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    Translation as an exercise in otherness

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    Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /

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    Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressĂŁo.Esta tese propĂ”e uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporĂąnea atravĂ©s do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do sĂ©culo XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo Ă© demonstrar que Riding nĂŁo apenas possuĂ­a uma poĂ©tica definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instĂąncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cĂąnone" bem como Ă s noçÔes de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cĂąnone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstĂąncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poĂ©ticos em circulação na primeira metade do sĂ©culo XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgĂąncia" e "ambigĂŒidade" da Nova CrĂ­tica-ofereço um panorama crĂ­tico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados Ă  Ă©poca. Minha intenção Ă© demonstrar que os poemas de Riding sĂŁo expressĂ”es vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as vĂĄrias e complexas razĂ”es que levaram Ă  nĂŁo-canonização de Riding estĂŁo a hegemonia da Nova CrĂ­tica, o exĂ­lio voluntĂĄrio de Riding da cena literĂĄria (onde sĂŁo feitas ou desfeitas as reputaçÔes), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos crĂ­ticos que nĂŁo os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuĂ­ram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes crĂ­ticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que estĂĄ em jogo Ă© que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poĂ©tica modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiĂȘncia consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding tĂȘm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem

    The determinants of teacher effectiveness in Portuguese schools

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    This work project analyses the impact of teachers on student exam scores and the determinants of teacher effectiveness in Portuguese schools. The main findings are that teachers are an important component of student achievement and that unobservable characteristics explain most differences in teacher quality. Having a master’s degree has no impact on teacher quality. Unlike their female counterparts male teachers exhibit losses in their teaching effectiveness over the years. We also find positive and significant peer effects between teachers

    Writing Sample

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    Includes FLEETING, WRITTEN IN A HOTEL, SOLARIUM, MEMORY AND REPETITION, ZEITGEIST, MINUTE, c:\polivox.doc, untitled poems, NEW YORK, CITYSCAPE, NAUTILUS, POLIVOX, UPON AN OLD SAYING, IN OPEN MYSTERY, IN THE HOUR OF THE WORLD, and GOOGLE EARTH

    Distortion and Subversion

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    At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music scene joined forces with political militants to foster a new social movement that demanded the universal right to free public transportation. These groups collaborated in numerous venues and media: music shows, protests, festivals, conferences, radio stations, posters, albums, slogans, and digital and printed publications. Throughout this time, the single demand for free public transportation reconceptualized notions of urban space in Brazil and led masses of people across the country to protest. This book shows how the anti-capitalist, anti-bourgeoisie stance present in the discourse of a number of Brazilian bands that performed from the late 1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century in the underground music scenes of Florianópolis and São Paulo encountered a reverberation in the rhetoric emanating from the Campaign for the Free Fare, subsequently known as the Free Fare Movement (Movimento Passe Livre, or MPL). This allowed the engaged bands and the movement for free public transportation to contribute to each other’s development. The book also includes reflections on the Bus Revolt that occurred in the northeastern city of Salvador, unveiling traces of the punk and anarcho-punk movements, and the Revolution Carnivals that occurred in the city of Belo Horizonte, an event that mixed lectures, vegetarianism, protests, soccer, and punk rock music

    Assessing troglomorphic and phylogenetically informative traits in troglobionts: a new cave-dwelling centipede illuminates the evolution of a soil-dwelling lineage (Chilopoda: Geophilidae)

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    Cave-dwelling species are of special interest in evolutionary biology, because (i) many share particular traits associated with the cave habitat (troglomorphic traits), and (ii) some represent relict lineages that may conserve ancestral traits or possibly transitional traits, which may provide insights into the evolution of other highly derived species. However, these different kinds of characters are hard to assess thoroughly in troglobionts belonging to little known terrestrial arthropod groups. We describe a new species of centipedes from the Areias System caves, Brazil, namely, Plutogeophilus jurupariquibaba gen.n. sp.n., which adds to the few putative troglobionts known among Chilopoda Geophilomorpha. We analyzed a suite of characters in the light of a phylogenetic analysis and by direct comparison with epigean relatives, controlling for interindividual variation and its confounding sources. We found that: (i) troglomorphic traits of P. jurupariquibaba may include large body, elongate antennae, elongate legs and claws, and possibly also elongate setae and large coxal pores; (ii) the cave-dwelling Plutogeophilus is the sister lineage of the soil-dwelling Macronicophilus, whose morphology is highly derived and whose phylogenetic position remained unclear; (iii) compared with other extant geophilids, symplesiomorphic traits and apparently intermediate traits found in Plutogeophilus provide insights on the origin of the morphology of Macronicophilus, suggesting a stepwise modification of labrum, forcipular apparatus and ultimate legs, and the derivation of the unique rounded and spiny tip of the second maxillae from a pointed claw

    Reactions to social quotas: a study of Facebook comments in brazilian portuguese

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    This paper aims to discuss how Facebook users reacted to the news that the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) introduced social quotas for socially vulnerable transsexuals, immigrants and refugees. It tries to understand how lexicogrammatical choices might represent the various social entities which are present in users’ comments. Data was automatically scraped from Facebook using Netvizz, and “R” scripts were written to process and analyse linguistic features. Results show that most of the comments are related to the interactions amongst users during the process of taking a stand in favour and against the system of quotas. There are also comments related to prejudice against northeast citizens and states. Grammatical patterns could be identified for each of those general themes present in the comments193211239CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPQ22111/2018-0Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir como os usuĂĄrios do Facebook rea-giram Ă s notĂ­cias de que a Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brasil) introdu-ziu cotas sociais para transexuais, imigrantes e refugiados socialmente vulnerĂĄveis. Este trabalho tenta entender como as escolhas lexicogramati-cais podem representar as vĂĄrias entidades sociais presentes nos comen-tĂĄrios dos usuĂĄrios. A metodologia incluiu a raspagem automĂĄtica de da-dos do Facebook, usando o software Netvizz. O processamento e a anĂĄlise de dados empregavam o software "R", uma linguagem de programação de anĂĄlise estatĂ­stica computacional que permite, alĂ©m de outras funçÔes, ex-trair e analisar dados textuais. Os resultados mostram que a maioria dos comentĂĄrios dos usuĂĄrios estĂĄ relacionada Ă s interaçÔes entre os usuĂĄrios durante o processo de tomada de posição a favor ou contra o sistema de cotas. TambĂ©m existem comentĂĄrios relacionados ao preconceito contra cidadĂŁos e estados do nordeste. PadrĂ”es gramaticais podem ser identifica-dos para cada um desses temas gerais presentes nos comentĂĄrio

    Imigração e o contexto do brexit: redes de colocados e anålise multidimensional aplicadas à avaliação na SFL

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    This article aims to discuss how three conservative UK newspapers (The Sun, The Telegraph and The Daily Star) represent the immigration issue during the days that preceded Brexit. The theoretical framework is based on Systemic-Functional Linguistics (appraisal system) and Corpus Linguistics (factor and collocates analysis). Collocates and network representation were calculated using two programmes (COWO and Gephi), and factor analysis and concordancing were based on R programming language. The results reveal a series of evaluation strategies related to immigrants and to the UK government and its policies. It was also possible to calculate how such strategies co-occur in the texts, obtaining a profile of the newspapers in terms of the most present dimensions and also of which strategies co-occur during instantiation91DossiĂȘ Teoria e AnĂĄlise LinguĂ­stica: Diferentes Abordagens410441CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPQnĂŁo temEste artigo tem por objetivo discutir como trĂȘs jornais conservadores do Reino Unido (The Sun, The Telegraph and The Daily Star) representam a questĂŁo da imigração durante os dias que precederam o Brexit. A base teĂłrica estĂĄ na LinguĂ­stica SistĂȘmico-Funcional (sistema de avaliatividade) e na LinguĂ­stica de Corpus (anĂĄlise fatorial e de colocados). Foram utilizados programas para cĂĄlculo de colocados e representação em rede (COWO e Gephi), sendo que a anĂĄlise fatorial e anĂĄlise de concordĂąncia foi baseada na linguagem de programação R. Os resultados revelam uma sĂ©rie de estratĂ©gias de avaliação, relacionadas aos imigrantes, ao governo do Reino Unido e suas polĂ­ticas. Foi possĂ­vel tambĂ©m levantar como tais estratĂ©gias co-ocorrem nos textos, formando nĂŁo apenas um perfil dos jornais em termos das dimensĂ”es mais presentes, como tambĂ©m de quais estratĂ©gias sĂŁo conjuntamente utilizadas na instanciação de significado
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