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Manuel Antônio de Almeida

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Homily

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Tchicaya U Tam’si Prize for African Poetry

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Charles Bukowski

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Juncture

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Juncture, in linguistics, refers to the way sounds change when moving from one syllable to the next during speech. A key type of juncture is a clue that helps listeners tell apart two groups of sounds that are the same but have different meanings.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote novels and plays. His novel The Master and Margarita, which was published after his death, is considered one of the greatest works of the 20th century. He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins.

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Andrej Nikolaidis

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Andrej Nikolaidis (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Андреј Николаидис; Greek: Ανδρέας Νικολαΐδης; born May 7, 1974) is a Montenegrin and Bosnian novelist, columnist, and political adviser. His novel Sin (The Son) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011. The English version was published in 2013 by Istros Books in the United Kingdom.

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Cognitive dissonance

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In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is a mental condition where people hold ideas, beliefs, or actions that conflict with one another, often without realizing it. When people face situations that highlight these conflicts, they are motivated to change their thoughts or actions to reduce the discomfort caused by the conflict. This can happen by adjusting a belief, explaining away a situation, or taking steps to make the conflicting ideas seem less inconsistent.

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Macaronic language

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Macaronic language is a type of expression that mixes different languages, especially when bilingual puns are used or when languages are combined in the same situation instead of being separated into different parts of a text. Hybrid words are similar because they mix parts of different languages within a single word. In spoken language, code-switching happens when someone uses more than one language or dialect during the same conversation.

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Historical linguistics

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Historical linguistics, also called diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It aims to understand why languages change and how they have evolved over time. This field includes several important areas of study, such as rebuilding the languages that came before modern ones, grouping languages into families by comparing them (called comparative linguistics), and examining how culture and society influence language development.

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