Demotic Palaeography

2020 ◽  
pp. 604-617
Author(s):  
Joachim Quack ◽  
Jannik Korte ◽  
Fabian Wespi ◽  
Claudia Maderna-Sieben
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Research History ◽  
Text Types

This chapter covers all aspects of Demotic palaeography. It deals with its research history and names its most important tools. Palaeographic methodology and issues of sign definition are discussed from a Demotic point of view. The problems of classifying Demotic scribal hands and assigning them to chronologically and topographically defined palaeographic stages are addressed. The chapter furthermore discusses the influence of text types, palaeographic “registers,” and scribal schools on sign shapes as well as the interactions between Demotic and other Egyptian scripts. It addresses the categorization of the Demotic signs and also orthography.

"Om Alle Menschen Wel Te Leren Sterven"

1986 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-179
Author(s):  
E.J.G. Lips
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
The Masses

AbstractThe genre of the Ars moriendi is by no means a homogeneous one. Indeed, the great textual diversity has more than once attracted the attention. This diversity, caused by various omissions and, more often, extensions in the original text-types, is often considered as the decay of an originally orthodox theological genre. In this essay, manuscripts and printed versions of the Ars moriendi in the Dutch language ( ± 1450-1530) are studied. Instead of considering the omissions and extensions meant above as a decline of the genre, the author attempts to regard them, as the medieval writers may have done, as means to make the texts find their way to the public more easily. Various methods used by the authors of these Artes to reach their public, are examined and their presumable succes is evaluated. It seems that, whereas particularly the older literature assumes an almost infinite public, recent research does not confirm this point of view. For, in spite of explicit remarks addressed to all christians, commerce dictated to the printers a more or less wealthy public. As for the manuscripts, these seem mainly to have had a public of clergy and (female) religious communities. However, considering the existence of a public of listeners, both manuscripts and printed versions had, in an indirect way, their impact on the masses of the christians.

'Breaking' and formation of hydrogen bonds by proton donor anesthetics

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (18) ◽  
pp. 3211-3217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Massuda ◽  
C. Sandorfy
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Atom ◽  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Electron Acceptor ◽  
Proton Donor ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mobile Hydrogen ◽  
Competitive Mechanism ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Anesthetic Potency ◽  
Mobile Hydrogen Atom

It has been shown previously that halofluorocarbons having anesthetic potency hinder the formation of hydrogen bonds (HB) of the [Formula: see text] types and it has been suggested that this is linked to a competitive mechanism involving another type of association. Since some of the most potent and widely used fluorocarbon anesthetics contain a mobile hydrogen atom the question arises if in such molecules the competitive mechanism involves the formation of HB's with the anesthetic as the proton donor instead of, or in addition to, association due to the electron acceptor properties of the higher halogens as seems to be the case for those fluorocarbon anesthetics which contain no hydrogen. Chloroform, halothane, methoxyflurane, enflurane, and 4,5-dichloro-2,2-difluoro-l,3-dioxolane have been studied from this point of view with the result that both mechanisms appear to operate.

The continuity of topics in journal and travel texts

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Jesús Moya Guijarro
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Relative Clauses ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Text Types ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Special Language

Following a functional view of topic as a discourse, cognitive and contextually-referential notion, independent of special language-systematic coding (Cornish 2004), this paper aims to study topic continuity strategies (Givón 1983, 1995; Dik 1997) in news items and tourist brochures. The empirical analysis carried out reveals that the two subgenres show different relative frequencies of linguistic resources for maintaining topic continuity. While in the news items the use of active voice (25.4%) and anaphoric proforms (20.4%) are the prototypical strategies for topic continuity, in the tourist brochures nominals preceded by definite articles, possessives or demonstratives (24.1%), and proper nouns (12.3%) are the most commonly used resource for maintaining a topical referent alive in the discourse. From a lexico-grammatical perspective significant differences have also been established in the utilization of zero anaphora and nominalizations (the latter being found only in the news items). From a syntactic point of view, the use of relative clauses and passive structures is also distinct in the two text types. Inversions and imperative clauses are exclusive to the tourist brochures. The use of specific linguistic strategies and their different frequencies seem to be basically determined both by the emphasis or semantic prominence the writer wishes to give to the informative segment he is referring to, and by the particular communicative purpose of each of the two subgenres under study.

scholarly journals Using Genre Theory for teaching writing at tertiary level: a practical example of teaching to write effective recounts

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Martínez-Lirola
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Text Types ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

<p><span lang="EN-GB">The study reported in this paper focuses on the use of Genre Theory as an appropriate framework for English L2 writing in the subject English Language III of the degree course in English Studies. We analysed 115 recounts written by students on this course at the University of Alicante (Spain) after they had studied different text types following Genre Theory. </span><span lang="EN-GB">This Theory was applied in order to increase students’ literacy skills through the study of text types and specific grammatical characteristics that appear in these texts. This study will show that using the Theory of Genre as a framework to teach academic writing helped students to improve their writing skills.<strong> </strong>The results of the texts analysed suggest that exposing students to good models of different text types, paying special attention to recounts, and asking them to write texts based on these models, improves students’ texts from the grammatical and the textual point of view.</span></p>

Legal Interpreting and Social Discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 500-520
Author(s):  
Mira Kadrić
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Text Types ◽  
International Regulations ◽  
Democratic Ideals

Legal interpreting covers a broad spectrum of interpreting activities related to law. This chapter takes a sociopolitical point of view to discuss interpreting in legal matters in judicial as well as extrajudicial settings. Based on international regulations and democratic ideals, it shows the importance of interpreting for equal access to law, with a focus on the possibilities and scope of action available to interpreters rather than the restrictions. By presenting the legal activities and text types that occur, the chapter develops strategies for interpreters for use in different settings and situations to ensure the best possible communication for all participants. In this context, the chapter also addresses the demand for multipartiality and equiproximity between the interpreter and the other participants in the communication process.

scholarly journals Special features of the heading complex in the novel “Imaginary Interlocutor” by O. Savych

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Universal Function ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Character System ◽  
Text Types

The article presents an analysis of the heading complex in the novel by I. Savych “Imaginary Interlocutor”. The author of the article analyses and classifies the headings of the novel: the general title and the titles of its eighteen chapters. The main principle of the classification is correlated with the traditional components of the text: thematic content, problems, plot, character system, details, time and space, etc. under analysis is also “the energy” of the headings: connection of the whole novel and its chapters with other works of Russian and foreign literature of different times. The other aspect of the analysis of the novel discussed is epigraph which functions in several coupling systems: with the novel context, with the text of the novel and its chapters, with different epigraphs. The author of the research considers communicative types and functions (informative and form-meaning ones) of epigraphs in literary interpretation. In O. Savych’s novel meaningful information of the epigraph is a prospective message concerning thematic, plot and conceptual moments of the book. Special attention is paid to the form-building function in the text. Types of the epigraphs in the novel are different according to the source. Epigraph, as an element of O. Savych’s text is multifunctional. Its main and universal function is dialogical: epigraph is one of ways to make a monologue dialogical, to present a different from the author’s point of view. Thus, the system of the author’s thought, their literary orientation are revealed. While the division of the novel into 18 chapters gives to the novel the character of completeness, enhances its inner unity, epigraphs outline the open character of the text borders. The analysis of the heading complex allows to make some conclusions about the nature of O. Savych’s book and its place in Russian literature of 1920 – 1930 years.

Doing sex research: History, methods and ethical criticalities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2015) ◽  
pp. 6-22
Author(s):  
Alessandro Porrovecchio
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Sex Research ◽  
Research History ◽  
The Mediterranean

This article surveys empirical studies in sexuality from the point of view of a researcher schooled in Europe and the Mediterranean. It provides a survey of a sample of studies from Kinsey onward to provide a framing of the methodological and ethical problems that empirical studies in sexuality face, concluding with a discussion of online and virtual research opportunities.

The Geosciences Applied to Lunar Exploration

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 169-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Green
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
Probable Mechanism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lunar Exploration ◽  
Geological Model ◽  
Apply Geophysics ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
The Impact

The term geo-sciences has been used here to include the disciplines geology, geophysics and geochemistry. However, in order to apply geophysics and geochemistry effectively one must begin with a geological model. Therefore, the science of geology should be used as the basis for lunar exploration. From an astronomical point of view, a lunar terrain heavily impacted with meteors appears the more reasonable; although from a geological standpoint, volcanism seems the more probable mechanism. A surface liberally marked with volcanic features has been advocated by such geologists as Bülow, Dana, Suess, von Wolff, Shaler, Spurr, and Kuno. In this paper, both the impact and volcanic hypotheses are considered in the application of the geo-sciences to manned lunar exploration. However, more emphasis is placed on the volcanic, or more correctly the defluidization, hypothesis to account for lunar surface features.

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