23 results on '"Rene Dirven"'
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2. Culture and language: Looking for the 'mind' inside the body
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Professor Farzad Sharifian, Rene Dirven, Ning Yu, and Susanna Niemeier
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- 2008
3. Culture, Body, and Language : Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs Across Cultures and Languages
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Farzad Sharifian, René Dirven, Ning Yu, Susanne Niemeier, Farzad Sharifian, René Dirven, Ning Yu, and Susanne Niemeier
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- Culture, Language and culture, Human body and language
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One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the'mind'and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have explored this theme in length. However, the interaction between culture, body and language has not received the due attention that it deserves. Naturally, any serious exploration of the interface between body, language and culture would require an analytical tool that would capture the ways in which different cultural groups conceptualize their feelings, thinking, and other experiences in relation to body and language. A well-established notion that appears to be promising in this direction is that of cultural models, constituting the building blocks of a group's cultural cognition. The volume results from an attempt to bring together a group of scholars from various language backgrounds to make a collective attempt to explore the relationship between body, language and culture by focusing on conceptualizations of the heart and other internal body organs across a number of languages. The general aim of this venture is to explore (a) the ways in which internal body organs have been employed in different languages to conceptualize human experiences such as emotions and/or workings of the mind, and (b) the cultural models that appear to account for the observed similarities as well as differences of the various conceptualizations of internal body organs. The volume as a whole engages not only with linguistic analyses of terms that refer to internal body organs across different languages but also with the origin of the cultural models that are associated with internal body organs in different cultural systems, such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. Some contributions also discuss their findings in relations to some philosophical doctrines that have addressed the relationship between mind, body, and language, such as that of Descartes.
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- 2008
4. Cognitive Sociolinguistics : Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems
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Gitte Kristiansen, René Dirven, Gitte Kristiansen, and René Dirven
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- Cognitive grammar--Social aspects, Sociolinguistics
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A union of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics was bound to happen. Both proclaim a usage-based approach to language and aim to analyse actual language use in objective ways. Whereas Sociolinguistics is by nature on the outlook for language in its variety, CL can no longer afford to ignore social variation in language as it manifests itself in the usage data. Nor can it fail to adopt an empirical methodology that reflects variation as it actually occurs, beyond the limited knowledge of the individual observer. Conversely, while CL can only benefit from a heightened sensitivity to social aspects, the rich, bottom-up theoretical framework it has developed is likely to contribute to a much better understanding of the meaning of variationist phenomena. The volume brings together fifteen chapters written by prominent scholars testifying of rich empirical and theoretizing research into the social aspects of language variation. Taking a broad view on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the volume covers three main areas: corpus-based research on language variation, cognitive cultural models, and the ideologies of sociopolitical and socio-economic systems.
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- 2008
5. Sociocultural Situatedness
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Roslyn M. Frank, René Dirven, Tom Ziemke, Enrique Bernárdez, Roslyn M. Frank, René Dirven, Tom Ziemke, and Enrique Bernárdez
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The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it. Drawing on theoretical concepts and analytical tools within the purview of cognitive linguistics and related fields, the volume explores the relationship between body, language and mind, focusing on the complex mutually reinforcing relationships holding between the sociocultural contextualisation of language and, inversely, the linguistic contextualisation of culure. Stated differently, the notion of sociocultural situatedness allows for language to be seen as a cultural activity and at the same time as a subtle mechanism for organizing culture and thought. The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary collection of new papers on sociocultural situatedness, bringing together for the first time a wide variety of perspectives and case studies directed explicitly to elucidating the analytical potential of this concept for cognitive linguists and other researchers working in allied fields such as AI, discourse studies and cognitive anthropology. The book brings together several core issues related to the notion of sociocultural situatedness, some of which have been addressed previously, although to a large degree sporadically and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives without fully exploring the possible analytical advantages of this concept as a tool for investigating the role of culturally entrenched schemata in cognition and language. In short, this is the first comprehensive survey of sociocultural situatedness theory.
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- 2008
6. Cognitive English Grammar.
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RADDEN, Günter and René DIRVEN and RADDEN, Günter and René DIRVEN
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- Cognitive grammar, English language--Grammar
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- 2007
7. Cognitive Linguistics : Current Applications and Future Perspectives
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Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven, Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven, and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
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- Cognitive grammar, Cognitive grammar--Methodology
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Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans'experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
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- 2006
8. The Cultural Context in Business Communication
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Evgenia Dovbysh, Susanne Niemeier, Charles Campbell, and Rene Dirven
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Linguistics and Language ,Language and Linguistics - Published
- 2000
9. On Conditionals Again
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Scott A. Schwenter, Angeliki Athanasiadou, and Rene Dirven
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Linguistics and Language ,Language and Linguistics - Published
- 1999
10. The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, Expression, and Theoretical Foundation
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G. Tucker Childs, Susanne Niemeier, and Rene Dirven
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Linguistics and Language ,Contextualization ,Psychoanalysis ,Conceptualization ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Language and Linguistics ,language.human_language ,German ,Negotiation ,Surprise ,language ,Semiotics ,Construal level theory ,Affect (linguistics) ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,media_common - Abstract
1. Introduction (by Niemeier, Susanne) 2. I. Theoretical issues in the analysis of emotion 3. Is the "psychologic" of trust universal? (by Smedslund, Jan) 4. The expressive function of language: Towards a cognitive semantic approach (by Foolen, Ad) 5. Toward a semiotic theory of affect (by Oller, Jr., John W.) 6. Emotions as cause and the cause of emotions (by Dirven, Rene) 7. II. The conceptualization of emotions in specific cultures 8. Dholuo emotional language: An overview (by Omondi, Lucia) 9. The prepositions we use in the construal of emotions: Why do we say fed up with by sick and tired of? (by Osmond, Meredith) 10. Space, reference, and emotional involvement (by Inchaurralde Besga, Carlos) 11. Surprise, surprise: The iconicity-conventionality scale of emotions (by Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara) 12. III. Developmental approaches to emotions 13. The acquisition of verbal expressions for internal states in German: A descriptive, explorative, longitudinal study (by Kauschke, Christina) 14. On the usage of emotional language: A developmental view of the tip of an iceberg (by Bodor, Peter) 15. Emotion talk(s): The role of perspective in the construction of emotions (by Bamberg, Michael) 16. A response to Michael Bamberg (by Wierzbicka, Anna) 17. IV. Emotions in discourse 18. French interjections and their use in discourse: ah dis donc les vieux souvenirs (by Drescher, Martina) 19. The contextualization of affect in reported dialogues (by Gunthner, Susanne) 20. Nonverbal expression of emotions in a business negotiation (by Niemeier, Susanne) 21. Emotions and emotional language in English and German new stories (by Ungerer, Friedrich) 22. Subject Index
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- 1999
11. Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics
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Hubert Cuyckens, René Dirven, John R. Taylor, Hubert Cuyckens, René Dirven, and John R. Taylor
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- Semantics--Congresses, Cognitive grammar--Congresses
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This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered. This book is of interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.
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- 2003
12. Cognitive Models in Language and Thought : Ideology, Metaphors and Meanings
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René Dirven, Roslyn Frank, Martin Pütz, René Dirven, Roslyn Frank, and Martin Pütz
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The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models -'cognitive/cultural models'or'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.
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- 2003
13. Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
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René Dirven, Ralf Pörings, René Dirven, and Ralf Pörings
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- Cognitive grammar, Metaphor, Metonyms
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The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.
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- 2002
14. Language Pedagogy
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Martin Pütz, Susanne Niemeier, René Dirven, Martin Pütz, Susanne Niemeier, and René Dirven
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- Language and languages--Study and teaching, Language acquisition, Cognitive grammar
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As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy. The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive linguistics.
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- 2001
15. Evidence for Linguistic Relativity.
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NIEMEIER, Susanne and René DIRVEN (eds.) and NIEMEIER, Susanne and René DIRVEN (eds.)
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- Discourse analysis--Congresses, Historical linguistics--Congresses
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'This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses related to linguistic relativity, or deal with methodological issues of empirical research.These new approaches to Whorf's hypotheses do not focus on mere theorizing but provide more and more empirical evidence gathered over the last years. They prove in a very sophisticated way that Whorf's ideas were very lucid ones, even if Whorf's insights were framed in a terminology which lacked the flexibility of linguistic categories developed over the last quarter of this century, especially in cognitive linguistics. To date, there is sufficient proof to claim that linguistic relativity is indeed a vital issue, and the current volume confirms a more general trend for rehabilitating Whorf's theory complex and also offers evidence for it. It contains articles written by scholars from various fields of linguistics including phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics and (cross-)cultural semantics, which all contribute to a re-evaluation and partial reformulation of Whorf's thinking.'
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- 2000
16. A Performative Approach to German 'sicher' and Dutch 'zeker'
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Rene Dirven
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German ,language ,Art history ,Performative utterance ,Sociology ,language.human_language - Published
- 1973
17. The cognitive motivation for adjective sequences in attribution
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René Dirven
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English language ,PE1-3729 - Abstract
Adjective sequences in attributive position tend to follow a fairly rigorous order, which was already observed in several structuralist approaches. Thanks to the insights of case grammar, iconicity studies and cognitive linguistics, these adjective sequences can now also be given a semantic, i.e. a conceptual basis. Adjective types that imply some semantic role such as agent, instrument, source, are conceptually and hence also syntactically in close proximity to the noun they modify. Next in proximity are the more “objective” adjective types denoting properties such as size, shape, age and colour. The internal sequence of these four properties can be explained by the principle of saliency, which is supported by observations in language acquisition and language typology research. More “subjective” qualifications such as nice, splendid, wonderful are least inherent to any entity denoted by the noun and consequently, iconically speaking, at the greatest distance from it.
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- 1999
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18. The Scene of Linguistic Action and Its Perspectivization by Speak, Talk, Say and Tell
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Suzette Haden Elgin and Rene Dirven
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Linguistics and Language ,Language and Linguistics - Published
- 1985
19. Functionalism in Linguistics
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Douglas C. Walker, René Dirven, Vilém Fried, Rene Dirven, and Vilem Fried
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Linguistics and Language ,Philosophy ,Functionalism (philosophy of mind) ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics - Published
- 1989
20. The Language of Emotions. Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation.
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NIEMEIER, Susanne and René DIRVEN (eds.) and NIEMEIER, Susanne and René DIRVEN (eds.)
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- Interpersonal communication--Congresses, Language and emotions--Congresses, Emotions--Congresses, Emotions and cognition--Congresses, Emotions--Sociological aspects--Congresses
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'Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our daily lives and interests. A key-role in the interdisciplinary scientific debate about emotions has now been accorded to the study of the language of emotions.The present volume offers a new approach to the study of the language of emotions insofar as it presents theories from very different perspectives. It encompasses studies by scholars from diverse disciplines such as linguistics, sociology, and psychology. The topics of the contributions also cover a range of special fields of interest in four major sections. In a first section, a discussion of theoretical issues in the analysis of emotions is presented. The conceptualization of emotions in specific cultures is analyzed in section 2. Section 3 takes a different inroad into the language of emotions by looking at developmental approaches giving evidence of the fact that the acquisition of the language of emotions is a social achievement that simultaneously determines our experience of these emotions. Section 4 is devoted to emotional language in action, that is, the contributions focus upon different types of texts and analyze how emotions are referred to and expressed in discourse.'
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- 1997
21. The Construal of Space in Language and Thought
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Martin Pütz, René Dirven, Martin Pütz, and René Dirven
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- Space and time in language--Congresses, Cognitive grammar--Congresses
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- 1996
22. The Cultural Context in Business Communication.
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NIEMEIER, Susanne, Charles P. CAMPBELL and René DIRVEN (eds.) and NIEMEIER, Susanne, Charles P. CAMPBELL and René DIRVEN (eds.)
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- Business writing--Cross-cultural studies, Business communication--Cross-cultural studies
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The Cultural Context in Business Communication focuses on differences and similarities in business negotiations and written communication in intercultural settings. To set the scene, Edward T. Hall looks back at “culture” as an evolutionary concept and Charles Campbell explains the value of classical rhetoric in contemporary cultures. Further contributions present case studies of cross-cultural encounters and discourse aspects in various settings. Steven Weiss explores the proper character of six cultures: Chinese, French, Japanese, Mexican, Nigerian, and Saudi. Other chapters contrast English with cultures such as Chinese, German, Dutch, Finnish, and Irish. The book closes with two chapters on training for effective business communication and provide models in participatory training and gaming.
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- 1998
23. The Ubiquity of Metaphor. Metaphor in language and thought.
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PAPROTTÉ, Wolf and René DIRVEN (eds.) and PAPROTTÉ, Wolf and René DIRVEN (eds.)
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- Psycholinguistics, Metaphor, Semiotics
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'This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers papers on metaphor and language use. In the third part psychological and psycholinguistic aspects of metaphor are discussed.'
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- 1985
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