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On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

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On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony, and jokes. Rachel Giora has developed a novel and comprehensive theory, the Graded Salience Hypothesis, to explain figuative language comprehension. Giora contends that the salience of meanings (i.e., the cognitive priority we ascribe to words encoded in our mental lexicon) has the primary role in language comprehension and production.

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Oxford University Press

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0195350502

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9780195350500

Yiddish in Israel

A History

By: Rachel Rojanski

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Yiddish in Israel

A History

By: Rachel Rojanski

“A pioneering study” of how two languages have coexisted in the Jewish state, with “a wealth of information” on Yiddish newspapers, theater, and more (AJS Review). Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Rachel Rojanski tells the compelling unknown story of how Yiddish, the most widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. Following Yiddish in Israel from the proclamation of the State until today, Rojanski reveals that although Israeli leadership made promoting Hebrew a high priority, it did not have a definite policy on Yiddish. The language’s varying fortune through the years was shaped by social and political developments, as well as the cultural atmosphere in Israel. Public perception of the language and its culture, the rise of identity politics, and political and financial interests all played a part. Using a wide range of archival sources, newspapers, and Yiddish literature, Rojanski follows the Israeli Yiddish scene through the history of the Yiddish press, Yiddish theater, early Israeli Yiddish literature, and high Yiddish culture. With compassion, she explores the tensions during Israel’s early years between Yiddish writers and activists and Israel’s leaders, most of whom were themselves Eastern European Jews balancing their love of Yiddish with their desire to promote Hebrew. Finally Rojanski follows Yiddish into the twenty-first century, telling the story of the revived interest in Yiddish among Israeli-born children of Holocaust survivors as they return to the language of their parents.

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334

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Indiana University Press

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0253045169

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9780253045164

Right to Reparations

The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964

By: Rachel Blumenthal

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Right to Reparations

The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964

By: Rachel Blumenthal

This book examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its operations as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics. Rachel Blumenthal traces the founding of the organization by one person, and its continued campaign for the payment of compensation to survivors after Israel left the negotiations. This book explores the degree to which the leadership entity served individual victims of the Third Reich, the Jewish public, or member organizations.

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225

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793637881

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9781793637888

Ko Taranaki Te Maunga

By: Rachel Buchanan

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Ko Taranaki Te Maunga

By: Rachel Buchanan

Parihaka was a place and an event that could be lost and found, over and over. It moved into view, then disappeared, just like the mountain. In 1881, over 1,500 colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka near the Taranaki coast. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi were jailed. In this BWB Text, Rachel Buchanan tells her own, deeply personal story of Parihaka. Beginning with the death of her father, a man with affiliations to many of Taranaki’s eight iwi, she describes her connection to Taranaki, the land and mountain; and the impact of confiscation. Buchanan discusses the apologies and settlements that have taken place since te pāhuatanga, the invasion of Parihaka.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1988545250

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9781988545257

The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty

By: Rachel Elior

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The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty

By: Rachel Elior

The Unknown History of Jewish Women—On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their absence from the Jewish Hebrew library of the "People of the Book" and interprets their social condition in relation to their imposed ignorance and exclusion from public literacy. The book begins with a chapter on communal education for Jewish boys, which was compulsory and free of charge for the first ten years in all traditional Jewish communities. The discussion continues with the striking absence of any communal Jewish education for girls until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the implications of this fact for twentieth-century immigration to Israel (1949-1959) The following chapters discuss the social, cultural and legal contexts of this reality of female illiteracy in the Jewish community—a community that placed a supreme value on male education. The discussion focuses on the patriarchal order and the postulations, rules, norms, sanctions and mythologies that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, laid the religious foundations of this discriminatory reality.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111043916

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9783111043913

The Print of the Nails

The Church Times Holy Week and Easter Collection

By: Paula Gooder,Samuel Wells ,Barbara Brown Taylor ,David Hart,Timothy Radcliffe ,Malcolm Guite,Mark Oakley,Rachel Mann ,Tom Wright ,Ben Quash,David Scott

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The Print of the Nails

The Church Times Holy Week and Easter Collection

By: Paula Gooder,Samuel Wells ,Barbara Brown Taylor ,David Hart,Timothy Radcliffe ,Malcolm Guite,Mark Oakley,Rachel Mann ,Tom Wright ,Ben Quash,David Scott

Each year, the Holy Week and Easter double issue of the Church Times offers a wealth of seasonal reading and resources for worship and preaching. This volume, like its companion Christmas collection, draws together outstanding features from the past twenty years. It includes: * Meditations on the Stations of the Cross by the poet David Scott; * A short story set in Gethsemane by David Hart; * Timothy Radcliffe on the alternative to conflict symbolised by the Last Supper; * Sam Wells on Pilate and what he - and we - could do differently; * Richard Harries on the art of Good Friday; * Peter Stanford on Judas; * Michael Perham on why Easter celebrations should start in the dark; * Stephen Cleobury on the carols of Easter; * Mark Oakley on the poetry of the cross; * Paula Gooder on why the resurrection is central to faith; * Reflections on the season's lectionary readings, and much besides.

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Canterbury Press

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1786224240

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9781786224248

Inextricably Bonded

Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture

By: Rachel Feldhay Brenner

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Inextricably Bonded

Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-Visioning Culture

By: Rachel Feldhay Brenner

Despite the tragic reality of the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict and deep-rooted beliefs that the chasm between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs is unbridgeable, this book affirms the bonds between the two communities. Rachel Feldhay Brenner demonstrates that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy the ideologies that have obstructed dialogue between the two peoples. Brenner argues that literary critics have ignored the variety and the dissent in the novels of both Arab and Jewish writers in Israel, giving them interpretations that embrace the politics of exclusion and conform with Zionist ideology. Brenner offers insightful new readings that compare fiction by Jewish writers Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, and others with fiction written in Hebrew by such Arab-Israeli writers as Atallah Mansour, Emile Habiby, and Anton Shammas. This parallel analysis highlights the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by both the Jewish victors and the Arab vanquished, and Brenner suggests that the hope for release from the historical trauma lies—on both sides—in reaching an understanding with and of the adversary. Drawing upon the theories of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Emanuel Levinas, and others, Inextricably Bonded is an innovative and illuminating examination of literary dissent from dominant ideology.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299189635

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9780299189631

On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

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On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

In this volume, Rachel Giora explores how the salient meanings of words - the meanings that stand out as most prominent and accessible in our minds - shape how we think and how we speak. For Giora, salient meanings display interesting effects in both figurative and literal language. In both domains, speakers and writers creatively exploit the possibilities inherent in the fact that, while words have multiple meanings, some meanings are more accessible than others. Of the various meanings weencode in our mental lexicon for a given word or expression, we ascribe greater cognitive priority to some over others. Interestingly, the most salient meaning is not always the literal meaning. Giora argues that it is cognitively prominent salient meanings, rather than literal meanings, that play the most important role in the comprehension and production of language. She shows that even though context begins to affect comprehension immediately, it does so without obstructing the early accessing of salient meanings. Thus, the meaning we first attend to is the salient word meaning, regardless of contextual bias. Knowledge of salient meanings turns out to play a major role, perhaps the most important role, in the process of using and understanding of language. Going beyond the familiar effects of literal meaning and context, the Graded Salience Hypothesis presents the most comprehensive explanation for how we use language for meaning. In this volume, Giora presents her new model for the first time in a book-length treatment, with original and illuminating perspectives that will be of interest to linguists, philosophers, psychologists, and all who want to know more about just how we understand what we mean.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0195136160

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9780195136166

On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

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Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By: Rachel Giora

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Rachela

By: Rachel Schlufman,Rachela Walshaw

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Rachela

By: Rachel Schlufman,Rachela Walshaw

In this unique follow-up memoir to the author

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413437230

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9781413437232

My Name is Rachel Corrie

Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie

By: Rachel Corrie

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My Name is Rachel Corrie

Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie

By: Rachel Corrie

THE STORY: On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE is a one-woman play

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822222221

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9780822222224

My Name is Rachel Corrie

The Writings of Rachel Corrie

By: Rachel Corrie

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The Writings of Rachel Corrie

By: Rachel Corrie

A deeply moving personal testimony... Theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern."--Guardian Intensely topical account of the life and early death of a young female activist--adapted from her own writings and published alongside the premiere.

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MIT Press

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1854599062

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Redemption

By: Rachel Cox

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Redemption

By: Rachel Cox

Middle-aged Simone LeBlanc has been tormented her entire adult life with the suspicion that she had been gang-raped in college. Fearful of learning the truth and lacking emotional support from her parents, Simone is haunted by nightmares of may have happened that fateful night. Simone’s life is transformed when she meets Roger Peterson, a contemporary who also attended the same university as Simone. With Roger’s love and support, Simone starts to recover from her trauma—until she discovers how Roger was involved that night, and how their destines are interwoven.

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1477236112

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The Long-Lost Rachel Wild;: Or, Seeking Diamonds in the Rough

By: Rachel Wild Peterson

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The Long-Lost Rachel Wild;: Or, Seeking Diamonds in the Rough

By: Rachel Wild Peterson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1376795566

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On Our Mind

On Our Mind

Yiddish in Israel

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Right to Reparations

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Ko Taranaki Te Maunga

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The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

The Print of the Nails

The Print of the Nails

Inextricably Bonded

Inextricably Bonded

On Our Mind

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On Our Mind

On Our Mind

Rachela

Rachela

My Name is Rachel Corrie

My Name is Rachel Corrie

My Name is Rachel Corrie

My Name is Rachel Corrie

Redemption

Redemption

The Long-Lost Rachel Wild;: Or, Seeking Diamonds in the Rough

The Long-Lost Rachel Wild;: Or, Seeking Diamonds in the Rough

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