Search results for "Biographies"
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Hell on earth: Textual reflections on the experience of mental illness
2012
Background: Some people who by themselves or by others are understood as having mental health problems have written autobiographies about their experiences. Aims: The aim of this study is to explore how people write about their experiences of being mentally ill. Method: Twelve Scandinavian autobiographies were studied using content analysis based on phenomenology and hermeneutics. Results: Three themes were identified: feeling like a stranger in life and places, the transformation of life experiences into questions of disease and feeling ashamed. Conclusions: People’s experiences of being mentally ill might be understood as the result of medical constructions unsuitable for the persons them…
Youngtimers : a sociology of contemporary relations to oldcars
2022
If this was not still the case 50 years ago, the automobile is today an essential capital good for a majority of French households. For a majority of individuals, and in a context of increasing urbanization, mobility is in fact essential for individuals who have to move here for their work, there for their leisure, or even to multiple places of consumption or sociability. . Everywhere, in cities as in the countryside, the automobile has established itself as the main mode of daily transport. The generalization of car ownership has thus modified the way of life of individuals as well as all the stages of professional and family life, and to put it simply, contemporary urban society presuppos…
Iewehrojami latweeschi: skizes un atzerejumi [Ievērojami latvieši]
1887
Saturs: Priekšvārds -- Cimzes tēvs -- Krogzemju Mikus (Auseklis) -- J. Pilsātnieks -- Krišjānis Kalniņš -- Juris Alunāns -- Fr. Treulands (Fr. Brīvzemnieks) -- virsnieks Andrejs Pumpurs -- Brāļi Reinis un Matīss Kaudzīši -- Baumaņu Kārlis -- Marija Pēkšēna -- Jurjānu Andrejs.
The Genealogy of Personal Names: towards a more productive method in historical onomastics
2011
It is essential to combine genealogical and collective biographical approaches with network analysis if one wants to take full advantage of the evidence provided by (hereditary) personal names in historical and linguistic onomastic research. The naming practices of rural families and clans from the 18th to the 20th century can bring us much fresh information about their enduring attitudes and values, as well as about other mentalities of everyday life. Personal names were cultural symbols that contained socially shared meanings. With the help of genealogical method it is possible to obtain a more nuanced understanding of these past naming practices, for example by comparing the conventions …
He Is All American Now”: Italian–Americans in the Italian Campaign of World War II
2022
This chapter aims to analyze the case of the Italian–Americans' participation in World War II. It is an interesting case study to focus on issues connected to the processes of constructing multifaceted identities that characterize ethnicity. In 1943, in view of the invasion of Italy, the US asked Italian–Americans to fight against their ancestor country. Nonetheless, they were encouraged to exploit their idealistic roots and their “ethnical” competence to facilitate a “good occupation.” Biographies of Italian–Americans that were in Italy will help us to examine the interplay between Italianness and Americanization in war experience.
Statut de la femme
2015
International audience; ...
Marcel Proust : une biographie
2013
OS nat; National audience; Une biographie qui explore le cheminement artistique et intellectuel de l'écrivain, cette recherche s'appuyant sur des documents issus de collections particulières et sur des entretiens.
Changing vocational special needs education : From teacher to developer
2019
Biographies can be used to examine changes in teaching and analyse how teachers experience education policies. This study focused on 11 vocational special needs education teachers (vocational SNE teachers) who wrote work-related memoirs. Six of them were also interviewed. Qualitative content analysis was used to determine how experienced SNE teachers describe the changes and challenges in vocational education and training since the 1970s. The findings suggested that the work of vocational SNE teachers has changed from segregated student-focused remedial instruction to planning and administrative work with indirect impact. Similarly, a change in competences is evident. The discipline “Specia…
Les frères Le Nain: ateliers, autoportraits et autobiographies
2017
International audience
Die Auswirkung sprachbiographischer und sprachideologischer Faktoren auf den Sprachgebrauch bilingualer Sprecher:innen
2023
Współcześnie w badaniach nad wielojęzycznością panuje zgoda co do tego, że mówcy bilingwalni nie są podwójnie jednojęzyczni, ale języki, którymi się posługują, wzajemnie na siebie wpływają. Zakres i forma tego oddziaływania są uwarunkowane różnymi czynnikami, m.in. biografiami i ideologiami językowymi. Artykuł odwołuje się do wyników badań prowadzonych w ramach polsko-niemieckiego projektu Pokoleniowe zróżnicowanie języka: zmiany morfosyntaktyczne wywołane przez polsko-niemiecki kontakt językowy w mowie osób dwujęzycznych, w którym przebadano dwie różniące się od siebie generacje – osoby z wczesną dwujęzycznością w Polsce (Generacja Polska/GP) oraz osoby z późną dwujęzycznością w Niemczech …