Inventing and ethnicising Slavonic in the long ninth century

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

Inventing human science: eighteenth-century domains

Michael MacDonald's piece on the social history of suicide-represent summaries of an author's previous, more detailed scholarship. A number provide preliminary offerings of new ideas and information, which the reader imagines will go on to appear with elaboration in larger scholarly form. Examples of this last category are Ian Dowbiggin's brief study of theories of paranoia in French mental med...

Re-Inventing the Common Cold Institute for the 21st Century

Over two centuries ago, Edward Jenner performed the first documented Human Viral Challenge (HVC) study with smallpox on the 14th of May 1796 [1], since then the utility of such studies has been apparent. In 1931 Sir Christopher Andrews returned from the US where he had observed the use of chimpanzees in the study of influenza. However, as his return coincided with the great depression, funding ...

the effects of keyword and context methods on pronunciation and receptive/ productive vocabulary of low-intermediate iranian efl learners: short-term and long-term memory in focus

از گذشته تا کنون، تحقیقات بسیاری صورت گرفته است که همگی به گونه ای بر مثمر ثمر بودن استفاده از استراتژی های یادگیری لغت در یک زبان بیگانه اذعان داشته اند. این تحقیق به بررسی تاثیر دو روش مختلف آموزش واژگان انگلیسی (کلیدی و بافتی) بر تلفظ و دانش لغوی فراگیران ایرانی زیر متوسط زبان انگلیسی و بر ماندگاری آن در حافظه می پردازد. به این منظور، تعداد شصت نفر از زبان آموزان ایرانی هشت تا چهارده ساله با...

Vocabularies of Grief and Consolation in Ninth-Century Francia