Languages and Cultures in Contact and Contrast: Historical
and Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by Stavroula Varella
ISBN: 978-960-85411-0-8,
352 pages
First
published in 2011 by ATINER
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Table
of Contents
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1. |
Languages and
Cultures in Contact and Contrast: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives: An
Introduction Stavroula Varella |
1 |
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Section A: Language Evolution, Continuity and Contact:
Historical and Formal Aspects |
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2. |
Indo-European
Influence on Finnic Colour Naming and Categorisation Vilja Oja and Mari Uusküla |
7 |
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3. |
Transitional
Stage of Bengali Language: An Overview Sunandan Kumar Sen |
19 |
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4. |
Who is
Long-Distance Anaphors (LDRs) Mr./Ms.
Right? Competition between Syntactic
Cues and Pragmatic Cues Dong-Bo Hsu |
31 |
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5. |
Morphological Effects on Pali
Gemination Benjamin Schmeiser |
45 |
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Section B: Languages in Contact: Contemporary Issues |
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6. |
Performances
on Reading Multiple Choice Tests, Written Expression, and Summarizing Task Mojgan Jamshidi Alashti |
57 |
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7. |
The Problem with Vocabulary Strength:
Revisiting the Hierarchy of Knowledge of Word Meaning Kenneth Chua and Jyu-fang
Yu |
71 |
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8. |
Features Promoting Intercultural
Communicative Competence in Greek Public and Private Primary Textbooks Charoula Gkioka |
93 |
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9. |
On the
Role of Multiple Intelligences in Listening Proficiency and Attitudes among Ma’ssoumeh Bemani Naeini and
Ambigapathy Pandian |
107 |
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10. |
Developing
Conversational Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom: The Role of
Teachers’ Interactive Skills Dorota Anna Nowacka |
119 |
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11. |
Anxiety
in the Foreign Language Class Caroline Akinyi Oyugi |
133 |
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12. |
European
Portuguese (EP) versus Brazilian Portuguese (BP): Its Challenges in L2
Portuguese Undergraduate Courses Sónia Maria Nunes Reis |
149 |
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13. |
Language Specialized Translators
vs. Subject-Field Specialized Translators: A Study of Technical, Scientific
and Subject-External Term Translation El-Hussein Aly |
157 |
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14. |
Formal Characteristics of
Code-switching in Electronic Communication (The Case of Polish and English) Marta Dąbrowska |
171 |
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15 |
The
Place of East European Researchers in International Discourse: Critical
Discourse Analysis Applied to Corpora from Specialised Journals Elena Tarasheva |
189 |
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Section C: Cultures in Contact and Contrast:
Historical and Comparative Investigations |
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16. |
Societies
without Epics – The Lost Literatures of the Early Cultures on the Karin Tikkanen |
201 |
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17. |
‘Callimachus’ Hymn
to Demeter: Traditional Hymn or Invective? Naomi Kaloudis |
211 |
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18. |
Midnight
Soliloquys: Poetic Parallels in Classical Tamil and
Greek Lyric Anne David |
223 |
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19. |
Invulnerability
in Greek and Persian Mythology: A Comparative Study of Achilles and Esfandiar Mohammad Ghazanfari |
231 |
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20. |
From
the Text to Performance: Ancient Greek Drama and Brazilian Carnival Marcus Mota |
239 |
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21. |
Greek, Roman, Hebrew and Byzantine
Interpretations of Light and its Origins Chris Alexander
Webb |
245 |
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22. |
Frontiers of Comparative Literature Irma Ratiani |
255 |
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Section D: Cultures in Contact and Contrast: Studies
in Contemporary Criticism |
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23. |
The
Gnostic Aspects of Shahnameh Nahid Jafari |
263 |
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24. |
The Sadness
in Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Poems Nicoleta Călina |
267 |
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25. |
Democratic
Thoughts and Ideas in the Neo-Vaisnavite Literature
of Satyakam Borthakur |
275 |
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26. |
The Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
or the Giving Up of the Soul Salvation Rui Coimbra Gonçalves |
287 |
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27. |
Herman Melville’s Art in Typee Harumi Hirano |
295 |
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28. |
The Spaces of Postmodern
Exile: Dimitris Hatzis’ Diplo Vivlio Gerasimus Katsan |
305 |
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29. |
Intertextuality in T Mofolo’s Novel, Chaka VSM Moeketsi
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313 |
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30. |
Alice
Walker’s The Color Purple: A Quest for One’s Voice Sharareh Sharifi Yazdi |
321 |
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31. |
The Study of Poetical Trends in Contemporary
Persian Literature Mehyar Alavi Moghaddam |
331 |