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- Aarelaid-Tart, Aili, et al.
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Baltic biographies at historical crossroads
- 2011
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but strategically well located territories have historically found themselves in the middle of many power struggles between larger states, empires and other power-holders: the Teutonic Knights, Swedish kings, Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union. Today, they are once again forced to stand up to the Russian Federation.Biographical interviewing is a field focused on individuals, and on how those individuals choose to re-create and present their lived lives, make meaning of it through the narratives they tell. To interpret the biographical narrations of Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians, shaped by complex and controversial historical background, the authors use Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of social and cultural capitals, the principles of Erving Goffman’s framing analysis and Alessandro Portelli’s distinction of private and public spheres, Anton Steen’s investigations of post-Socialist elites and Piotr Sztompka’s theory of cultural trauma, etc. Given analyses of particular biographical narrations are supplemented by brief historical and sociological overviews, which allow the reader to better understand the contexts of lived lives, and the mental atmosphere in which the interviews were conducted.
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- Abish, Aynur, 1982-
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Modality in Kazakh as Spoken in China
- 2016
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a comprehensive study on modality in one of the largest Turkic languages, Kazakh, as it is spoken in China. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is furthermore spoken by about one and a half million people in China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and in Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County in Gansu Province.The method employed is empirical, i.e. data-oriented. The modal expressions in Kazakh are analyzed in a theoretical framework essentially based on the works of Lars Johanson. The framework defines semantic notions of modality from a functional and typological perspective. The modal volition, deontic evaluation, and epistemic evaluation express attitudes towards the propositional content and are conveyed in Kazakh by grammaticalized moods, particles and lexical devices. All these categories are treated in detail, and ample examples of their different usages are provided with interlinear annotation. The Kazakh expressions are compared with corresponding ones used in other Turkic languages. Contact influences of Uyghur and Chinese are also dealt with.The data used in this study include texts recorded by the author in 20102012, mostly in the northern regions of Xinjiang, as well as written texts published in Kazakhstan and China. The written texts represent different genres: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and texts published on the Internet. Moreover, examples have been elicited from native speakers of Kazakh and Uyghur. The Appendix contains nine texts recorded by the author in the Kazakh-speaking regions of Xinjiang, China. These texts illustrate the use of many of the items treated in the study.
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- Adams, Ernest, 1960-, et al.
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Fundamentals of Game Design
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- An introductory undergraduate textbook on the design of computer and video games.
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- Adams, Jonathan, 1971-, et al.
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Faroese : A Language Course for Beginners
- 2014. - 3rd revised
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fully revised 3rd edition. The textbook and grammar are bound as one volume. Entirely new chapter (Adams) on the pronunciation of Faroese.
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- Adams, Jonathan, 1971-
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Lessons in Contempt : Poul Ræff’s Translation and Publication in 1516 of Johannes Pfefferkorn’s The Confession of the Jews
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Published in 1516, Poul Ræff's Iudeorum Secreta, a translation of Johannes Pfefferkorn's The Conlession of the Jews, was a landmark in the development of anti-Jewish polemics in Denmark.For the first time, Danes were presented with descriptions of Jewish ceremonies that aimed to portray these practices as dangerously anti-Christian, superstitious and deviating from 'real' Biblical Judaism. Contemporary Judaism is described as a rabbinical construction that is worthy of nothing but ridicule and mockery. Lessons in Contempt explores this key text that comprises a valuable source for a range of academic disciplines: the history of antisemitism, the study of Jewish-Christian relations, social history, the history of religious culture, and medieval and early modern Danish language and literature.This book includes an outline of how Jews were portrayed in medieval Danish vernacular literature; a description of Pfefferkorn's life and works; a discussion of Ræff's translation and publication of Iudeorum Secreta; a presentation of the language and style of the Danish version, as well as an edition of the text together with the Latin original, an English translation and an extensive commentary.
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- Adams, Jonathan, 1971-
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The Revelations of St Birgitta : A Study and Edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian Texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902
- 2015
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- In The Revelations of St Birgitta: A Study and Edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian Texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902, Jonathan Adams offers a detailed analysis of the manuscript and its contents as well as a new edition of this puzzling text. The Birgittine-Norwegian texts are very distinctive from the main Birgittine vernacular corpus of literature and have taxed scholars for decades as to why and for whom they were written.The linguistic study of the manuscript is combined with contextual and historical information in order to reinforce the arguments made and offer explanations within a cultural context. This provides a welcome new dimension to earlier research that has otherwise been pursued to a large degree within a single academic discipline. CONTENTS Table of contentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations I Background 1 St Birgitta and her Revelations1.1 Why St Birgitta?1.2 The life of St Birgitta1.3 The Revelations of St Birgitta (Latin tradition)1.4 The Revelations of St Birgitta (Swedish tradition)1.5 This book 2 Textual history of the vernacular Scandinavian manuscripts2.1 Extant Swedish manuscripts2.1.1 Swedish retranslation2.2 Other Scandinavian manuscripts2.2.1 Old Danish2.2.2 Middle Norwegian2.3 Summary 3 Birgitta and Norway3.1 Towards Nordic union in the fourteenth century: Royalty and the nobility3.2 Birgitta’s own personal contacts with Norway3.3 Birgitta’s family connections with Norway3.4 The Birgittine Movement in Norway and Munkeliv3.5 Summary 4 Summary of previous research into the manuscript4.1 Gustaf E. Klemming4.2 Robert Geete4.3 Knut B. Westman4.4 Vilhelm Gödel4.5 Salomon Kraft4.6 Marius Sandvei4.7 Didrik Arup Seip4.8 Elias Gustaf Adolf Wessén4.9 Lars Wollin4. 10 Lennart Moberg4.11 Hans Torben Gilkær4.12 General evaluation of earlier theories II Manuscript 5 Manuscript description5.1 Date and origin5.2 Provenance5.3 Contents5.4 Make-up and description5.4.1 Foliation5.4.2 Materials and dimensions5.4.3 Quiring5.4.4 Ruling and pricking5.4.5 Catchwords5.5 Script5.5.1 Scribal characteristics5.5.2 Abbreviations5.5.3 Punctuation5.5.4 Hyphenation and Word Division5.5.5 Spacing5.5.6 Rubrics and Guide Letters5.5.7 Marginal Notes5.6 Binding5.7 Damage5.8 Scribal error III Language 6 Lexicon: idiosyncracies, foreign influence, and dialectal forms6.1 Hapax Legomena6.1.1 *drøvuker6.1.2 *iakilse and *iatilse6.1.3 *nidherflytilse6.1.4 *solbadh6.1.5 *spailse6.1.6 *søkiarinna6.1.7 *unsæld6.1.8 *urfamse/orfamse6.1.9 Distribution6.1.10 Discussion6.2 Middle Low German loanwords6.2.1 Unbound Morphemes6.2.2 Bound Morphemes6.2.3 Summary6.3 Latin words and phrases in E 89026.3.1 Adjectives and Common Nouns6.3.2 Proper Nouns6.4 Vadstenaspråk-like, Östgötska, and Danish features 7 Language mixture in medieval Scandinavian manuscripts7.1 Causes of Swedish influence on Norwegian in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries7.1.1 Early definitions7.1.2 The problem of defining “norm” in the context of Old Norwegian 7.1.3 Internal causes of mixture7.1.4 External causes of mixture7.1.5 A diglossic situation in late medieval Norway?7.2. Intentional types of language mixture in medieval Scandinavian manuscripts7.2.1 Terminology7.2.2 Summary7.3 Causes of unintentional language mixture (“interference”) in medieval Scandinavian manuscripts7.3.1 Scribe’s own idiolect7.3.2 Scribe’s own dialect7.3.3 Dialect of the original7.3.4 Dialect of the area7.3.5 Norm of the genre7.3.6 Norm of the scriptorium7.3.7 Audience7.3.8 Summary7.4 Concluding remarks 8 Analysis of language mixture in E 89028.1 The use of statistics in literary research8.2 The diagnostic test features for E 8902 8.2.1 Diagnostic test feature A: Progressive i-mutation8.2.2 Diagnostic test feature B: Itacism8.2.3 Diagnostic test feature C: Diphthongisation8.2.4 Diagnostic test feature D: Monophthongisation8.2.5 Diagnostic test feature E: Vowel merger8.2.6 Diagnostic test feature F: Elision8.2.7 Diagnostic test feature G: Dental assimilation8.2.8 Diagnostic test feature H: First person singular pronoun8.2.9 Diagnostic test feature I: Relative particle8.2.10 Diagnostic test feature J: Anglo-Saxon letter forms8.3 Statistical procedure8.3.1 Total number of occurrences and proportion8.3.2 Rate of occurrence8.3.3 Ellegård’s distinctiveness ratio8.3.4 Testing for significance8.3.5 Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient8.3.6 Summary8.4 Language mixture8.4.1 Findings of the statistical analysis of language mixture8.5 Miscellaneous south-eastern Norwegian Forms8.5.1 The intrusive svarabhakti vowel8.5.2 Metaphony8.5.3 Metathesis of “vr”8.6 Summary of hand mixture types8.6.1 Hand 18.6.2 Hand 28.6.3 Hand 38.6.4 Hand 48.7 Summary of linguistic analysis 9 Conclusion9.1 Summary of aims, methods, and findings9.2 Writing E 8902 9.2.1 Scribes9.2.2 Language9.2.3 Place of composition9.2.4 The manuscript’s place in the Swedish tradition9.3 Contents and audience IV Edition 10 Text and commentary10.1 Editorial procedure10.2 Transcription 11 Commentary, references, and indexes11.1 Commentary and references11.2 Index of names and places in E 8902 BibliographyIndex
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