This paper addresses the quality of the Persian translations of 32 English tourism textbooks. The qual- ity was assessed at sentence-level and page-level by the researchers and from the viewpoint of a tour- ism management student. In Phase 1, the quality of one randomly selected sentence from each text- book was assessed applying Hurtado Albir‘s analytical model; two were acc...

Metadiscourse features are those facets of a text, which make the organization of the text explicit, provide information about the writer's attitude toward the text content, and engage the reader in the interaction. This study interpreted metadiscourse markers in translated and non-translated persuasive texts. To this end, the researcher chose the translated versions of one of the leading newsp...

Demeter is a text-based prototype game that demonstrates the Marlinspike architecture for producing computer-based interactive dramas. Marlinspike uses a top-down, directed approach to generating stories: a central drama manager agent responds to story-significant user actions by selecting the next scene to play from a pre-authored collection. This drama manager strives to explicitly reincorpor...

“Variablengattung” is translated as “type of variables” or “variable type;” “Art von Variablen” as “sort of variables.” “Inhaltlich” is rendered as “contentually,” “methodisch” as “methodical.” The long quotations from Hilbert are in a quote environment, without quotation marks. The German text (and page numbering) is from Hilbert’s Gesammelte Abhandlungen, vol. 3, p. 196–216. Many references i...

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These strike me as the sharpest edges of The Dubious Spectacle, but I’ve hardly done justice to the whole; there are surprising chapters on American drama (there’s no better successor to Bentley’s “Trying to Like O’Neill” than Blau’s “The Pipe Dreams of Eugene O’Neill in the Age of Deconstruction”), and on photography, and the essays are studded with moving appreciations of several colleagues, ...