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ItemIntroduction: Postcolonial realms of memory in the francophone world(Liverpool University Press, 2016-01-06)In September 2020, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced plans to unveil a statute of Solitude, a former slave who fought against the French reinstatement of slavery in Guadeloupe in 1802. Solitude was arrested during the revolt, sentenced to death, and hanged. The inauguration of a statue in her memory would constitute the first statue of a black woman to be put up in the French capital.
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ItemLD Tools and Methods Summit Report( 2016)This document provides an overview of the main points arising from discussion at the Language Documentation Tools and Methods Summit (http://bit.ly/LDsummit2016) held at the University of Melbourne on 1-3 June 2016 and convened by Nick Thieberger and Simon Musgrave for the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, funded by the Australian Research Council. Invited participants were asked to consider key issues that were pre-circulated and then prepare discussion points for the meeting. Each theme leader took notes and they are summarised below, with links to the original notes also provided below. There is necessarily some overlap between the reports on group discussions.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe AICCM Bulletin, Volume 37. 1(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2016-08-26)
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Item«Дом для Кузьки». Анимация в обучении русскому языку детей-билингвов 6–7 лет (развивающий урок)(Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, 2014)The following article deals with the method of employing animated cartoon at preschool and primary school level for teaching Russian language and culture to bilingual children. An example of a developmental lesson for children of 6–7 years of age based on the animated cartoon “A house for Kuzka” is presented here.
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ItemThree readings of M.Bulgakov's play 'Ivan Vasilievich'(Sokolova M.V., 2016)This article considers three readings of Bulgakov’s play ‘Ivan Vasilievich’. The first occurred in 1930s when the play was banned by Soviet censors. At that time, it would have contained much symbolism and meaning for the readers, who, like those in the play, were trapped in an oppressive dictatorship. A second reading – an interpretation of ‘Ivan Vasilievich’ occurred when the comedy ‘Ivan Vasilievich changes profession’ – based on Bulgakov’s play was filmed by the Soviet director Leonid Gaidai in 1973. Through this reading symbols and allusions drawn by Bulgakov became known to millions of Soviet citizens. A third reading considers the contemporary Russian language speaker, who today quotes Bulgakov’s and Gaidai’s lines from ‘Ivan Vasilievich’ and its’ adaptation in day-to-day life. This article will hereafter refer to these phrases as ‘winged phrases’ – they have taken flight from their original source and embedded themselves in vernacular speech.
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ItemNasal aerodynamics and coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: Smoothing Spline Analysis of Variance(ASSTA, 2016-12-06)Nasal phonemes are well represented within the lexicon of BininjKunwok.1 Thisstudyexaminesintervocalic,wordmedial nasals and reports patterns of coarticulation using a Smooth- ing Spline Analysis of Variance (SSANOVA). This allows for detailed comparisons of peak nasal airflow across six female speakers of the language. Results show that in a VNV sequence there is very little anticipatory vowel nasalisation and greater carryover into a following vowel. The maximum peak nasal flow is delayed for coronals when compared to the onset of oral closure in the nasal, indicating a delayed velum opening gesture. The velar place of articulation is the exception to this pattern with some limited anticipatory nasalisation. The SSANOVA has shown to be an appropriate technique for quantifying these patterns and dynamic speech data in general.
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ItemProsa australiana(Intercultural Studies Group, 2010)
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ItemA usability framework for speech recognition technologies in clinical handover: A pre-implementation study(SPRINGER, 2014-06)A multi-disciplinary research team is undertaking a trial of speech-to-text (STT) technology for clinical handover management. Speech-to-text technologies allow for the capture of handover data from voice recordings using speech recognition software and systems. The text documents created from this system can be used together with traditional handover notes and checklists to enhance the depth and breadth of data available for clinical decision-making at the point of care and so improve patient care and reduce medical errors. This paper reports on a preliminary study of perceived usability by nurses of speech-to-text technology based on interviews at a "test day" and using a user-task-technology usability framework to explore expectations of nurses of the use of speech-to-text (STT) technology for clinical handover. The results of this study will be used to design field studies to test the use of speech-to-text (STT) technologies at the point of care in several hospital settings.
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ItemState-Society Trust in Sino-Brazilian Agriculture(Springer, 2015)As Chinese cities edge toward projections of one billion residents by 2025, they are generating unprecedented demand for food. Ambitions to meet this demand with domestic production are still far from reality, prompting Chinese agriculture enterprises to buy and invest overseas. This article examines the consequences for Brazil, which in 2013 provided 45 % of China’s soybean imports. It finds that diverging traditions of state-society trust have provoked Brazilian uncertainties about the objectives and management practices of investing Chinese actors. It concludes that successful “South-South” relations between China and Brazil will require fresh approaches to trust between state and society that break with previous development theory and practice.
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Item'Adjacent worlds': An analysis of a genre at the intersection of academic and professional communities(ELSEVIER, 2016-06)Two concepts - genre and discourse community - have been at the core of discussions about language and learning within the disciplines since John Swales integrated the two into ESP pedagogy. While in his earlier work, Swales (1990) proposed a relationship of genres 'belonging' to discourse communities, he later (e.g. 1998) understood discourse communities as sometimes cohering around genres, suggesting a more open-ended relationship between the concepts. This paper takes up the issue of this relationship, and reports on a recurrent event in architecture education. The data is drawn from a project on postgraduate design studio pedagogy at a major Australian university. The focus was the weekly activities in a studio taught by a senior academic. Working primarily within a rhetorical genre framework, this paper explores the desk-crit genre from two angles - its evolution over time and its performance in a contemporary studio session. The paper shows how a 'situated genre analysis' contributes to an understanding of the interconnections, tensions, different discourses of the academic and professional architecture communities, characterized in this paper as 'adjacent worlds'. The paper concludes that this type of analysis helps us understand genre as a space in which multiple discourse communities interact.