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We observed that the folkbiologic concept LIVING THING is difficult to acquire, and we proposed that acquisition and reasoning of its core constituents and the relations among them are influenced by naming practices, in particular, the interaction between the conceptual structur…

This dissertation offers a study of proper names and naming as a conceptual and thematic anchor in the work of S.Y. Agnon. Proper names, I argue, constitute an underexplored and highly fruitful prism through which to read literature, and specifically Agnon's fiction. My study co…

During the Guatemalan civil war (1962-1996), different forms of anonymity enabled members of the organizations of the social movement, revolutionary militants, and guerrilla combatants to address the popular classes and rural majorities, against the backdrop of generalized milit…