... ideas write of the
role oflanguagein this concept of Spain inthe same vein that Herder saw the
link with language and national identity. They were writing of course at the
36 THE ‘CASTILIANISATION’ ... where the
use of Spanish is largely on the decline and even likely to become extinct
altogether. The use of Spanish in Latin America, and particularly inthe US, is,
on the other hand, on the increase ... definitions offered in Chapter 1
containing within their political borders many nations, whether these be Catalan,
Basque, Galician in Spain, or any ofthe many indigenous nations in Latin
America.
The...
... on specific information in
the text. The students have to use information inthe text to fill inthe provided blanks by
inserting a single word or a group of words.
Filling inthe blank is ... First there is basically visual task, that of
deciphering the marks on the page, the brain receiving signals, from the eyes. Secondly,
there is cognitive task, that of interpreting the visual information, ... 2) there still exist both
strong and weak points inthe process of teaching reading comprehension texts, especially in
the while- reading stage.
In terms of strong points, the condition of...
... part the preserve ofthe few (elites). The
choice of which language or dialect to use to teach (medium of instruction) reflects the
interests of those elite. In countries in which one ofthe languages ... out. In an education system where English dominates the
majority of learners get little benefit from schooling, either in terms of acquiring the
necessary language proficiency or in terms of ...
program in which second and even third languages are added to the learners’ repertoire of
language systems whilst sustaining the primary language through the schooling process
instead of subtractive...
... neither the state-carved niche of insolvency business, nor the formation of a professional body,
but the steady increase in audit work that was to be themakingofthe modern UK accountancy profession. ... collapse ofthe Grays Building Society once again reminded small investors ofthe
assumed role of auditing in safeguarding their deposits. The resulting investigation (Registry of Friendly Societies, ... 112)
The Powerof “Independence”: Defending and Extending the Jurisdiction of
Accounting inthe UK
By
Prem Sikka
Department of Accounting and Financial Management
University of Essex,...
... results in trimming the
dry branches off the bush. And this is what the
semantic type in (16) captures.
3.3 Impingement Predicates
In order to capture the semantic properties of the
arguments ofthe ... (
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That is, as (16) above captures, in German trim-
ming necessarily results in trimming something
off something else; inthe case of example (9)
above trimming the bush ... representative verb of the
impingement predicates
class in German, the verb
schlagen
(hit) in examples (10)-(12) above, we
propose the semantic types in (17) and (18), which
are inthe spirit ofthe MRS-based...
... requency
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T
The dominance score ofthe class C inthe de-
ceptive corpus D is then defined as the ratio be-
tween the coverage ofthe class inthe corpus D
with respect to the coverage ofthe same class in
the ... expressing their
true opinion on the topic. Next, they were asked
to prepare a second brief speech expressing the op-
posite of their opinion, thus lying about their true
beliefs about the topic. In ... using a Na
¨
ıve Bayes (NB) or Support Vec-
tor Machines (SVM) classifier
To gain further insight into the variation of ac-
curacy with the amount of data available, we also
plotted the learning...
... trends include the increasing popularity of
convenience foods, the decreasing amount of time devoted to preparing
meals, the falling share of money de voted to food inthe household budget,
the ... appreciation of food requires an
appreciation ofthe temporal Xow of food from the past into the present into
the future. ‘Slow food’, in Capatti’s view (p. 5), ‘is profoundly linked to the
values ofthe ... and import controls the origins of
which stretch back to the 1930s inthe case ofthe US and as far back as the
nineteenth-century Corn Laws inthe case, for example, ofthe UK.
Agricultural...
... I
focus on these thinkers, not because ofthe depth of their philosophies of
language indeed, their philosophies oflanguage are often not explicit—but
rather because ofthe importance of their political ... Kant, there were further developments of
Rousseauian themes. Fichte’s explicit consideration ofthe problem of the
origin oflanguage finds its source in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of
Inequality. ... each aware ofthe importance ofthe question.
Situating the Dilemma
The reform of consciousness consists only inmakingthe world
aware of its own consciousness, in awakening it out of its dream
about...
... illustrate the inequities of the
trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths
surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of
capital flight and brain drain afflicting ... all the great meanings ofthe modern
age, from the Enlightenment to now, of human progress and the civil-
ising mission of human intervention. After the eclipsing ofthe socialist
project inthe ... that is the book’s aim. In other words, despite all the
recent talk of poverty reduction, behind the scenes the whole industry
of profitable development inthe private sector, promoting profitable...
... at the behest of external powers.
In terms oftheInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) SAPs were the
result of a long evolution, with the principle of conditionality implic-
itly introduced into ... southern Africa in
1994 (just before the end of apartheid) explained that:
The international debt crisis ofthe 1980s, resulted in one
country after another, particularly in Africa, becoming ... powerinthe academic literature of
international political economy has allowed neoliberalism to remain
the dominant ideology ofinternational development theory and for
the Great Predators of the...
... to undermine the critique of global
power to which theinternational worker and social movement is
inclined. It is the ‘gift from the American people’ stamped on the bag
of corn inthe television ... efficiency, but instead:
represent concrete configurations of power; markets are deter-
minations ofpower relations, expressions of lines of force
(domination and subordination) within the global ... be there remain serious problems inthe market for development
finance from the perspective of developing countries. Spero and Hart
(2003) summarise the mainstream position on these as the (in) ability
and...