... 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 extinctaltogether. The use of Spanish in Latin America, and particularly inthe US, is,on the other hand, on the increase ... definitions offered in Chapter 1containing within their political borders many nations, whether these be Catalan,Basque, Galician in Spain, or any ofthe many indigenous nations in LatinAmerica.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 ... (SOA [ch -of- loc-relFIG ElThat is, as (16) above captures, in German trim-ming necessarily results in trimming somethingoff something else; inthe case of example (9)above trimming the bush ... representative verb of the impingement predicates class in German, the verbschlagen (hit) in examples (10)-(12) above, wepropose the semantic types in (17) and (18), whichare inthe spirit ofthe MRS-based...
... requencyT(Wi)SizeT 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 Dwith respect to the coverage ofthe same class in the ... expressing theirtrue opinion on the topic. Next, they were askedto prepare a second brief speech expressing the op-posite of their opinion, thus lying about their truebeliefs about the topic. In ... using a Na¨ıve Bayes (NB) or Support Vec-tor Machines (SVM) classifierTo gain further insight into the variation of ac-curacy with the amount of data available, we alsoplotted the learning...
... trends include the increasing popularity of convenience foods, the decreasing amount of time devoted to preparingmeals, the falling share of money de voted to food inthe household budget, the ... appreciation of food requires anappreciation 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...
... Ifocus on these thinkers, not because ofthe depth of their philosophies of language indeed, their philosophies oflanguage are often not explicit—butrather 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 worldaware of its own consciousness, in awakening it out of its dreamabout...
... illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the mythssurrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital flight and brain drain afflicting ... all the great meanings ofthe modernage, from the Enlightenment to now, of human progress and the civil-ising mission of human intervention. After the eclipsing ofthe socialistproject 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 onecountry 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 isinclined. 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 developmentfinance from the perspective of developing countries. Spero and Hart(2003) summarise the mainstream position on these as the (in) abilityand...