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Vedic Cosmology and Ethics : Selected Studies
How did ‘Vedic man’ think about the destiny of man after death and related ethical issues? That heaven was the abode of the gods was undisputed, but was it also accessible to man in his pursuit of immortality? Was there a realm of the deceased or a hell? What terms were used to indicate these ‘yonder worlds’? What is their location in the cosmos and which cosmographic classifications ar…
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- 9789004400139
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- 184 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 19
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Fragments of Languages
The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic analysis and interpretation of texts and, hence, for the reconstruction of languages. Furthermore, by adopting an innovative perspective, the book aims to test the application of t…
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- 978-90-04-69463-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, Volume: 23
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Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian : The Challenges of Literary Translation
What can translations reveal about the global reception of any authorship? In Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian: The Challenges of Literary Translation, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø compares two novels and six translations of them. The discussion is entirely in English, as all Norwegian versions are back-translated. This study therefore lends itself to comparisons with other languages, and aims to fill…
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- 978-90-04-33717-6
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- 226 pp.
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- Costerus New Series, Volume: 219
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Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Digital World: Evidence-Based Contributio…
This open access book helps teachers include the reading of digital texts in their curriculum. Using ePIRLS, it informs teachers about digital reading and evidence-based teaching principles for digital reading. This publication raises awareness about digital inclusion within schools and how this affects students’ opportunities to learn. This volume describes recent scientific insights regard…
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- 1st Edition
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- 978-3-031-75121-9
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- XII, 138
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Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.
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- 978-1-137-40360-5
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of sea routes was expanded to new interregional networks, new writing systems emerged including the alphabets. The Mediterranean world changed dramatically, and Indo-European langu…
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- 978-90-04-72970-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Volume: 11
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Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important traces in the languages they spoke an…
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- 978-90-04-54863-3
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Volume: 4
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The Jibbali (Shaḥri) Language of Oman = Studies in Semitic Languages and Li…
This book contains a detailed grammatical description of Jibbali (or Shahri), an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with seventy texts. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of Jibbali, and the first collection of texts published in over a hundred years. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The…
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- 1
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- '9789004262850
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- 748 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics,
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Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing
This open access book provides an overview of the recent advances in representation learning theory, algorithms and applications for natural language processing (NLP). It is divided into three parts. Part I presents the representation learning techniques for multiple language entries, including words, phrases, sentences and documents. Part II then introduces the representation techniques for th…
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- 1
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- 9789811555732
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- XXIV, 334 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Re-presenting Research A Guide to Analyzing Popularization Strategies in Sci…
This open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make them noteworthy to society and influential for everyday life. Popularization involves recontextualization, or reimagination of findings in an everyday and newsworthy context, and reformulation, the …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-28174-7
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- XI, 141
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