Creativity, Community, Change: Functions of and motives for singing niggunim by Ruth Illman

“…This article focuses on contemporary practices of niggunim – the (mostly) wordless melodies with roots in Hasidic Jewish traditions, sung, chanted and sometimes danced in preparation for, or as a form of, ardent prayer. …”
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Motion events in English as a fourth language: a linguistic analysis of a selected episode in multilingual learner narratives by Martina Irsara

“…The focus was placed on the learners’ references to the animate beings featured in the story and their use of verbs and satellites in order to describe the movement situations elicited from the image selected for analysis from the wordless picture story the teenagers had to retell in words. …”
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Effect of the content complexity on hesitations in adolescents’ narratives by Ovchinnikova Irina

“…The adolescents rarely turn to repair their narratives but often interrupt the speech flow by pauses while telling a story stimulated by a wordless book. The lack of self-corrections reflects the specific problems with self-control and self-regulation due to immaturity of the executive function. …”
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Le dessin de design en tant qu’œuvre en soi by Airton Cattani

“…Design drawing can therefore be considered as a kind of translation of the designer’s work into a wordless language, which can supposedly be decoded universally. …”
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Beauty and Dao: The Transcendental Expressions of Nature from Emerson’s Prose and the <i>Zhuangzi</i> by Xuehong Jia, Dongyue Wu

“…Great Beauty of heaven and earth) as a manifestation of the function of the wordless Dao. Nature, intact from any human interference, becomes the common intermediary for Emerson and the <i>Zhuangzi</i> to elaborate on the connotations of beauty. …”
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Language intellectualization in new media: evolution of genre paradigm by Dmytro Dergach

“…DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/APULTP.2022.44.48-67 The article verbalizes author's position, concerning the intellectualization of genre system of media communication (as a result of communication forms' changes in modern society) and determines the criteria for its professional analysis. These are linguistic, functional and stylistic, linguocultural and sociolinguistic dimensions of evolution of forms of social communication in mass-media sphere. …”
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New Testament Names in the Text of the Ladder of John Climacus by Tatiana G. Popova

“…These errors were eliminated from the text of later manuscripts. The analysis identified four words that are absent in the historical dictionaries of the Russian and Old Slavonic languages (bezvrednitsa ‘dispassion’, besslovesne ‘wordlessly’, zluderzhanie ‘rancor’, suprotivpremeneniе ‘transformation’).…”
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