Search results for "Languages"

Rozan and Matyssek: Are they really that different?

2005

Cet article porte sur la technique de prise de notes lors de l’interpretation consecutive tout en abordant les objectifs du cours de prise de notes, qui ne se limite pas simplement a faire connaitre des symboles et des abreviations. Cette discussion est suivie d’une presentation et d'une comparaison des systemes de prise de notes de Rozan (1956) et de Matyssek (1989) et de leurs principes generaux, afin de demontrer que ces deux ecoles « classiques » ont nombre de points communs bien qu'elles soient frequemment considerees comme etant tres differentes.

El diminutivo en el español de Santo Domingo

2016

Esta investigación analiza el uso del sufijo diminutivo en un corpus oral de jóvenes de la República Dominicana. El material procede de la transcripción de veinte entrevistas orales realizadas en los años noventa en Santo Domingo. En este estudio se realiza un análisis de las ocurrencias documentadas, su morfología, sus preferencias en cuanto a la selección de las clases de palabras que se toman como base para la formación de diminutivos, sus posibles valores semánticos y comunicativos, y, por último, se determina la frecuencia de uso del diminutivo en función del sexo de los hablantes. The aim of this research is to analyse the use of the diminutive suffix in an oral corpus of young people…

Readability and the Web

2012

Readability indices measure how easy or difficult it is to read and comprehend a text. In this paper we look at the relation between readability indices and web documents from two different perspectives. On the one hand we analyse how to reliably measure the readability of web documents by applying content extraction techniques and incorporating a bias correction. On the other hand we investigate how web based corpus statistics can be used to measure readability in a novel and language independent way.

Progress Checking for Dummies

2018

Verification of progress properties is both conceptually and technically significantly more difficult than verification of safety and deadlock properties. In this study we focus on the conceptual side. We make a simple modification to a well-known model to demonstrate that it passes progress verification although the resulting model is intuitively badly incorrect. Then we point out that the error can be caught easily by adding a termination branch to the system. We compare the use of termination branches to the established method of addressing the same need, that is, weak fairness. Then we discuss another problem that may cause failure of catching progress errors even with weak fairness. Fi…

La revolución del pudor: escándalos, género y política en la crisis de la Monarquía liberal en España

2018

En este artículo se trata de analizar el carácter performativo de los grandes escándalos morales y políticos en torno a la familia real, que afectaron a la imagen pública y a los mecanismos de legitimación de la monarquía liberal en España durante el reinado isabelino. Abordo el tema desde la perspectiva actual de reflexión sobre la imbricación histórica de las nociones de virtud política y escándalo moral que dio lugar a la idea de «corrupción» en el universo liberal. Una idea que, como trato de demostrar, tuvo fuertes connotaciones de género, estuvo ligada a la dinámica de construcción del Estado nación, obliga a una ampliación sustancial de nuestra noción de «lo político», sugiere el car…

Extending PluTo for Multiple Devices by Integrating OpenACC

2018

For many years now, processor vendors increased the performance of their devices by adding more cores and wider vectorization units to their CPUs instead of scaling up the processors' clock frequency. Moreover, GPUs became popular for solving problems with even more parallel compute power. To exploit the full potential of modern compute devices, specific codes are necessary which are often coded in a hardware-specific manner. Usually, the codes for CPUs are not usable for GPUs and vice versa. The programming API OpenACC tries to close this gap by enabling one code-base to be suitable and optimized for many devices. Nevertheless, OpenACC is rarely used by `standard programmers' and while dif…

The Effects of Multiple‐Exposure Textual Enhancement on Child L2 Learners’ Development in Derivational Morphology: A Multi‐Site Study

2021

Nordic language policies for higher education and their multi-layered motivations

2016

Language policies have been drafted in Nordic higher education with the obvious, but unproblematised and unchallenged motivation caused by internationalisation. In this article, we analyse the various motivations for drafting language policies in Nordic higher education and the ideological implications of those motivations. We do this by approaching the question from multiple (macro, meso and micro) viewpoints, in order to make visible some of the undercurrents in higher education language policy. We are particularly interested in the explicit motivations for language policy change, and the explicit and implicit actors and action represented in our data. We will first discuss the background…

Numeral classifiers in East Asia

2017

AbstractThe understanding of the functional range of numeral classifiers requires a combined effort from different theoretical approaches and the integration of findings from syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This article demonstrates how such an integrative perspective creates new insights into classifiers in Sinitic languages in the fields of counting and word order, the expression of definiteness and indefiniteness and the syntax of verbal classification.

Acquisition of Generic Competencies Through Project Simulation in Translation Studies

2017

Motivated by the research in several international and interdisciplinary initiatives, for example, P21 Partnership for 21st Century Learning or the Collegiate Learning Assessment instruments, we seek for a scalable and measureable set of generic competencies for translation studies. Up to now, the acquisition of competencies in translation studies has primarily been operationalized by implementing authentic projects in higher education classes using socio-constructivist approaches. This results in a hybridization of subject-specific competencies and generic competencies in translator education. Because of the necessity to focus on the acquisition of generic competencies as a primary learnin…