Vigil summarizes sex-related differences in emotivity, and presents a psychological model based on the restrictive assumption that responses to stimuli are dichotomous. The model uses for support the concept of intrasexual selection, but ignores intersexual selection. An alternative hypothesis might be that emotivity signals age: maturity in men and youth in women. Integration requires consider...

In this paper, we discuss the affordances of an approach to representation, interpretation, and democratization sociolinguistic research, which utilizes tools methods theatre. Taking as example a team ethnographic research project conducted across four cities in UK, process creating drama from material observed social practice. Drawing on observations welfare advice centre Chinese community cen...

As audience members shuffled past each other in masks and took their seats at the Minetta Lane Theatre New York City’s West Village during short, frigid days of early 2022, an on-stage monitor playing CNN placed us foment summer 2020. The glowed with footage former president refusing to condemn white teen shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. Before was living room Tyrones’ home, strewn Amazon boxes clutte...

The early reception of German letters in London can be better understood through a close reading the bookseller Constantin Geisweiler's short-lived journal Museum (1800–1801). 1790s have been described as an era literary ‘Germanomania’, numerous translations works appeared for first time English. By 1800, however, increasingly pejorative assessment supposedly pro-Jacobin and atheistic character...

This chapter addresses the differences between the perception of encountering objectionable material on the World Wide Web and the actual percentage of such material. The authors outline the interconnected history of new communication technologies and potentially offensive material and then discuss current public perceptions of such material on the Web. They present the results from a content a...

This is a set of notes relating to an invited talk at the cross-disciplinary workshop on Architectures for Modeling Emotion at the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University in March 2004. The organisers of the workshop note that work on emotions “is often carried out in an ad hoc manner”, and hope to remedy this by focusing on two themes (a) validation of emotion models and architectures, an...

THL.AMERICAN SOCIETY ANTIQUARIAN (AAS),founded in 1812,is the nation’s oldest historical organization. Its library of books, serials, manuscripts, and graphic arts extends from the colonial period through the late nineteenth century. Generations of scholars, graduate students, bibliographers, and independent researchers have studied at the library, “under its generous dome.” This article explor...