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\"Not-your-ordinary alphabet book with clever and saucy rhymes by Jeanne Steig, accompanied by illustrations by William Steig\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reading poetry
Poetry reading is a topic about which there is always something more that can usefully be said. This book explores key aspects of poetry by discussing poems which are quoted in full and then treated in a sustained way. It considers a broad range of poetry, using examples taken from the Tudor period to the twenty-first century. Some are very traditional, and some are very avant-garde, and most are somewhere in between, so it is unusually broad and eclectic in its generic range. The book invites readers to cultivate generic generosity, and entertain a willingness to be astonished by the bizarre practices poets sometimes indulge in, in the privacy of their garrets, and among consenting adults. The emphasis is on meanings rather than words, looking beyond technical devices like alliteration and assonance so that poems are understood as dynamic structures creating specific ends and effects. The three sections cover progressively expanding areas. The first deals with such basics as imagery, diction and metre; the second concerns broader matters, such as poetry and context, and the reading of sequences of poems. The third section looks at 'theorised' readings and the 'textual genesis' of poems from manuscript to print. By adopting a smallish personal 'stable' of writers whose work is followed in this long-term way, a poetry reader can develop the kind of intimacy with authors that brings a sense of confidence and purpose.
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Rhyme as resonance in poetry comprehension: An expert–novice study
Previous research has identified alliteration as a powerful device for investigating implicit memory effects. For example, alliterative phrases can provide retrieval cues that extend to a sublexical level and reactivate previous information that shares alliterative content (Lea et al.,
Psychological Science
,
19
[7], 709–716, 2008). But it is an open question if other surface forms might provide similar effects in line with these empirical findings, and in accord with writer intuitions. The present study examined whether rhyme produces analogous memory-reactivation effects, given the ubiquity of its use and endorsement of its power in a range of materials and experiences. We also examined whether the surface benefits attributed to rhyme might support anticipatory processes such as those traditionally examined with semantic content. In Experiment
1
, participants exhibited faster recognition responses to previous poetic content as a function of rhyming cues. In Experiment
2
, we recruited participants identified as experts on the study and use of rhyme, replicating the probe facilitations obtained in Experiment 1, but also revealing anticipations of imminent rhymes. The results are discussed in terms of implications for theories of memory-based text processing and of nonsemantic anticipatory processes during the reading of poetry, and perhaps for discourse experiences more generally.
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Animal albums from A to Z
\"Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring animal artists. The bouncing harmonies of the Barbershop Beagles, the elegant crooning of the elephant Ella Fontaine, the hilarious rhymes of the Hip-Hop Hedgehogs--all are represented in this quirky ABC book that draws on the creator's personal collection of albums, memorabilia, and lyrics dating between 1944 and 1984, the heyday of album design. With wry, witty text, silly and sumptuous sound play, and biographical end matter on all twenty-six musical acts, the book commands and stands up to repeated readings. Bright, zany art--all painted and lettered by hand--a stellar design, and an album-size trim make it a collector's item in its own right, sure to grace the coffee tables of vinyl- and design-loving adults even as it tickles young funny bones. A hootenanny hosted by the creator of the Newbery Honor Book and Eisner Award winner El Deafo, Animal Albums from A to Z also quietly reminds us just how much music can mean to everyone.\" -- From the publisher.
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Translation of Word- and Language-Play
Translation primarily refers to interlingual translation here, i.e., the transfer of texts (broadly understood) between distinct languages. Wordplay is used synonymously with puns, while language-play is a broader concept referring to the intentional manipulation of linguistic elements for special effects. Language-play thus includes, but is not limited to, wordplay. This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in the translation of language-play, including wordplay. To this end, definitions, categories, and arguments related to translation on the one hand, and to word- as well as language-play on the other, are presented. This includes an introduction to different modes, purposes, and challenges of translation, as well as a discussion of the possible forms, functions, and effects of language-play, partly in relation to humour. Based on this groundwork, claims and findings related to the combination of the fields, i.e., the translation of word- and language-play, will be summarized. The paper concludes with an attempt at placing word- and language-play translation into a broader context, including societal and educational concerns, as well as the latest changes affecting the translation profession.
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Notes and Discussions/Discussion: Two Suggestions in the Ciris
This note presents two textual suggestions regarding Ciris 534–535. Réesumé: Cette note présente deux suggestions textuelles concernant Ciris 534–535.
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Big Data and Energy Poverty Alleviation
The focus of this paper is to bring to light the vital issue of energy poverty alleviation and how big data could improve the data collection quality and mechanism. It also explains the vicious circle of low productivity, health risk, environmental pollution and energy poverty and presents currently used energy poverty measures and alleviation policies and stresses the associated problems in application due to the underlying dynamics.
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Dimensions of Parenting Stress as Predictors: Vocabulary and Phonological Awareness Skills in Preschool
This study examined the predictors of young children’s school readiness skills in a low-income sample. Primary caregivers of 78 preschoolers (ages 3–5) participated. Children’s receptive and expressive vocabulary skills and rhyming, alliteration and segment blending skills were measured. Parent perceptions of different types of parental stress and a composite measure of parent literacy-specific involvement were assessed through parent report. Separate hierarchical regression models indicated that after controlling for parental education, child age at preschool testing, and family literacy-specific involvement, total parenting stress significantly predicted four out of five child outcomes. Among all stress factors, parenting stress due to parental distress appeared as the best predictor of preschoolers’ vocabulary skills, while also predicting children’s rhyming and segment blending skills, but not alliteration. Parenting stress due to parent-child dysfunctional interaction predicted children’s receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and alliteration skills, while parenting stress due to child difficulty predicted children’s rhyming skills after the influence of control variables was accounted for. The implications of these results for research and practice with diverse low-income families are discussed.
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Relationships between parenting stress and preschool outcomes were examined.
Separate hierarchical regression models were conducted to address the hypotheses.
Total parenting stress predicted vocabulary and phonological awareness skills.
Types of stress differentially related to vocabulary and phonological awareness.
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'List with Tearful Eye': Mark Twain's Early Battles for Realism against Sentimental Fiction
In this period, Twain \"did a series of finely chiseled parodies of popular newspaper genres, spoofing advice columnists, theatre critics, and local reporters. In the second section, the writer responds as an advice columnist to Aurelia, who must constantly postpone her wedding and reconsider her impending marriage to Williamson Breckenridge Caruthers because he regularly loses his handsomeness, legs, arms, eye, and scalp to diseases, falls, cannon-fire, machinery, and warring Indians. \"13 Into this lampoon of exaggerated devotion common to sentimental romances, critic Don Florence injects the theme of identity, wondering when-in this piecemeal loss of self-Caruthers will cease being the man Aurelia first loved.14 This scenario recalls the trope in these tales in which their heroines are tricked by a villainous suitor, her lover's rival, to believe that the lover is not who she thought he was or of her finally realizing that the villain is not what he pretended to be and that the hero is actually the man she had believed in.15 Peter Messent believes concern for language to be another important theme.16 Franklin Rogers says that beyond revealing \"a new consciousness in his language\" with frequent alliteration (\"He was hurrying home with happiness in his heart\") tending to end in marked rhythms (\"when he lost his hair forever\"), Twain uses \"this alliterative and rhythmic style\" as part of the narrator's pose to suggest his assumed sophistication.17 Twain counters this exaggeration of romance language with his advisor's deadpan approach, but more than contrasting humorously with the content, this matter-of-fact manner also represents aloof reality, not passive, emotionless acceptance. If he does, she can marry him with slight risk because those items and other valuables revert to her if he dies; thereby, she sustains \"no actual loss save the cherished fragments of a noble but most unfortunate husband, who honestly strove to do right, but whose extraordinary instincts were against him.
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