com/EkaterinaVoloshina/chronological_probing
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Zhu, Lin, Yongkui Li, and Luxia Ouyang. "Constructing a Broader Stakeholder Network with Media Data: An Application of Natural Language Processing." In 11th IPMA Research Conference “Research Resonating with Project Practices”. International Project Management Association – IPMA, Project Management Research Committee (PMRC), China and Hohai University, Nanjing, China, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.56889/umhj7449.
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Megaprojects need to consider a broader set of stakeholders, including external stakeholders. Although this dyadic relationship between the project organization and stakeholders has been widely adopted and is used in stakeholder management studies, the number of studies that incorporate a network view on stakeholders is considerably lower. The quantitative barriers create measurement challenges in understanding the dynamics of relationships among stakeholders in a broader network. To have sufficient observations to conduct empirical studies, one must map the structure of relationships among a large number of relationships among broader stakeholders and assess the level of conflict or cooperation of those ties. In this paper, we propose a method to generate a set of quantitative measures about the structure of relationships among stakeholders and megaprojects. We utilize English-language media articles stored in the Dow Jones Factiva database and apply natural language processing techniques to identify their stakeholders of them and construct a panel dataset of relationships among them. Drawing from methods to analyze social networks, we also construct an undirected graph to describe the stakeholder network of given megaprojects.
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Martynov, Dmitry. "LIU RENHANG AND HERBERT G. WELLS." In 9th International Conference ISSUES OF FAR EASTERN LITERATURES. St. Petersburg State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062049.30.
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Liu Renhang (1885–1938) was known as a Shanghai publicist and propagandist of Buddhism, vegetarianism and non-violence. Having been educated in Japan, he could not establish relations with Zhang Xun and Yan Xishan. He made a long journey to India and Indochina, talked with Rabindranath Tagore. In the 1920s and 1930s, Liu Renhang published over 30 books, mostly translated from Japanese and English. He published translations of L. N. Tolstoy’s short stories, books on hydrotherapy and yoga, and founded the Institute for the Cultivation of Joy in Shanghai (乐天 修养 馆). The main work of his life was Dongfang Datong Xuean in 6 juan, the creation of which was carried out in 1918–1924. The treatise was fully published in Shanghai in 1926, and was reprinted in 1991 and 2014. Its main content was to consider the classical ideals of Xiaokang and Datong, and the possibility of combining ideals with the realities of the modern world. Liu Renhang believed that the ideal of Datong Confucius and Kang Yuwei is fully compatible with Buddhist teachings. During the fifth session of the Central Election Commission of the Kuomintang of the fourth convocation (1934), he tried to announce at the meeting a petition on the introduction of the principle of Great Unity in international relations. In 1938, he created the utopian commune Datong in his native village, and tried to interest Zhou Enlai and Dong Biu with his theories. In the Dongfang Datong Xuean treatise, Liu Renhang introduced the “history of the future”, which was influenced by H. G. Wells’ globalist and Fabian ideas. Liu Renhang directly referred to his novel The War in the Air in conclusion to his own treatise. Like Wells, Liu looked with pessimism on the prospects of modern mankind, and called for the emergence of a “modern Genghis Khan”, who would ruin the world, on the ashes of which the sprout of a new Great Unity would rise.
Reports on the topic "English Nature stories"
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BIZIKOEVA, L. S., and M. I. BALIKOEVA. LEXICO-STYLISTIC MEANS OF CREATING CHARACTERS (BASED ON THE STORY “THE POOL” BY W.S. MAUGHAM). Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2021-13-4-3-62-70.
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Purpose. The article deals with various lexico-stylistic means of portraying a literary character. The analysis is based on the empirical study of the story “The Pool” by a famous English writer William Somerset Maugham. The main methods used in the research are: the method of contextual analysis and the descriptive-analytical method. Results. The results of the research revealed that the peculiar characteristic of the story “The Pool” as well as of many other Maugham’s stories is the author’s strong presence. The portrayal characteristics of the protagonists, their manner of speech, the surrounding nature greatly contribute to creating the unforgettable characters of Lawson and his wife Ethel. Somerset Maugham employs various lexico-stylistic means to create the images of Lawson and Ethel, allowing the reader to vividly portray their personalities. Practical implications. The received results can be used in teaching Stylistics of the English language, stylistic analysis of the text as well as theory and practice of translation, in writing course and graduation papers.