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This volume is a collection of 21 academic papers selected from the ninth biennial Teaching and Learning Corpora conference that was held at Masaryk University in the summer of 2010. The papers were selected through a double blind reviewing process by the academic committee of the conference. The book deals with a variety of uses of language corpora in foreign or second language teaching and learning, and is divided into four parts. Sections 1 and 2 look at corpora as input, first exploring general issues of how they can inform language teaching, and second describing how this can be put into practice and evaluating concrete uses of corpora with learners. Sections 3 and 4 look at learner corpora as output: this includes comparison with native-speaker corpora to identify ‘errors’ or areas of difficulty, but also shows what learners can and do know at different levels of proficiency, and what this tells us about the learning process.
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The work of one of the most eminent Renaissance humanists of the 15th century, Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472). The book consists of one hundred philosophical or allegorical fables, belonging to a literary genre called an apologue. These short stories contain a moral doctrine, often not stated explicitly, which derives from a told story. The books is the first Polish translation by Włodzimierz Olszaniec, supplemented with an academic commentary and a preface.
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The book "Aleksander Wat: A Form of Life. A Study on Writing, Experience, Presence" concentrates on the issues of special creative writing experience founded on the union and consonance of existential and textual structures. Literature is understood as a formation and a form of life. The first chapter is an attempt to describe a modern literature experience. The primary perspectives concern the writing experience and its influence on the shape and presence of subjectivity. The considerations included in the next two parts are based on a very meticulous reading and interpretation of the two most important works of Aleksander Wat ("JA z jednej strony i JA z drugiej strony mego mopsożelaznego piecyka" and "Pieśni wędrowca"). The last part summarizes the author’s main reflections.
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Languages using a pleremic writing system, from which Chinese is undoubtedly the most widespread, show a much deeper connection between language units and their graphic representations since it involves the semantic dimension. What makes the Chinese writing system a truly unique phenomenon is how its graphics capture the meaning of the represented linguistic unit. This semantic connection was primarily established through graphic components with their own meanings, so-called determinatives. Although their use was primarily associated with an effort to distinguish by graphic means the (often too many) different meanings of one sinogram, the entire system also undoubtedly provides unique insight into how ancient Chinese experienced reality. The semantic diversity of sinograms subordinated to one determinative forms a particular network of contexts with some relationship to the basic concept. This book provides a concise Czech translation of the oldest known study on Chinese grammatology Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Meaning Explanation of Primary Sinograms and Structure Analysis of Secondary Sinograms) which endeavors to reflect on the Chinese writing system as an essential bearer of Chinese culture. Based on the procedures of Chinese cultural linguistics, it adopts the author's determinative-based setting and analyses the so-called semantic profile of all the 540 determinatives by arranging sinograms into groups sharing certain semantic features
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The multi-author book New Russian and Slavic Phraseology examines the diversity of the phraseological dynamics in modern Slavic languages. The authors analysed new processes, such as the emergence of new phraseological units, various changes in invariants of phrasemes and paroemias with reference to phraseological modelling, reactualization of the phraseological corpus elements in Slavic languages in new social climate. The authors studied new processes in modern phraseology in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Macedonian languages, and also used facts from other European languages to complement their analyses.
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The latest volume of OLINCO proceedings is a selected set of sixteen papers that grew from presentations at OLINCO 2023 - the international Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium held at Palacký University in June 2021. The papers collected here are unified by the topic of the colloquium: Language Use and Linguistic Structure, in that they all, in one way or the other, address the central questions of the study of human language. They all use standard scientific methodology and theory and solidly researched empirical evidence in favor of formalized structural representations of the language system.
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The Conference Proceedings comprise the papers presented at the Annual International Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language held on 15th and 16th May 2024.The authors of the papers in the Proceedings are researchers affiliated with the following research institutions in Bulgaria and abroad: Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Veliko Tarnovo University, Bulgaria; Cyril and Methodius Scientific Center at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Sofia University, Bulgaria; Academy of Humanities and Economics, Lodz, Poland; Institute of Linguistics Yorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rossetti at the Romanian Academy of Sciences; Institute for Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Studies, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Slavic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences; V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Odessa National University I. I. Mechnikov, Ukraine; Saarland University, Germany; Saint Petersburg State University, Russia; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland; University of Bucharest, Romania; University of Zagreb, Croatia; University of Tirana, Albania.The papers included in the Proceedings present the current achievements and trends in the research on the Bulgarian language in Bulgaria and around the world, as well as the accomplishments of the Institute’s departments, including the results of work on national and international projects and cooperation with Bulgarian and foreign research centres.
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Available edition Transakcyja wojny chocimskiej by Wacław Potocki is known in two editions. The first was created in 1670 (manuscript of the Ossoliński National Institute, B.O. file no. 1622/II), the second in 1675 (manuscript of the Czartoryski Princes’ Library no. 2079). The current edition is the first edition of the text according to the second edition of this historical epic. The previous full edition based on the first edition edited in 1924 by Aleksander Brückner. The supplementary edition of the introduction and transcription of the text contains historical and linguistic commentaries, a dictionary and an index of persons. The work is a poetic catastrophe from the course of the Chocim War, which in 1621 was fought by the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the effect of the Cossack armies led by Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and after his death by Stanisław Lubomirski and the multinational army of the Ottoman Porte, led by Sultan Osman II. The struggle for a truce and the retreat of the Turkish troops, which is considered a victory of the Republic. The work was created to awaken the knightly spirit in the modern. Initially, the rebirth of the war took place under the scepter of the Piast king, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, who, however, was not sent to the network in it. Successes from the next successive ruler, Jan III Sobieski, defeating the Turks first at Chocim in 1673, and then at Vienna 10 years later.
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The book contains the proceedings of the international conference dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Balkan Studies at the University of Sofia Saint Kliment Ohridski. The contributors present their studies in the field of the Balkan linguistics, Balkan literatures and Balkan cultures.
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The book focuses on the publication of entries documenting admissions to urban law in Sieradz between 1475 and 1539. The main part of the book consists of a critical edition of the source text—a printed version of the Latin text transcribed from the manuscript and carefully edited.
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