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Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

By: Ioan-Iovitz Popescu,Mihaiela Lupea,Doina Tatar,Gabriel Altmann

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Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

By: Ioan-Iovitz Popescu,Mihaiela Lupea,Doina Tatar,Gabriel Altmann

The book presents methods for the objective analysis of poetic language. Common objects of literary studies such as rhythm, semantic explications, interpretation and personal impressions are avoided. Only those properties of poetic texts are taken into account that could be quantified. The major chapters contain the analysis of phonic phenomena (frequency, euphony, assonance, alliteration, aggregation, rhyme), word properties (aspects of frequency, length, richness, word classes, sequences of word properties, characterisations). The synergetic control cycle is the result of the study of mutual links between properties. For all methods both statistical tests (evaluation, comparison), theoretical derivations (models), and examples are presented. The book is dedicated to the work of the famous Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu whose complete work was analysed, which made detailed illustrations of the method possible. The methods can be used mutatis mutandis for any language and text. It is the first comprehensive quantitative analysis of a poetic work.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110363798

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9783110363791

Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Detection and Analysis

By: Gabriel Altmann,Reinhard Köhler

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Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Detection and Analysis

By: Gabriel Altmann,Reinhard Köhler

The present volume presents objective methods to detect and analyse various forms of repetitions. Repetition of textual elements is more than a superficial phenomenon. It may even be considered as constitutive for units and relations in a text: on a primary level when no other way exists to establish a unit – as in a musical composition (a motif can be recognised as such only after at least one repetition) – and on a secondary, artistic level, where repetition is a consequence of the transfer of the equivalence principle from the paradigmatic axis to the syntagmatic one as showed by R. Jakobson. The analysis of repetitive elements and structures in texts with objective mathematical means can serve several practical and theoretical purposes, among them: Characterisation of texts by means of parameters (measures, indicators) as taken from established mathematical statistics or specifically constructed ones in individual cases. Comparison of texts on the basis of their quantitative characteristics and classification of the texts by the results. Research for the laws of text, which control the mechanisms connected to text creation. As a remote aim, the construction of a theory of text consisting of a system of text laws. The final attempt of every possible quantitative text analysis is the construction of a text theory. The book illustrates this on examples of such laws and corresponding empirical tests.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110412020

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9783110412024

Event Cognition

By: Gabriel A. Radvansky,Jeffrey M. Zacks

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Event Cognition

By: Gabriel A. Radvansky,Jeffrey M. Zacks

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize the available psychological and neuroscience data surrounding it. This synthesis leads to new proposals about several traditional areas in psychology and neuroscience including perception, attention, language understanding, memory, and problem solving. Radvansky and Zacks have written this book with a diverse readership in mind. It is intended for a range of researchers working within cognitive science including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, and education. Readers curious about events more generally such as those working in literature, film theory, and history will also find it of interest.

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Oxford University Press

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0199898146

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9780199898145

The Daily Book of Art

365 readings that teach, inspire & entertain

By: Colin Gilbert,Dylan Gilbert,Elizabeth T. Gilbert,Gabriel Guzman,Rebecca Razo,Sharon Robinson,Amy Runyen,David Schmidt

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The Daily Book of Art

365 readings that teach, inspire & entertain

By: Colin Gilbert,Dylan Gilbert,Elizabeth T. Gilbert,Gabriel Guzman,Rebecca Razo,Sharon Robinson,Amy Runyen,David Schmidt

In today's fast-paced world, creative people are as eager as ever to pursue their artistic passions, but many of them simply don't have enough time. Catering to this modern dilemma, we've concocted the perfect remedy for over-burdened artists. The Daily Book of Art includes a year's worth of brief daily readings and lessons about the visual arts that entertain as they inform. Ten exciting categories of discussion rotate throughout the course of a year, giving readers a well-rounded experience in the art world. From color psychology and aesthetic philosophy to the proverbial argument over whether elephants really can paint, art-starved readers will encounter a broad range of inspiring subjects. The ten categories of discussion include Art 101, Philosophy of Art, Art Through the Ages, Profiles in Art, A Picture’s Worth 200 Words, Art from the Inside Out, Art Around the World, Artistic Oddities, Unexpected Art Forms, and Step-by-Step Exercises.

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Walter Foster Publishing

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1616737018

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9781616737016

The Qur'an and the Bible

Text and Commentary

By: Gabriel Said Reynolds

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The Qur'an and the Bible

Text and Commentary

By: Gabriel Said Reynolds

While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Qur'anic and Biblical studies to offer rigorous and revelatory commentary on how these holy books are intrinsically connected."--Dust jacket.

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Yale University Press

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0300181329

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9780300181326

Romanians in Western Europe

Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections

By: Remus Gabriel Anghel

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Romanians in Western Europe

Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections

By: Remus Gabriel Anghel

In recent years, Romanians have become the second largest migrant group in Western Europe. Following the liberalization of border controls and the massive economic and political changes in Eastern Europe, human mobility has increased and is becoming a permanent feature of post-Cold War Europe. The arrival of many Eastern Europeans, with Romanians being the largest migrant group, has produced public concerns on immigration in some West European countries. This is particularly the case in Italy, where Romanian irregular migrants are often stigmatized as poor troublemakers by authorities and the mass media. This book challenges such commonly-held assumptions that artificially divide migrants into categories of wished and unwished immigrants—winners and losers of international migration. This book compares two migrant groups. The first is composed of ethnic Germans who migrated legally from Timisoara, Romania, to Nuremberg, Germany. The second is made up of those who migrated irregularly from Borsa, Romania, to Milan, Italy. The analysis highlights a paradoxical situation. Irregular Romanian migrants in Milan had fewer rights and opportunities, yet through migration they gained prestige and came to enjoy a sense of success. Alternately, the Germans who had migrated to Nuremberg, who received more rights and opportunities, perceived that they had suffered a loss of social prestige. The focus on migrants’ social status employed in the book seeks to clarify this puzzle and provide an analytical framework for researching the linkages between the migration and incorporation of Romanians—who are today European citizens—and European states’ migration policies and migrant transnationalism.

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219

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Lexington Books

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073917889X

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9780739178898

Human Memory

By: Gabriel A. Radvansky

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Human Memory

By: Gabriel A. Radvansky

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections, providing an accessible introduction to the application and assessment of memory theory. Beginning with the history of memory, the first section explores basic methodology and neuroscience. The second section examines the key topics of memory such as the sensory registers, mechanisms of forgetting and short-term, nondeclarative, episodic, and semantic memory. The third section focuses on specialist topics such as amnesia, memory for space and time, autobiographical memory, memory and reality, memory and the law, metamemory and formal models of memory. Instructors could pick and chose which of these chapters best fit the goals of their course. New to this edition: More prominent discussion of neuroscience findings. Coverage of a wider range of neuroscientific techniques. Greater emphasis on memory changes over time. New explanation of how to calculate a wider range of signal detection measures. Additional content on a wide range of topics including the mirror effect, sleep-related memory processes, vicarious autobiographical memories, inter-generational memory transmission, the impact of lying on memory, eyewitness collaboration, and aging and spatial memory. Expanded coverage of areas including theories of hypermnesia, chunking, serial order memory, prospective memory, threshold models, and eyewitness line-up identification. Updated companion resources, including PowerPoint slides and exam questions. The book highlights the application of memory theory and findings to everyday experience, presents in-depth explorations of studies, and provides opportunities for students to explore the assessment of memory in more laboratory-based settings. Packed full of student-friendly pedagogy including study questions, Stop and Review and Try it Out sections, Study in Depth text boxes, and more, Human Memory, 4th edition is an essential companion for all students of human memory.

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675

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Taylor & Francis

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1000351025

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9781000351026

War Land on the Eastern Front

Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

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War Land on the Eastern Front

Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I

By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

War Land on the Eastern Front is a study of a hidden legacy of World War I: the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front and the long-term effects of their encounter with Eastern Europe. It presents an 'anatomy of an occupation', charting the ambitions and realities of the new German military state there. Using hitherto neglected sources from both occupiers and occupied, official documents, propaganda, memoirs, and novels, it reveals how German views of the East changed during total war. New categories for viewing the East took root along with the idea of a German cultural mission in these supposed wastelands. After Germany's defeat, the Eastern front's 'lessons' were taken up by the Nazis, radicalized, and enacted when German armies returned to the East in World War II. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius's persuasive and compelling study fills a yawning gap in the literature of the Great War.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139426648

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9781139426640

Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids

A Guide to Current Common Practice

By: Gabriel Tojo,Marcos I. Fernandez

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Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids

A Guide to Current Common Practice

By: Gabriel Tojo,Marcos I. Fernandez

As the second volume in a comprehensive encyclopedia of organic reactions, this work provides an elaborated description of the experimental methods used for the oxidation of alcohols to acids. It supplies important data on possible interferences from protecting groups and functional groups, as well as on potential side-reactions. This book is a must for anyone involved in the preparation of organic compounds.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387354328

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9780387354323

Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

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Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure Contains a completely revised section on imaging Covers new advances in interventional radiology

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444359258

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9781444359251

Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

By: Gabriel G. Haddad,Steven H. Abman,Victor Chernick

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Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

By: Gabriel G. Haddad,Steven H. Abman,Victor Chernick

This second edition of the landmark 1991 text, Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease reviews the importance of the integrations of molecular, cellular and physiologic strategies in the development of a new understanding of pediatric respiratory disorders. It provides state-of-the-art information about fundamental mechanisms underlying ......

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PMPH-USA

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155009159X

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9781550091595

Pulmonary Function

A Guide for Clinicians

By: Gabriel Laszlo

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Pulmonary Function

A Guide for Clinicians

By: Gabriel Laszlo

A coherent and detailed guide to the reporting of lung function tests, their application and interpretation.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521446791

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9780521446792

Word Frequency Studies

By: Ioan-Ioviț Popescu

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Word Frequency Studies

By: Ioan-Ioviț Popescu

The present book finds and collects absolutely new aspects of word frequency. First, eminent characteristics (such as the h-point, first used in scientometrics, the k-, m-, and n-points) are introduced - it can be shown that the geometry of word frequency is fundamentally based on them. Furthermore, various indicators of text properties are proposed for the first time, such as thematic concentration, autosemantic text compactness, autosemantic density, etc. In detail, the autosemantic structure of a given text is evaluated by means of a graph representation and its properties (according to a problem from network research). Special emphasis is given to the part-of-speech differentiation, which plays a significant role in stylistics. On the basis of a general theory, which has been developed especially for linguistic research, problems of the frequency structure of texts with respect to word occurrence are investigated and discussed in detail. Methodologically, specific reference is made to synergetic linguistics, including some exemplary analyses, showing that there are points of contact with this field. A separate chapter is dedicated to within-sentence word position; this issue considers grammar as well as language genesis; another chapter is dedicated to the type-token ratio, discussing all established methods and their relevance for word frequency analysis. All methods presented in the book are statistically tested; to this end, some new tests have been developed. All procedures and calculations are conducted for 20 languages, ranging from Polynesia, Indonesia, India, and Europe to a North American Indian language. The broad distribution of the data and texts from all genres allows generalizations with respect to language typology.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110218526

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9783110218527

Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Detection and Analysis

By: Gabriel Altmann,Reinhard Köhler

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Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Detection and Analysis

By: Gabriel Altmann,Reinhard Köhler

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3110412020

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Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

By: Ioan-Iovitz Popescu,Mihaiela Lupea,Doina Tatar,Gabriel Altmann

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By: Ioan-Iovitz Popescu,Mihaiela Lupea,Doina Tatar,Gabriel Altmann

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110394790

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9783110394795

Quantitative Syntax Analysis

By: Reinhard Köhler,Gabriel Altmann

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Quantitative Syntax Analysis

By: Reinhard Köhler,Gabriel Altmann

This is the first book which brings together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand and the methodology of quantitative linguistics on the other hand. The author provides the theoretical background for this enterprise on the basis of the philosophy of science and of linguistic considerations including a discussion of Chomsky's attitude against the application of statistical methods to syntactic phenomena. He gives a short introduction into the aims and methods of the quantitative approach to linguistics in general and to syntax in particular. The following chapters inform the reader about the measurement of syntactic properties, possibilities to acquire empirical data from syntactically annotated text corpora and the most common mathematical models and methods for the analysis of syntactic and syntagmatic material. Then, a number of prominent approaches and hypotheses about interrelations between properties of syntactic constructions are presented and evaluated on material from various languages and text kinds. Finally, the theory of synergetic linguistics and its application to syntax is introduced including the integration of such famous hypotheses as Yngve's depth hypothesis and Hawkins's "Early immediate constituent" principle. The book concludes with a number of perspectives with respect to follow-up studies and extensions to the presented models with interfaces to neighbouring disciplines."--Publisher's website.

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Mouton De Gruyter

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3110272199

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9783110272192

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Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Event Cognition

Event Cognition

The Daily Book of Art

The Daily Book of Art

The Qur'an and the Bible

The Qur'an and the Bible

Romanians in Western Europe

Romanians in Western Europe

Human Memory

Human Memory

War Land on the Eastern Front

War Land on the Eastern Front

Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids

Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids

Stroke

Stroke

Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

Chernick-Mellins Basic Mechanisms of Pediatric Respiratory Disease

Pulmonary Function

Pulmonary Function

Word Frequency Studies

Word Frequency Studies

Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

Quantitative Syntax Analysis

Quantitative Syntax Analysis

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