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This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. In the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project “Grammar of spok...
Unconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function continues a series of collective volumes comprising studies on onomastics, edited by Oliviu Felecan with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Previous titles in this series include Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2012) and Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space (2013, co-edited with Alina Bugheşiu). In contemporary naming practice, one can distinguish two verbal (linguistic) means of nominal referential identification: a “natural” one, which occurs in the process of conventional, official, canonical, standard naming and results in conventional/official/canonical/standard anthroponyms; a “motiva...
This book provides cutting-edge insights on contemporary geopolitical toponymic policy and practice in post-Soviet countries. It examines the political features of place naming as a reflection of contemporary political discourse. With multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, chapters explore a range of topics drawing on critical political toponymy and traditional methods. Contributions examine how the toponymic system can act as a symbol of national identity, the regional geopolitics of toponymy, and geopolitical patterns in contemporary renaming. The historical roots of toponymic decolonization are analyzed, as well as indigenous toponymy and politics, and toponymic aspects of peop...
A avaliação é um tema complexo e extremamente atual, dada sua importância e presença no âmbito das políticas educacionais e práticas escolares. Ao apresentar um conjunto de trinta e um textos referentes a conceitos, termos e perspectivas da avaliação educacional em suas interfaces com a política educacional, cada qual com indicação de bibliografia complementar, a coletânea organizada por Mary Ângela Teixeira Brandalise certamente se configura como ferramenta imprescindível para os que estudam esta área que, cada vez mais, desafia e atrai pesquisadores.
Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery and Development Explore the freshly updated flagship reference for medicinal chemists and pharmaceutical professionals The newly revised eighth edition of the eight-volume Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery and Development is the latest installment in this celebrated series covering the entirety of the drug development and discovery process. With the addition of expert editors in each subject area, this eight-volume set adds 35 chapters to the extensive existing chapters. New additions include analyses of opioid addiction treatments, antibody and gene therapy for cancer, blood-brain barrier, HIV treatments, and industrial-academic co...
O turismo literário é uma modalidade de turismo cultural dedicada à visita aos lugares onde se encontram elementos – como museus, casas-museus, universidades, cafés etc – em que se realizam eventos que de alguma forma influenciaram as grandes obras ou autores da literatura universal. Aborda os lugares e eventos de textos ficcionais, bem como a vida de seus autores. Isso pode incluir a retomada do caminho de um personagem fictício em um romance, visitar o cenário específico de uma narrativa ou seguir uma história de um romancista. Obra saborosa fruto de um estudo que revela formas de aproximação entre o Turismo e a Literatura, Turismo literário - Sobre escritores e cidades mostra de que maneira atrativos turísticos como os museus-casas de escritores, os restaurantes por eles frequentados e os monumentos erguidos em sua homenagem revelam os seus processos de criação. O livro ressalta ainda maneiras como a organização da linguagem contribui para que turistas se motivem a conhecer diferentes localidades descritas em obras literárias, revisitando o conceito de Turismo Literário e sugerindo roteiros a serem percorridos pela cidade do Rio de Janeiro.