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The album’s creation, apparently, took inspiration from the medieval alchemical process of chrysopeia – artificially turning ...
Like father, like daughter: Tannen says her dad was “very attuned to ways of speaking.” Photograph courtesy of Deborah Tannen ...
The study confirms the fundamental assumption in conceptual metaphor theory that metaphors are enduring linguistic and cognitive structures, not merely rhetorical figures. Using complex systems tools, ...
Tests of a Statistical Explanation of the Rank-Frequency Relation for Words in Written English George A. Miller and Edwin B. Newman The American Journal of Psychology , pp. 209-218 (10 pages) ...
Words aren't simply sounds connected to meanings, but involve a hidden "middle layer" that might unlock a deeper ...
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Putting the English Reformation on the Map: The Prothero Lecture, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 75-95 ...
Fri 6 and Sat 7, 9am-5pm: The Tenth International Language Assessment Conference in Egypt (ILACE) is offered by the British Council and the American University in Cairo (AUC). ILACE is a two-day ...
Apostrophe misuseWhy take a gap year? Mental health in the workplace Is it a good idea to have a tattoo? Introduction A retired journalist who founded a campaign to preserve the correct use of the ...
We present a new method for synthesizing high-resolution photo-realistic images from semantic label maps using conditional generative adversarial networks (conditional GANs). Conditional GANs have ...
Primates - the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans - first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously ...
Dates, tickets, info • Guided English Tour “On Displaying Violence: First Exhibitions on the Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945-1948” • Deutsches Historisches Museum• Order tickets online or by telephone ...
Saturday, 30/August/2025 14:00• Deutsches Historisches Museum • Guided English Tour “On Displaying Violence: First Exhibitions on the Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945-1948”.