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Alumni Authors: Denise Hamilton \u2781
No full textAlumni Authors Series - Spring 2012. The William H. Hannon Library was happy to celebrate some of our acclaimed literary alumnus. Each author discussed their newest works and share a few stories from their days at LMU.
Denise Hamilton (\u2781) - Former Los Angeles Times journalist and Fulbright Scholar Denise Hamilton is known for high-octane crime novels with romantic suspense set in contemporary, multicultural Los Angeles. Her debut The Jasmine Trade was a finalist for the prestigious John Creasey Dagger Award given by the Crime Writers\u27 Assn. Denise is also the editor of Los Angeles Noir, an anthology of new writing that spent two months on bestseller lists, won an Edgar® Award for Best Short Story and the Southern California Independent Booksellers\u27 award for Best Mystery of the Year. Denise has written five books in the Eve Diamond series. Her standalone The Last Embrace set in the Hollywood of 1949, was compared to James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler. Denise\u27s new novel, Damage Control, will be published by Scribner in September 2011. In her spare time, Denise also writes a monthly perfume column for the Los Angeles Times called Uncommon Scents
COLLANA: QUADERNI DI ECOSTORIA
No full textCollana: Quaderni di ecostoria. Direttore collana: direttore: Denise Ulivieri. Comitato Scientifico: Saverio Mecca, Olimpia Niglio, Piero Pierotti, Denise Ulivieri//
Questa Collana si propone di pubblicare contributi originali di giovani studiosi che si occupano di ecostoria. L'analisi ecostorica consente di fare storia anche quando le fonti tradizionali per necessità sono costrette ad arrestarsi. L'ecostoria, infatti, è un contenitore assai capace e ha l'esigenza di muoversi su un livello di ricerca dettagliato e documentato dal punto di vista analitico se vuole raggiungere risultati di sintesi scientificamente rigorosi
Il metodo ecostorico. Raccolta di saggi a cura di Denise Ulivieri
No full text“Ecostoria” è lo studio degli insediamenti umani, comunque configurati. Poiché abitare e organizzarsi sul territorio è una necessità per tutti, l’ecostoria è la storia di tutti e soprattutto delle civiltà, dei ceti, dei popoli e perfino degli individui che non potrebbero altrimenti avere una storia riconoscibile. Il metodo ecostorico consente di indagare con rigore oggetti altrimenti non confrontabili, dall’architettura vernacolare al paesaggio, dalle cattedrali all’edilizia delle periferie urbane. Nel volume sono raccolti saggi che riassumono mezzo secolo di esperienza in questo settore di studi, prima e dopo che il termine “ecostoria” entrasse nell’ufficialità
Denise Monson
No full textPhotograph - Denise Monson in front of a house at Calling River, Alberta. Her father ran the Telegraph Office ther
Denise Duhamel, 19th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textDenise Duhamel\u27s book of poetry based on Inuit mythology, The Woman with Two Vaginas, (Salmon Run Press, 1995) was censored in both Canada and Alaska. She is also the author of Kinky (Orchard Press, forthcoming 1997), Girl Soldier (Garden Street Press, 1996), Smile! (Warm Spring Press 1993), and four chapbooks, the most recent of which is How the Sky Fell (Pearl Editions). Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, and Ontario Review, and anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1994 and The Best American Poetry 1993
ESP Across Cultures
No full textThis present volume constitutes the third online edition of ESP Across Cultures.
The decision to change from a paper-based to an online edition has undoubtedly
been beneficial in terms of enjoying greater visibility within the international academic
community. One thing that has not changed over the years, however, since
the inception of the journal in 2004, has been the policy of double-blind peer reviewing,
which means that only a selected number of the papers submitted end up as
being published.
There are seven papers in the current issue, each one analysing a particular aspect
of English for Specific Purposes from a cross-cultural perspective.
The first paper, by Hmoud S. Alotaibi, focuses on research article introductions
in Arabic, analysing the extent to which scholars writing in Arabic in the sphere of
education adhere to the CARS (Create A Research Space) model delineated by John
Swales which was elaborated in particular with regard to the academic conventions
widely adopted in the English-speaking world. Instead of restricting the investigation
to the introductory section as past studies in this field did, the author examines
all of the subheadings and he concludes that all introductions include Move 2 in a
subheading entitled the Problem of the Study, a result that contradicts previous
findings where the paucity of Move 2 was common in non-English RAs, and especially
in Arabic ones.
Patrizia Anesa analyses the websites of the main arbitration centres operating in
Asia from a textual perspective to define how they are discursively constructed and
can be used as promotional tools, thereby helping us to evaluate the importance assumed
by internationalization processes or by local cultural elements in promoting a
particular centre as a seat for international arbitration. She concludes that while
some scholars argue that we are witnessing the ‘Asianization’ of arbitration, with
the increasing bargaining power of Asian parties, on the other hand a phenomenon
of ‘Universal Arbitration’ is also emerging, i.e. a form of convergence of how disputes
are resolved so that parties of any nationality can operate in the same way
with ever fewer language barriers.
In their paper, Mahmood Reza Atai and Fatemeh Asadnia examine the communicative
and promotional function of university homepages by looking at the ‘university
overview’, ‘university mission statement’, and ‘university introduction at a
glance’ genres, using a corpus of 210 texts selected from homepages of the top 500
universities ranked by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The findings
demonstrated that the three genres shared communicative purposes, functional
units, certain moves and steps, socio-academic contexts, and discourse community
members that led to the formation of a genre set.
Gaetano Falco explores ways of using comics in an MA course on translation of
economic texts as a means of stimulating the interest of language students with no
economics skills in order to introduce economics-related lexis and improve thematic
competence in general. He observes that empirical research has shown that films
and comics can indeed be useful resources to teach economic translation to students
with no skills in economics. However, the author warns that the use of comics for
educational purposes may have its drawbacks, e.g. when students deal with complex
sign systems which embody complex economic concepts, where often the humorous
element is lost.
In her paper, Irina Khoutyz describes the differences in how scholars present
their findings in research articles (RA) in international journals in English and in
Beyza Björkman
Christian Burgers
Jan Chovanec
Anda-Elena Cretiu
Erika Dalan
John Douthwaite
Hanem El-Farahaty
Said Faiq
Silvia Ferreri
Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Pedro Fuertes-Olivera
Giuliana Garzone
Christoph Hafner
Ruba Khamam
Anna Loiacono
Geraldine Ludbrook
John McRae
Susan Petrilli
Silvia Pireddu
Tarja Salmi-Tolonen
Jeffrey Segrave
Charlotte Taylor
Margherita Ulrych
John Kenneth White
Jessica Williams
I hope you will enjoy the current issue of this journal and will make the most of
the free access to all past issues.
Christopher Williams
(Chief Editor)
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local journals in Russian. She then looks into the reasons for these differences, seeking
explanations from the sociocultural contexts in which these RAs were written,
as well as providing advice to local authors as to how to make their RAs more competitive
at the international level. The differences include the apparent lack of
structure of Russian RAs with respect to English RAs; the tendency in Russian authors
not to specify the purpose in writing a paper; and the tendency of Russian authors
to present the methodology used in less detail compared with English RAs.
Luisella Leonzini investigates the use of verbal and visual metaphors in economic-
media discourse within the context of the euro crisis by studying the correlation
between linguistic and pictorial metaphors and text-image intersemiotic relations.
The research is based on a cross-analysis of English and Italian editorial
articles published between 2009 and 2012. In both corpora, metaphorical realizations
frame the economic crisis which hit the single currency and the eurozone in
2009 as a partial collapse and hint at a possible return to stability in the form of a
recovery. The aim of this paper is to analyse the collapse/caduta and
recovery/ripresa metaphors across languages in the press.
Ian Robinson reports on using corpus linguistics to aid students in writing a creative
text. He looks at the available literature to help understand what is meant by
‘creativity’. A worksheet was prepared using a corpus linguistic analysis of modern,
English versions of the stories of the Brothers Grimm. This worksheet was constructed
with the use of a specialized corpus, and a stop-list was created which contained
single words as well as word clusters found in the tales. Students were then
asked to select some of these words and phrases to help them write stories which
were then analysed, and a follow-up questionnaire was used to elicit the students’
perceptions concerning creativity. The author concludes that creativity is essential
in EFL and that it is something to be fostered in students
Mezzo secolo di ecostoria
No full text“Ecostoria” è lo studio degli insediamenti umani, comunque configurati. Poiché abitare e organizzarsi sul territorio è una necessità per tutti, l'ecostoria è la storia di tutti e soprattutto delle civiltà, dei ceti, dei popoli e perfino degli individui che non potrebbero altrimenti avere una storia riconoscibile. Il metodo ecostorico consente di indagare con rigore oggetti altrimenti non confrontabili, dall'architettura vernacolare al paesaggio, dalle cattedrali all'edilizia delle periferie urbane. Nel volume sono raccolti saggi che riassumono mezzo secolo di esperienza in questo settore di studi, prima e dopo che il termine “ecostoria” entrasse nell'ufficialità
COLLANA: ESEMPI DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA
No full textLa collana, intitolata Esempi di storia dell’architettura diretta da Denise Ulivieri è un contenitore comodo e assai capace dove poter inserire, senza eccezioni, sia gli episodi architettonici d’autore, sia l’”architettura senza autore” costruita in regime di autoprogetto. In verità gli interessi professionali di uno storico non possono trovare estranea nessuna realizzazione dell'uomo. La collana accoglierà monografie dedicate alla storia dell’architettura tutta, senza pregiudizi, dalla cosiddetta architettura canonica, alla “koinè” linguistica-architettonica vernacolare. Non ha senso, infatti, tenere separata l'architettura vernacolare dall'altra architettura. In una città ci sta tutto, dalla catapecchia alla cattedrale. Nello spazio abitato tutto si tiene e tutto può essere ugualmente usato da tutti. Se si parte dalla considerazione, dunque, che l’architettura investe l'assetto spaziale degli ambienti di vita dell'uomo, il contenitore è ancora più capace. L’obiettivo di Esempi di storia dell’architettura è di dare la possibilità a giovani studiosi di divulgare i loro contributi che altrimenti rischiano diversamente di restare nell’oblio di qualche cassetto. Molte tesi di laurea, infatti, sono studi preziosi che per lo più rimangono inconsultati e soprattutto inconsultabili
Denise Green (Art Forum)
No full textDenise Green is an artist and author of the book "Metonymy in contemporary art". She speaks about her art and the concept of metonymy
Transforming a large-lecture course into an active, engaging, and collaborative learning environment
No full textTraditionally, a large lecture hall course follows a teacher-centered approach to instruction. This was the case for the “gateway” course in the undergraduate Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) major in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This paper describes the journey and collaboration between the course instructor and the instructional design/technology specialist to transform a large lecture hall course (with up to 450 students) into an active, collaborative learning experience – one that engages students in learning, emphasizes higher-order thinking skills, and creates a sense of community that can be lacking in such a format. This transformation was realized when the boundaries of the classroom extended into the “online” environment.Peer reviewe
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