Thijs Jakob Maarleveld passed away on 11 March 2021, aged 67. Born in Amsterdam 1953, was a figurehead of maritime archaeology north-western Europe. His professional life more than 4...

The few known palatographic studies on Estonian consonants date back to the 1970s, and no research in articulatory phonetics has been practised throughout the following four decades. Recently, the Estonian EPG corpus was recorded using a contemporary EPG system. In the paper we introduce first results on contemporary palatography patterns of Estonian sonorants and compare these to results from ...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...

The activity of real-life trolls and the psychological impact on their victims has been the subject matter of recent television drama, such as Channel 4’s Cyberbully (2015), and horror films with a supernatural twist, such as Unfriended (2015). However, this article explores a key transition in the construction of online social power, from its direct, brutal enforcement by the figure of the tro...

This year we have a change of President, we would like to pass our sincere thanks to Professor Jean McIntosh, OBE who has provided wonderful inspiration to community health nursing researchers for many decades and has been a real figurehead for ICCHNR. Jean now passes the baton to Professor Fiona Ross whom we warmly welcome as ICCHNR President and we look forward to developing a new relationshi...

The philosophical hermeneutics is able to change the Brazilian Judiciary because of the understanding of the characteristics of the human being. It is impossible for humans, to be invested in the function of being a judge, making absolutely neutral decisions, but the philosophical hermeneutics can assist the judge making impartial decisions, based on the federal constitution. The normative lega...

after a long march of history of developments, hermeneutics, the theory of text interpretation, totally focused on understanding, has nowadays been wider scope that eventually includes artworks. hermeneutics refers to different approaches due to its theoretical versatility and associated applied paradigms including ricoeur’s textual hermeneutics. the latter may be best described as text-oriente...

Historical corpora are important resources for different areas. Philology, Human Language Technology, Literary Studies, History, and Lexicography are some that benefit from them. However, compiling historical corpora is different from compiling contemporary corpora. Corpus designers have to deal with several characteristics inherent in historical texts, such as: absence of a spelling standard, ...