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Cavill, Paul. "Maxims in Old English poetry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1996. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11063/.

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The focus of the thesis is on maxims and gnomes in Old English poetry, but the occasional occurrence of these forms of expression in Old English prose and in other Old Germanic literature is also given attention, particularly in the earlier chapters. Chapters 1 to 3 are general, investigating a wide range of material to see how and why maxims were used, then to define the forms, and distinguish them from proverbs. The conclusions of these chapters are that maxims are ‘nomic’, they organise experience in a conventional, authoritative fashion. They are also ‘proverbial’ in the sense of being rec

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Sprinkle, Joel Charles Andrew. "Wicing Sceal on Waelstowe: The Viking Maxim in The Battle of Maldon." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73667.

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In The Battle of Maldon, the valor of the English who fight is never in question. The infamy of the cowards who flee is evident. The way the poet views the Vikings, however, is slightly less obvious. The poet treats all characters who act within the contract of battle with a sort of biased equanimity—of course, the English are portrayed as more heroic and sympathetic, but the Vikings are referred to in a practical manner as seafarers or warriors. It is my contention that the Maldon poet treats the Vikings as natural parts of the battlefield, as if they had their own maxim pairing and were

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Cocco, Gabriele. "The Old English Gnomic Poems Maxims I and Maxims II in the Exeter Book and MS. Cotton Tiberius B.i: A Critical Edition with a Variorum Commentary." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3422262.

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Gnomic poetry plays a fundamental part of the so-called Old English Wisdom Literature. The Anglo-Saxons showed a strong tendency to inspect, wonder about, and ponder on the primary aspects of human thought, life and essence. This frame of mind is characterised by sequences of concise, tightly-structured proverbial utterances. Such briefness endows gnomic poetry with a sharp, authoritative force. The Anglo-Saxon scop turns to a gnome, maxim, proverb, laconic, sententious saying to compose alliterative verses on native folklore and traditional patterns of thinking. In Old English literature, g

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Dornerus, Emma. "Breaking maxims in conversation : A comparative study of how scriptwriters break maxims in Desperate Housewives and That 70’s Show." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-19.

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<p>When we converse we constantly fail to observe the rules of conversation in order to simplify and make dialogues more effective. The scriptwriters who work with TV shows use non-observances of maxims in order to evoke different feelings from their viewers. The aim of this paper was to investigate how frequently non-observances of maxims occurred in the TV shows Desperate Housewives and That 70’s Show. I examined where and why they were used as well as how often flouting was used compared to violations. The base of the study was a drama and a comedy show.</p><p>Research has shown that the ma

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Zor, Bayram Mustafa. "Using Grice." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607724/index.pdf.

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Coherence in written discourse has been a problematic concept for many English Language Teachers when teaching to write in English. It is considered as a crucial part of academic written discourse, which students are expected to master to be able to pursue their academic studies. This study aims to examine how much the coherence-related difficulties/problems of Turkish EFL students in writing English essays are related to writing Turkish essays. The subjects for this study were chosen from the upper-intermediate level students at the Preparatory Program of Istanbul Bilgi University. For a deta

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Degoute, Mathias. "Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld en anglais : pour une linguistique de l’aphorisme." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040032/document.

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Cette thèse porte sur les traductions anglaises des Maximes de La Rochefoucauld et explore par ce prisme les propriétés linguistiques, pragmatiques et stylistiques de ces énoncés autonomes que sont les aphorismes. Notre étude compare la maxime à d’autres types d’aphorismes tels que les proverbes, adages, dictons et autres mots d’esprit que l’on trouve aussi dans la littérature anglophone. Une réflexion sur la forme des maximes est menée au travers de deux approches. L’une, contrastive, compare la version originale du livre de La Rochefoucauld à huit de ses versions anglaises. Une analyse des é

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Furner, Emily Kay. "Cultural Differences in Russian and English Magazine Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6730.

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Many American companies looking to increase sales and achieve growth targets consider expanding the reach of their product lines to other countries. However, expansion on a global scale often requires much trial and error as English-speaking companies try to market their goods to a foreign audience. In order to ease this process, localization experts are often hired to "localize" or change advertisements in order to make them more culturally relevant to consumers. Because the field of localization is relatively new, there is little research done on the degree and extent to which advertisements

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Hals, Elisabeth. "IrRelevant and Chaotic or Indeed Relatively Cooperative? : A Gricean comparison of chatroom and face-to-face interaction." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-739.

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<p>Chatroom conversations often elicit an initial impression of chaos. This is probably chiefly due to disrupted adjacency sequences, but also a result of the language being rich in non-standard linguistic forms and grammar. This study explores chatroom conversations with reference to Grice’s (1975) cooperative principle and the maxims that accompany it, and compares them to real life conversations. The aim is to see whether they differ from real life conversations to the extent expected, and whether these differences give rise to any compensational strategies to ensure successful communicatio

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Dekavalla, Georgia. "Terror and Evil in Iraq : A Study of Political Discourse." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2631.

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<p>Abstract</p><p>This paper aims to determine the validity of the hypothesis that the effective and eloquent use of language can result in shaping beliefs and altering people’s perception of certain phenomena. In order to explore this hypothesis, a speech given by George W. Bush concerning the Iraq war is examined, followed by a brief study of two corpora, the Time Magazine Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English, where the collocationpatterns of the words Iraq, evil and terror are examined. The paper starts by presenting the main concepts upon which this study is based, i.e. m

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Barnett, Michelle. "Phytoplankton communities of subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the summer stratified waters of the Western English Channel." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/427043/.

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In the summer stratified temperate shelf waters of the Western English Channel, a subsurface chlorophyll maximum (SCM) is typically observable within the seasonal thermocline. Surveys were conducted in these summer (June/July) stratified waters from 2013 to 2016 investigating SCM phytoplankton communities. A SeaBird CTD with fluorometer and Niskin rosette sampler was routinely used to collect water column profiles and discrete water samples, and an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measured current profiles. In 2013 SCM thin layers (SCMTL; < 5 m thick) and broader SCM were studied in de

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Neil, Bronwen, and res cand@acu edu au. "A Critical Edition of Anastasius Bibliothecarius' Latin Translation of Greek Documents Pertaining to the Life of Maximus the Confessor, with an Analysis of Anastasius' Translation Methodology, and an English Translation of the Latin Text." Australian Catholic University. Sub-Faculty of Theology, 1998. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp231.30042010.

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Part I Anastasius Bibliothecarius, papal librarian, translator and diplomat, is one of the pivotal figures of the ninth century in both literary and political contexts. His contribution to relations between the eastern and western church can be considered to have had both positive and negative ramifications, and it will be argued that his translations of various Greek works into Latin played a significant role in achieving his political agenda, complex and convoluted as this was. Being one of relatively few Roman bilinguals in the latter part of the ninth century, Anastasius found that his lin

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Jones, Mary-Ellen. "It's an Irish Lullaby: One Story of Hyphenated American Culture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1911.

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Joss, Elizabeth. "Translocation and female subjectivities in four contemporary narratives : Kingston’s The woman warrior, Magona’s To my children’s children and Forced to grow and Hoffman’s Lost in translation." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2253.

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Thesis (MA (English Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Drawing on theories of gender and subjectivity, this thesis explores the way in which constructions of modernity as well as tradition are mapped onto geographical localities and thus expressed through gender acts. The female protagonists in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Sindiwe Magona’s To My Children’s Children and Forced to Grow, as well as Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation undergo either transnational translocation or imagined translocation where they straddle multiple cultural contexts co

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Гуменюк, Інна Леонідівна, та Inna Leonidivna Humeniuk. "Варіювання максимуму інтенсивності та його локалізація в міських англомовних пейзажних описах". Київ, КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського, 2018. http://repository.sspu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8817.

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У тезах доповіді подано результати акустичного аналізу, який є одним із етапів експериментального дослідження у фонетиці.<br>У праці подано результати акустичного аналізу як етапу експериментального фонетичного дослідження просодичних засобів реалізації англомовних міських пейзажних описів. Методика експерименту розроблена згідно вимог сучасної фонетики, класифікації англомовних пейзажних описів та методики, запропонованої автором.За результатами акустчного аналізу автор виокремив варіації максимуму інтенсивності та її локалізації в англомовних міських пейзажних описах.<br>The paper offers the

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Neil, Bronwen. "A critical edition of Anastasius Bibliothecarius' Latin Translation of Greek Documents Pertaining to the Life of Maximus the Confessor, with an analysis of Anastasius' translation methodology, and an english translation of the latin text." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 1998. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/060a859e30f8baedc8e33f7bbe0f1d6e1bf4693e45c6968b08798508651f4009/18880824/65024_downloaded_stream_249.pdf.

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Part I Anastasius Bibliothecarius, papal librarian, translator and diplomat, is one of the pivotal figures of the ninth century in both literary and political contexts. His contribution to relations between the eastern and western church can be considered to have had both positive and negative ramifications, and it will be argued that his translations of various Greek works into Latin played a significant role in achieving his political agenda, complex and convoluted as this was. Being one of relatively few Roman bilinguals in the latter part of the ninth century, Anastasius found that his lin

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Arthur, Jason G. "Thinking locally provincialism and cosmopolitanism in American literature since the Great Depression /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4823.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on January 29, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Liu, Lu. "Three Essays on Environmental- and Spatial-Based Valuation of Urban Land and Housing." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/726.

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This dissertation attempts to provide a comprehensive examination on the non-market valuation of the effect of open space amenities and local public infrastructure on the value of urban land and housing with both spatial heterogeneity and project heterogeneity. The demand for raw land is a derived demand for housing built on it. Therefore, we need to examine the land market and the housing market together. On the one hand, we estimate the value of urban land in a market that does not satisfy the usual assumptions of a competitive market structure as well as incentive incompatibility issues f

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Modzelewski, Ann Shirley. "Internal dialogues: Construction of the self in The Woman Warrior." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2468.

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This thesis considers past autobiographical theory and questions whether it addresses the autobiography of the female writer. Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Margaret Sanger, and Maxine Hong Kingston are examined to reveal their polyvocality, use of the autobiographical "I", and rhetorical strategies maintained in order to create a close relationship with the reader. Particular attention is paid to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and Sidonie Smith's autobiographical "I."

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Roscoe, Brett. "Sagacious Liminality: The Boundaries of Wisdom in Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12183.

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This dissertation examines the relationship between wisdom and identity in Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature. At present, the study of medieval wisdom is largely tangential to the study of proverbs and maxims. This dissertation makes wisdom its primary object of study; it sees wisdom not just as a literary category, but also as a cultural discourse found in texts not usually included in the wisdom canon. I therefore examine both wisdom literature and wisdom in literature. The central characteristic of wisdom, I argue, is its liminality. The biblical question “Where is wisdom to be

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Cuellar, Alejandro E. "The Legend of Hugo el Maximo." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/444.

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Roberto and his family moved to the United States from his native El Salvador after his older brother drowned on a desolate beach. As an adult, he returns to that same beach to reconcile with what his brother’s death has meant to his life and what he missed out on by being raised as an American. On that beach, he encounters Laurencio, an old fisherman who seems to empathize with Roberto and shares with him the legend of Hugo el Maximo, also a fisherman who was dragged away by the ocean but resurfaces and endures a difficult journey as he returns to his village. Entranced by the legend, Roberto

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Kavínová, Martina. "Převod (ne)zdvořilosti při tlumočení." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-340408.

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While the linguistic concept of politeness has been thoroughly analyzed, the same does not apply to its interpreting. The present theoretical-empirical work describes the means for expressing politeness grouped by G. Leechʼs maxims of politeness. The empirical part analyzes recordings of simultaneous interpretation from media and European Parliament settings. This is a quantitative study and the outcome is the number of means for expressing politeness which the interpreters conveyed into Czech. On average and in all of the material 65,7 % of means for expressing politeness were conveyed into C

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"Apply syntactic features in a maximum entropy framework for English and Chinese reading comprehension." Thesis, 2008. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6074652.

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Automatic reading comprehension (RC) systems integrate various kinds of natural language processing (NLP) technologies to analyze a given passage and generate or extract answers in response to questions about the passage. Previous work applied a lot of NLP technologies including shallow syntactic analyses (e.g. base noun phrases), semantic analyses (e.g. named entities) and discourse analyses (e.g. pronoun referents) in the bag-of-words (BOW) matching approach. This thesis proposes a novel RC approach that integrates a set of NLP technologies in a maximum entropy (ME) framework to estimate can

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I-chen, Lee, and 李宜臻. "Maxine Greene's Perspectives on Aesthetic Education and its Implications for Senior High School's English Education." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45806707967252411726.

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碩士<br>國立彰化師範大學<br>教育研究所<br>100<br>This study is dedicated to analyzing Maxine Greene’s perspectives on aesthetic education and its implications for senior high school’s English education. The study adapts the hermeneutic method to inquire Greene’s theory and its educational implications. The main purposes of this study are as follows:1. Stating Greene’s academic life and ideology. 2. Researching and reviewing the main meanings of Greene’s perspectives on aesthetic education. 3.Interpreting its implications for senior high school’s English education. Conclusions of this study are as follows: 1.

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Xaba, Andile. "Temporality and the past: recollections of apartheid in selected South African novels in English." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19242.

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The study provides a theoretical account for the representation of apartheid in South African fiction. Narrative strategies employed in the post-apartheid novels The innocence of roast chicken (Richards, 1996), The smell of apples (Behr, 1996), All we have left unsaid (Case, 2006) and Thirteen cents (Duiker, 2011) reveal that depictions of the past contribute to narrative structure and the production of meaning. Genettean temporal relations, namely narrative order, duration and frequency are a systematic method to analyse the selected novels, since it enables a contrast between the narrative p

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