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Novikov, Anatoliy, and Natal'ya Novikova. Mathematical methods in psychology (speech therapy). ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1018182.
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The tutorial discusses the necessary mathematical methods and approaches used for investigation and practical applications in psychology (speech therapy). In examples and assignments (with answers) are given found in the practical work of psychologists in various techniques that allow you to master the computational procedures of statistical processing of data.
In parallel with manual processing are the processing of data using MS Excel and SPSS. Shows a combination of Excel and SPSS packages.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
Designed for students enrolled in the 37.03.01 direction of training "Psychology". Can also be useful to graduate students and professionals, focused on applied problems in psychology.
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Lost and found. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
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Willems, Mo. El Conejito Knuffle. [Norwalk, CT]: Weston Woods Studios, 2007.
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Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny. S.l: Weston Woods Studios, 2008.
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Willems, Mo. El Conejito Knuffle. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2007.
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Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny: A cautionary tale. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2004.
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Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny: A cautionary tale. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2004.
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Owens, Jonathan. Dialects (speech communities), the apparent past, and grammaticalization. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701378.003.0008.
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Over a long-term time frame in a language with several discrete dialects, how far does grammaticalization theory elucidate the history of individual morphemes? This issue is addressed using the tense/mode prefix b-, found in Gulf/Najdi, Yemeni, Uzbekistan, Nigerian, and Egyptian/Levantine Arabic. It is argued that while standard grammaticalization theory correctly predicts its assumed origin, from a variant of the verb ‘want’ (yibġa, yiba, yibbi > *b-), it does little to predict its further development. This paper first examines the functions of the prefix *b-. Once integrated as a prefix, *b- takes odd twists and turns, sometimes a tense marker, sometimes a marker of deontic modality, sometimes a generalized modal/indicative marker. Grammaticalization theory says nothing about why *b- should have developed in one way in one dialect and in another way in another. As a step towards answering these questions, the idea of dialects as speech communities is introduced.
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Henry, Rosita. Veiled commands: anthropological perspectives on directives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803225.003.0015.
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The great diversity of command strategies that can be found cross-linguistically provides rich comparative material for consideration by speech act theorists and other linguistic philosophers. Speech act theory has generated productive debates on how illocutionary acts such as commands are situated in context, and the relationship between speech action, power relations, politics, and diplomacy. This chapter concerns the way culturally specific strategies for authority, politeness, and diplomacy are encoded in how people deliver directives to others. The focus is on veiled commands, especially in the context of public speeches in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), as they relate to egalitarian values and concepts of autonomy. While veiled commands are not able to be universally correlated with an egalitarian ethos, in any context the veiling of words is related to the human awareness of others and that the world we inhabit is always a social world.
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Payne, Elinor, Brechtje Post, Nina Gram Garmann, and Hanne Gram Simonsen. The acquisition of long consonants in Norwegian. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754930.003.0007.
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This study investigated the nature and acquisition of long consonants in Norwegian. By age 2;6 children already differentiate between [V:C] vs [VC:] structures in their own productions and, as with adults, do so most reliably through proportion of vowel duration in the rhyme (V/VC), the only systematic marker of the contrast. For both adults and children, the contrastiveness of vowel and consonant durations in themselves varies according to consonant manner: in sonorants both V and C duration are also contrastive, while in voiceless stops, consonant duration in itself is not contrastive. Evidence is also found for preaspiration as a possible secondary cue to long stops, and is present from the earliest stages of child speech investigated. By age 6, increasing speed and fluency in global intergestural coordination may undermine local temporal relationships already acquired at a slower speech rate, bringing about a transitional stage of apparent regression in development.
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Shuy, Roger W. The Effects, Frequency, and Power of the Government’s Uses of Deceptive Ambiguity in Criminal Investigations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669898.003.0009.
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This chapter first summarizes the role of deceptive ambiguity in relationship to the legal institution’s need to discover predisposition, intentionality, and voluntariness. It then compares the relative frequency of the government representatives’ uses of deceptive ambiguity found in the six elements of the Inverted Pyramid: speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, conversational strategies, and lexical and grammatical language. Finally, it summarizes and compares the uses of deceptive ambiguity by police and prosecutors, when institutional power is strongly evident, with the way deceptive ambiguity is used by three types of cooperating witnesses, when this institutional power is hidden during their undercover interactions with targets.
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Thornes, Tim. On the heterogeneity of Northern Paiute directives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803225.003.0007.
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The formal encoding of directive speech in Northern Paiute (W. Numic, Uto-Aztecan) is quite heterogeneous, despite the simplicity of bare verb stem, addressee-directed command forms. The language employs a range of grammatical constructions both to colour the force of a canonical imperative and to form non-canonical imperatives. This chapter addresses formal strategies that express directive speech in Northern Paiute with attention to pragmatic context in naturally occurring speech, in addition to preliminary comparisons with related languages and hypotheses around historical developments in Numic and beyond, placing the data in the context of a general typology of commands in the world’s languages. The use of aspect marking, deontic modality, and subordinating morphology is common. The ways in which aspectual morphology is deployed in Northern Paiute directives do not always follow patterns found in other languages. Of further interest is the evidence for a biclausal origin in the grammar of directive speech acts.
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Kruschwitz, Peter. Linguistic Variation, Language Change, and Latin Inscriptions. Edited by Christer Bruun and Jonathan Edmondson. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195336467.013.033.
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This chapter investigates Latin inscriptions that contain linguistic features which appear to stem from popular, as opposed to elite, usage and are rarely, if ever, found in Roman literary authors, unless these were explicitly seeking to mimic uneducated, semi-literate, or moronic people’s speech. Topics treated include: diastratic, diaphasic, and diatopic varieties of Latin, the now contested concept of “Vulgar Latin,” and the phonology, morphology, and syntax and semantics of such Latin inscriptions. The chapter traces the broader use of the Latin language than that found in the literary corpus and thus widens our understanding of what may be considered “standard” Latin.
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Gordon, Gregory S. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190612689.003.0013.
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”—MOTHER TERESA11.Sam Majdi, THE WISDOM OF THE GREAT 436 (2012).On April 15, 2016, in relation to his infamous November 1992 speech, a Rwandan High Court found Léon Mugesera guilty of incitement to commit genocide, inciting ethnic hatred and persecution as a crime against humanity....
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Verweij, Sebastiaan. King Darius in the Archives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.003.0015.
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This chapter discusses the discovery of an extracted speech, copied into manuscript, from William Alexander’s Senecan play, The Tragedie of Darius (1603). It also presents a full inventory of National Records of Scotland, MS RH13/38, where the text was found among around thirty-five poetic items ranging from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth. The chapter gives a full transcription of the speech, followed by a discussion of its language, circulation, and contemporaneous appeal in light of its potential political significance. Very little is known about Alexander’s Scottish reception (especially in bibliographical terms), so a copy of this play extract provides some rare evidence about Scottish readers of Alexander’s plays around the time of the Union of Crowns.
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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. Sentence Types. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.8.
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“Declarative,” “interrogative,” and “imperative” are grammatical labels, while “statement,” “command,” and “question” describe type of speech act. The major sentence types correspond to these types, and are found in every language. There are also minor, less well-described types, such as exclamatives. Boundaries between sentence types are not water-tight. A command can be phrased using a statement, or as a question, with a difference in illocutionary force. A question may imply a statement rather than seeking information or pronounced with command intonation, and then be understood as a plea, a request, or an order. The versatility of sentence types is often rooted in cultural conventions and strategies of “saving face.” Speech acts reflect numerous communicative tasks, and can be mapped onto the sentence types in a specific way. The number of sentence types in a given language is finite, while the number of potential communicative tasks can be open-ended.
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Fergus, Jan. ‘Pictures of Domestic Life in Country Villages’. Edited by Alan Downie. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.013.025.
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Though less popular and esteemed in her own time than better known novelists like Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott, Jane Austen now occupies an exalted place in literary history, in part for inventing nineteenth-century British ‘realist’ fiction. Such fictions seem to represent ‘real life’; she found narrative techniques to give the effect of the real. One of the most important of these techniques has been called ‘free indirect speech’: loosely, a narrator’s third-person, supposedly detached voice ventriloquizes the language and thus the perspective of one of the characters. Austen’s experiments with this device, particularly in Emma, have a history; she had foremothers. Analysis of examples from Austen’s and Edgeworth’s works demonstrate that the use of free indirect speech came to Austen in part through Edgeworth’s experiments in Tales of Fashionable Life. Elaborated and extended by Austen in her novels, the device constitutes Austen’s lasting formal contribution to the realist novel.
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Sinkovec, Matjaž. Nato : Lost or Found: Speeches Articles and Stuff Verbatim 1991 - 2021. iUniverse, Incorporated, 2022.
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Sinkovec, Matjaz. Nato : Lost or Found: Speeches Articles and Stuff Verbatim 1991 - 2021. iUniverse, Incorporated, 2022.
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O'Meara, Jennifer. Engaging Dialogue. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420624.001.0001.
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This book examines the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, arguing that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that ‘talk is cheap’. Focusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on films by writer-directors like Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach and Richard Linklater, the book demonstrates dialogue’s ability to engage audiences and bind together the narrative, aesthetic and performative elements of selected cinema. When compared to the dialogue norms of more mainstream cinema, the verbal styles of these independent writer-directors are found to be marked by alternations between various extremes, particularly those of naturalism and hyper-stylization, and between the poles of efficiency and excess. More broadly, these writer-directors are used as case studies that allow for an understanding of how dialogue functions in verbally experimental cinema, which, this book contends, is more often found in ‘independent’ or ‘art’ cinema. In questioning the association of dialogue-centred films with the ‘literary’ and the ‘un-cinematic’, the book highlights how speech in independent cinema can instead hinge on what is termed ‘cinematic verbalism’: when dialogue is designed and executed in complex, medium-specific ways. More broadly, the book provides a framework for analysing dialogue design and execution that can be readily applied to other films and filmmakers. It also highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components. In so doing, the book develops new connections between film dialogue, reception studies, independent cinema and auteur studies.
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Bowie, Ewen. The Lesson of Book 2. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803614.003.0003.
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This chapter first explores the ways in which Book 2 resists its characterization by Fornara in 1971 as marked by ‘the utter absence in II of the moral or philosophical element’. It picks out several features that link it with other parts of Herodotus’ work (e.g. moral judgements, direct speech, divine retribution), and then draws attention to elements in Herodotus’ presentation already found in archaic and early classical narrative elegy, culminating in the work of Herodotus’ relative Panyassis. It then briefly notices the differences between Herodotus’ work and that of Hecataeus, and concludes by offering an explanation for the diversity of the Enquiry that is so strikingly exemplified by Book 2.
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Green, Barbara. Genre Criticism and the Prophets. Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.013.15.
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This chapter offers a current explanation of the term “genre,” to distinguish it from form, and then proposes twenty-five genres that are found typically and frequently in the Latter Prophets. For each genre, a definition is offered, and a biblical text is instanced, with the shape, function, and effect of the genre suggested. The genres include the following: allegory; argumenta minori ad maius; call/commission; day of the Lord saying; dialogue; dirge; discourse ascribed; disputation; doxology/hymn; exhortation/admonition; lament; metaphor; metonymy; parable; parodic speech; personification; prayer; pronouncement; question; root metaphor; satire/taunt; symbolic action report; theophany report; uncreation saying; and vision report.
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Ohnuma, Reiko. (Human) Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190637545.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the thinking, speaking, highly anthropomorphized animals found in previous-life stories of the Buddha (jātakas)—more specifically, those that populate the Pāli Jātakaṭṭhavaṇṇanā. It demonstrates that these speaking animals often speak about the suffering of animals at humanity’s hands, using the human power of speech to condemn human cruelty, exploitation, and abuse of the nonhuman animal world. The chapter analyzes multiple Pāli jātakas, arranged around the themes of meat-eating, hunting, animal sacrifice, and legal prosecution of animals. In addition to the ability to speak, the animals in these jātakas can reason and think, and their supposed lack of intelligence is overturned as they continually attempt to outwit the human world.
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Pant, Rashmi. Speaking in Multiple Registers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477791.003.0003.
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The framework of legal pluralism has conventionally posed customary norms against official Hindu law and prioritizes inheritance law as the only systemic mode for the transmission of family property. It has led to a scholarly neglect of the practices of gift and contract, which the author sees as alternative modes of sharing/devolving property to kin with weak inheritance rights. The chapter traces how, below the judicial radar, compensation for caregiving through gift and contract constituted a common ground of argument and negotiation among peasant litigants of the Garhwal Himalayas in the early twentieth century. It recovers ideas of normative justice through litigants’ speech, which never found their way into the corpus juris of either Hindu Law or custom.
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Meyer, Michel. The common operators in figures and arguments. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199691821.003.0004.
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There are four basic operators common to figurative speech and argumentation—approval, disapproval, and between the two, modification and addition. These operate at different levels: as identity, difference, inference, and opposition; as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony; and they can also define the four possible types of audience responses. Four sets of operators, =, +, ±, and – span the spectrum from acquiescence to rejection, and correspond to four types of audiences which perform these acts of adherence, requalification, addition, and contradiction. These four basic operators can already be found in Aristotle, but they are also present in contemporary rhetoric (e.g. the General Rhetoric of the Group Mu). Figures and arguments, though different, are for the same reason divided into four basic classes.
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Ball, Carlos A. Principles Matter. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197584484.001.0001.
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Progressives who opposed the Trump administration’s policies found themselves repeatedly relying on constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech to resist the federal government. Although many progressives had either criticized or underemphasized those principles before Trump, the principles became vital to progressive causes after Trump was elected. Using dozens of examples from the ways in which Trump abused presidential powers, this book explains how the three sets of principles can help mitigate the harms that autocratic leaders in the Trump mold can inflict on both democratic institutions and vulnerable minorities. In doing so, the book urges progressives to follow this rule of thumb in the post-Trump era: if a constitutional principle was worth deploying to resist Trump’s harmful policies and autocratic governance, then it is likely worth defending in the post-Trump era even if it makes the short-term attainment of progressive objectives more difficult. This type of principled constitutionalism is essential not only because being principled is good in and of itself, but also because being principled in matters related to federalism, separation of powers, and free speech will help both advance progressive causes over the long run and reduce the threats posed by future autocratic leaders in the Trump mold to our system of self-governance, to our democratic values, and to traditionally subordinated minorities. Going forward, progressives should promote and defend constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech regardless of whether they have an ally or an opponent in the White House.
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Randall, David. The Classic Origins of Conversation. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430104.003.0002.
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In antiquity, the Greeks and Romans linked together several concepts whose history we will trace throughout this narrative. These were familiarity, its sometimes-tense analogue friendship, the friend’s doppelgänger, the flatterer, and conversation, the mode of speech inquiring after truth that articulated both familiar style and friendship. All these concepts found expression not only in conversation but also in the letter, the written analogue of conversation. The Romans in particular also began to emphasize during their Silver Age the concept of conversatio, the mutual conduct of mankind. This last concept stood at some intellectual distance from the constellation formed around familiarity, friendship, and conversation, but from the beginning it possessed conceptual associations that would allow it to be linked with them more tightly in ensuing centuries.
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Sharrad, Paul. G. V. Desani. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0025.
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This chapter examines G. V. Desani's only novel, All About H. Hatterr (1948). All About H. Hatterr enjoyed a brief flash of success and then slid into the shadows until 1972. By this time, Desani had revised it and an American edition had appeared, followed by a Penguin edition in the UK. In the interim, English Literature had taken up the study of writing from colonies and ex-colonies. Read in a ‘Commonwealth’ or ‘postcolonial’ context, All About H. Hatterr seems more central than eccentric—although even then, it does not conform to the early phase of nationalist realism/idealism found in many novels writing out from under imperial controls. It challenges the Western understanding of the novel by making its English sound like Indian speech and its form look like Hindu philosophical texts
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Zehmisch, Philipp. The Politics of Voice and Silence. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199469864.003.0010.
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Chapter 8 aims to offer alternative ways to understand the Ranchis’ disenfranchisement by bringing hegemonic modes of explanation in dialogue with silenced subaltern perspectives. The first section examines how prevailing conditions of speech deepened the Ranchis’ exclusion from the lines of social mobility. It demonstrates that the attempts of community leaders, bureaucrats, politicians, NGO workers, and the Catholic Church to include Ranchis into welfare and development programmes largely failed because no appropriate form of communication between subalterns and these hegemonic actors was found. The second part of the chapter shows that the Ranchis’ marginalization must also be regarded as a result of their own forms of silent resistance against state interference. Referring to theories of anarchist anthropology, the author puts forward the argument that the Ranchis’ preference for self-rule has triggered their conscious evasion from interaction with the state.
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Woodford, Henry J., and James George. Examining the nervous system of an older patient. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198701590.003.0111.
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Ageing is associated with changes in the nervous system, especially the accumulation of neurodegenerative and white matter lesions within the brain. Abnormalities are commonly found when examining older people and some of these are associated with functional impairment and a higher risk of death. In order to reliably interpret examination findings it is important to assess cognition, hearing, vision, and speech first. Clarity of instruction is key. Interpretation of findings must take into account common age-related changes. For example, genuine increased tone should be distinguished from paratonia. Power testing should look for asymmetry within the individual, rather than compare to the strength of the examiner. Parkinsonism should be looked for and gait should be observed. Neurological assessment can incorporate a range of cortical abilities and tests of autonomic function, but the extent of these assessments is likely to be determined by the clinical situation and time available.
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Brudholm, Thomas. Hatred Beyond Bigotry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190465544.003.0004.
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This chapter ponders the value of a focused conceptual examination of hatred for the combating of hate. A common argument found in much scholarship on hate crime and hate speech is that the term “hate” is misleading, and that bias or prejudice does a better job. However, this assertion is generally based on scanty consideration as to the concept of hatred itself. In order to qualify the conversation about hatred today, the chapter returns to Plato’s conceptualization of misology in the Phaedo and Aristotle’s account of hatred in the Rhetoric. This exploration among other things shows that there is a long tradition for thinking about certain forms of hatred as prejudice, but also that hatred can be approached as a reasonable and reason responsive feeling, rather than simply irrational and bad. The chapter mobilizes these philosophical readings for the purpose of reconsidering the question whether “hate” is indeed a misnomer.
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Aronson, Amy. Crystal Eastman. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199948734.001.0001.
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Crystal Eastman was a central figure in many of the defining social movements of the twentieth century—labor, feminism, internationalism, free speech, peace. She drafted America’s first serious workers’ compensation law. She helped found the National Woman’s Party and is credited as coauthor of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). She helped found the Woman’s Peace Party—today, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)—and the American Union against Militarism. She copublished the Liberator magazine. And she engineered the founding the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Eastman worked side by side with national and international suffrage leaders, renowned Progressive reformers and legislators, birth control advocates, civil rights champions, and revolutionary writers and artists. She traveled with a transatlantic crowd of boundary breakers and innovators. And in virtually every arena she entered, she was one of the most memorable women known to her allies and adversaries alike. Yet today, her legacy is oddly ambiguous. She is commemorated, paradoxically, as one of the most neglected feminist leaders in American history. This first full-length biography recovers the revealing story of a woman who attained rare political influence and left a thought-provoking legacy in ongoing struggles. The social justice issues she cared about—gender equality and human rights, nationalism and globalization, political censorship and media control, worker benefits and family balance, and the monumental questions of war, sovereignty, force, and freedom—remain some of the most consequential questions of our own time.
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Lee, Jongkyung. Zion should receive the outcasts of Moab (Isaiah 16:1–4a). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816768.003.0005.
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In this chapter, the results of a comparative study of the two parallel texts Isa 15-16 and Jer 48, together with the contrasts in style and subject matter between Isa 16:1-5 and the surrounding poem, suggest that 16:1-5 was not part of the original poem about Moab. The sudden 1st person YHWH speech in 15:9b and the clear example of reapplication of an older oracle in 16:13-14 came from one editor sometime during the Neo-Babylonian period before Moab ceased to be a meaningful political force, who understood the original poem to have been in two parts. 16:4b-5 is characterized as an expectation for a future priestly Davidic Messiah, a hope which was more common in the post-exilic period, and it is in 16:1-4a that the vision of 14:1-2 is found to have been applied to the oracle against Moab.
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Olsen, Dale A. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037887.003.0015.
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This chapter summarizes the points of the book and synthesizes many of the attitudes, concepts, and events seen in flutelore. It addresses the question: What is singularly distinct or unique about flutes, flute playing, and flute players in a world context? The first and perhaps foremost reason why flutes are powerful is the direct use of the musician's breath to produce a sound, and breath is the source of life itself, as told to us by many storytellers from many cultures across time. The second reason why flutes are powerful is that whistle sounds are aural characteristics or phenomena not found in normal human speech, song, or chant discourses. The third reason why flutes have power is the pleasing quality of the “beautiful” melodies produced on them. A fourth reason why flutes have power is that they seem to provide a simple but important mythological bond among people, animals, and spirits throughout the world.
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d'Hubert, Thibaut. Literary Urbanity in Mrauk U. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190860332.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 focuses on urban literature and the milieu of the Bengali-speaking dignitaries. I provide a view of the cosmopolitan society of Mrauk U, and I try to locate Bengali-speaking Muslims in this environment. Narrowing down the focus on Ālāol’s immediate entourage, I observe the economy of the courts that he attended. These gatherings were organized by Bengali-speaking Muslim dignitaries who worked for the king of Arakan’s administration. I analyze how Ālāol described the relationship of his patrons and how he used the notion of “grandeur” to articulate the aspects of his own activity as a court poet. In the last section, I focus on a story found in one of Ālāol’s poems, which I read as a mise en abyme of his activity as a man of letters that provides insights into the way he conceived of patronage and the function of speech and eloquence in a courtly context.
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Mikkola, Mari. Pornography. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190640064.001.0001.
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Everyday and philosophical debates concerning pornography are fraught with many difficult questions. These include: What is pornography? What does pornography do (if anything at all)? Is the consumption of pornography a harmless private matter, or does pornography violate women’s civil rights? What, if anything, should legally be done about pornography? Can there be feminist pornography? Answering these questions is complicated by confusion over the conceptual and political commitments of different anti- and pro-pornography positions, and whether these positions are even in tension with one another: different people understand the concept of pornography differently and easily end up talking past one another. This book provides an opinionated and accessible introduction to contemporary philosophical debates on pornography, which will be conducted from a feminist perspective. The book’s starting point is morally neutral, and it provides a comprehensive discussion of various philosophical positions on pornography that are found in ethics, aesthetics, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and social ontology. Topics include: whether pornography subordinates and silences women; free speech versus hate speech; whether pornography produces a distinct kind of knowledge; whether it objectifies and if so, in what sense; how should we think about the aesthetics of pornography; what difference do nonheteronormative, female-friendly and/or queer pornography make to philosophical debates. The book clarifies different stances in the debate, thus helping readers to understand what is at stake in philosophical examinations of pornography. In so doing, it also offers readers important methodological insights about doing philosophical work on something so this-worldly as pornography.
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Willems, Mo. El Conejito Knuffle: Un Cuento Aleccionador. Hyperion, 2007.
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Willems, Mo. El Conejito Knuffle: Un Cuento Aleccionador. Hyperion, 2007.
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Willkie, Wendell L. Free Enterprise: The Philosophy Of Wendell L. Willkie As Found In His Speeches, Messages And Other Papers. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.
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Jaurretche, Colleen. Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066370.001.0001.
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James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake abounds with prayers from all traditions, and their echoes and cadences may be found on almost every page. Bringing together thinkers from antiquity, the Middle Ages, early Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book argues that Joyce views prayer as theory of language. It gives Joyce a verbal strategy for discussing immaterial things from which he composes his book of the night: image, magic, dreams, and speech. Beginning with the second-century theologian Origen’s treatise On Prayer, as well as the eighteenth-century philosopher and rhetorician Giambattista Vico’s theories of the formation of language and culture, the book argues that Joyce’s use of language as prayer works progressively across the four sections of the novel, creating meaning from its otherwise discrete and associative arrangement. Since Plato, the culture has recognized that religious utterances possess unique characteristics, yet analytical philosophy and literary scholarship have not produced a focused study of prayer. And although brilliant and essential work in the field of genetic criticism shows us Joyce’s building blocks and methods of creation, no book suggests why Finnegans Wake follows the finished order it does. This work meets those needs.
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Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale. Walker Books Ltd, 2005.
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Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale Special Edition. Hyperion Book CH, 2011.
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Carey, C. Greek Orators VI: Apollodorus Against Nearia. Liverpool University Press, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780856685262.001.0001.
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Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek orators for delivery in law courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best of them have great vitality. There is no crude, primitive stage of development: the earliest speeches are perfect in form and highly sophisticated in technique. They inform the reader about aspects of Greek society and about their moral values, in a direct and illuminating way not paralleled in other literature.
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Byrd, James P. A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190902797.001.0001.
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In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said both North and South “read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.” Lincoln quoted several biblical texts in this address—which, according to Frederick Douglass, “sounded more like a sermon than a state paper.” The Bible, as Lincoln’s famous speech illustrated, saturated the Civil War. This book offers the most thorough analysis yet of how Americans enlisted scripture to fight the Civil War. As this insightful narrative reveals, no book was more important to the Civil War than the Bible. From Massachusetts to Mississippi and beyond, the Bible was the nation’s most read and most respected book. It brought to mind sacred history and sacrifice. It presented a drama of salvation and damnation, of providence and judgment. It was also a book of war. Americans cited the Bible in addressing many wartime issues, including slavery, secession, patriotism, federal versus state authority, white supremacy, and violence. In scripture, both Union and Confederate soldiers found inspiration for dying and killing like never before in the nation’s history. With approximately 750,000 fatalities, the Civil War was the deadliest of the nation’s wars. Americans fought the Civil War with Bibles in hand, with both sides calling the war just and sacred. This is a book about how Americans enlisted the Bible in the nation’s most bloody, and arguably most biblically saturated war.
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Yamamoto, Eric K. In the Shadow of Korematsu. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190878955.001.0001.
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The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass Japanese American internment (incarceration) link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the era in America darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association, and speech, and one marked by increasingly volatile protests against racial and religious discrimination. This book discusses the broad civil liberties challenges posed by these past-into-the-future linkages, highlighting pressing questions about the significance of judicial independence for a constitutional democracy committed both to security and to the rule of law. First, the book portrays the present-day significance of the Supreme Court’s discredited yet never overruled 1944 Korematsu decision—a decision later found in the coram nobis cases to be driven by the government’s presentation of “intentional falsehoods” and “willful historical inaccuracies” to the Court. Second, the book implicates prospects for judicial independence in adjudging harassment, exclusion, and incarceration disputes in contemporary America and beyond. Third, and even more broadly for security and liberty controversies, the book engages the American populace in shaping law and policy at the ground level by placing the courts’ legitimacy on center stage. It addresses how critical legal advocacy and organized public pressure targeting judges and policymakers—realpolitik advocacy—at times can foster judicial fealty to constitutional principles while promoting accountability of the elective branches. Finally it addresses who we are as Americans and whether we are genuinely committed to a checks-and-balances democracy governed by the Constitution.
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Hedenström, Anders. Flight. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0032.
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Animal flight represents a great challenge and model for biomimetic design efforts. Powered flight at low speeds requires not only appropriate lifting surfaces (wings) and actuator (engine), but also an advanced sensory control system to allow maneuvering in confined spaces, and take-off and landing. Millions of years of evolutionary tinkering has resulted in modern birds and bats, which are achieve controlled maneuvering flight as well as hovering and cruising flight with trans-continental non-stop migratory flights enduring several days in some bird species. Unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms allows for hovering and slow flight in insects, birds and bats, such as for example the delayed stall with a leading edge vortex used to enhance lift at slows speeds. By studying animal flight with the aim of mimicking key adaptations allowing flight as found in animals, engineers will be able to design micro air vehicles of similar capacities.
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Esteves, Fabio Peroba, and James R. Galt. SPECT Attenuation Correction. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199392094.003.0009.
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Attenuation correction minimizes the impact of body habitus on the acquired myocardial count distribution. The superior diagnostic performance of corrected over uncorrected SPECT images is due to improved specificity and normalcy rate. The transmission image used for attenuation correction is obtained using CT or Gd-153 line sources. Artifactual defects may develop with attenuation correction if the transmission image is truncated, of poor count density, significantly contaminated by downscatter or misregistered with the emission image. Attenuation correction can help decrease the radiation exposure to the patient and improve the workflow in the nuclear laboratory by obviating the need for rest imaging on stress-first myocardial perfusion SPECT protocols. Coronary calcium on the CT attenuation image can add diagnostic and prognostic value to normal myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients without known coronary artery disease. Incidental noncardiac findings of potential clinical relevance are frequently found on the CT attenuation image and should be described on the clinical report.
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Thomas, Emily. Scene Setting. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807933.003.0002.
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Absolute Time studies roughly a century of British metaphysics, starting from the 1640s. This chapter contextualizes this period of history, both philosophically and more widely. It opens with a speedy and extremely selective Cook’s tour of the history of philosophy of time leading up to seventeenth-century philosophy, emphasizing the work of Aristotle and Plotinus. It continues by describing the metaphysics of time found in a variety of early seventeenth-century British philosophers. The final part of this chapter enters into the wider history of the period, discussing non-philosophical reasons that may have played a role in increasing early modern interest in time: horology, chronology, and apocalypse studies.
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Ludwig, Paul. Xenophon as a Socratic Reader of Thucydides. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.38.
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Xenophon’s “continuation” of Thucydides’ history opens up a perspective on realism as it is found in the speeches and deeds of Thucydides’ Athenians. The Hellenica and, to a lesser extent, the Anabasis enter into a dialogue with Thucydides about realism and the problematic way in which its theory has an impact on practice. Xenophon’s morality contains surprisingly realistic elements, and his peculiar combination of ethics and politics highlights Thucydides’ own intense interest in the morality and piety of his characters as they struggle with the claims of natural necessity. Moral agency is shown to depend on morale. The perception of necessity sometimes destroys, sometimes raises morale.
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Richetti, John. Non-Fictional Discourses and the Novel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0021.
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This chapter looks at how readers of eighteenth-century British fiction seem to have possessed less carefully policed divisions between fact and fiction. It speculates that their credulity was more flexible than that of current critics and readers. Into the 1750s and beyond, many narratives that were obviously fictional featured titles or subtitles that gestured toward the kind of factuality to be found in such ‘news’: fiction that was somehow truthful or claimed a kind of non-literal truth. The chapter notes that, from antiquity onwards historians were ignorant of many things. And of course the classical tradition of historical writing allowed or indeed encouraged invented speeches and concocted descriptions.