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Figured Worlds of Addiction: A Content Analysis of 10 YAL Texts
While the opioid epidemic rages on in the US, adolescent drug use and abuse is often left unaddressed in university and public-school classrooms. In...
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Infants and Children Exposed to HIV and Substance Abuse
Much has been written about the physical and neurodevelopmental effects of drug exposure on develo** babies, infants, children, and adolescents....
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Introduction
This chapter begins by defining the concept of social support and examining the situations of people suffering from anxiety and/or depression in...
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Abbreviations, Acronyms, False Friends, Spelling
Only use abbreviations for words such as figure and appendix, when such words are associated with a number.
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Children’s Thoughts on Wonder in Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are a means to introduce the Polish language and social education exercises in Polish kindergartens and schools (early childhood...
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Fallacies in Medicine and Health Critical Thinking, Argumentation and Communication
This textbook examines the ways in which arguments may be used and abused in medicine and health. The central claim is that a group of arguments...
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Core Student Identity in Classroom Presentations
Building on the descriptions of the classroom presentation genre and student identity provided in earlier chapters, this chapter describes the...
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The Madness Narrative in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher
The study attempts to trace diachronic evidence of attitudes towards madness in literature translated into Greek. It explores three Greek...
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Pragmatic Disorders in the Twenty-First Century
In 40 years, pragmatics has moved from a position of relative obscurity in the study of language disorder to become an area of central interest to...
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“She Wished Someone Would Help Them”: PTSD and Empathy in the Six of Crows Duology
Drawing on cognitive criticism, and using Theory of Mind, transportation, and imaginative resistance as a framework, this essay analyzes the ways in...
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Re-reading in the Pandemic
This chapter examines how participants in our data reported returning to books that they had previously read which offered familiarity, reliability,...
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Giving Support Through Multifunctional Self-disclosure
Previous studies have indicated that self-disclosure post messages are prevalent in online self-help groups. These studies tend to employ...
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Introduction
This chapter provides the background information of the study presented in the book. It starts by defining the scientific scope of the study, which...
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English Loanwords in Russian and Croatian and Their Integration Into the Word-Formation Processes
The beginning of the 21st century is characterised by radical changes in the social, economic, political and cultural spheres worldwide. Furthermore,...
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Slippery Slope Arguments
Of all the informal fallacies used in medicine and health, none is more prominent than the slippery slope argument. Issues such as the legalization...
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A Contrastive Analysis of Placement Verbs in German and Dutch
German and Dutch are two closely related Germanic languages that use many posture and placement verbs, not only to describe the concrete position of...
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Introduction
This chapter provides a context for and establishes the approach that is adopted in the book. First, I contextualise the synchronous conversational...
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Introduction
This chapter defines the notion of self-presentation from a Goffmanian approach, problematizing the distinction between front and backstage, with...
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Empirical Research
A review of the usage-based linguistics literature reveals multiple macro-approaches providing a wide range of research findings. A number of case...