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political elites position themselves towards the knowledge they communicate, taking also into consideration the several ideological and political aims related with the legitimization of austerity. Our ...
their uncertainty. The third study uses a forced-choice paradigm to assess children’s understanding of a speaker’s politeness presented in audio only, video only and audio-visual formats. Results show ...
Hamas, acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, is a political movement that was founded in 1987 and has, since 2007, been in charge of the Gaza Strip. The movement was initially characterised by a ...
Embedding models are powerful machine-learning-based representations of human language used in a myriad of Natural Language Processing tasks. Due to their ability to learn underlying word association ...
Telecollaboration through videoconferencing is one way of responding to the present situation in education resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as from globalization and innovation in ...
Pragmatics, defined as the ability to use language socially, matters enormously in our day-to-day life and involves both the linguistic and social aspects of human communication. The literature ...
In this doctoral thesis, we address the study of the linguistic evolution of Western medicine disease terms in the Chinese language from 1915 to 2020. This is a parameter that has not yet been ...
Obesity is a pressing health issue and a popular topic in Chinese media. This PhD thesis investigates the metaphors used to talk about obesity in Chinese media. Specifically, this thesis compares the ...
Esta tesis estudia, desde una perspectiva crítica, cómo el conocimiento experto y la autoridad del autor se construyen y legitiman a través de la estructura discursiva de los libros populares sobre ...
The strategic importance of terminology planning, its complexities, and implementation of the policies have been tackled in the literature from distinct points of views. The diversity of discussions and ...
