While Latin texts are predominant, there are excellent holdings of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Greek manuscripts, vernacular manuscripts in Middle English, Old French Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch or Flemish, and other languages.
Fleming reads and historicizes what he identifies as key texts, elaborating predominant narrative conventions of the genre: mimetic and emetic characters "eliciting imitation or disgust" (27), a structural emphasis on action and consequence, and an authoritative narrative voice that guides or encourages readers' interpretation of the story.
Automated essay evaluation represents a practical solution to this task, however, its main weakness is the predominant focus on vocabulary and text syntax, and limited consideration of text semantics.
Together with leading VoIP service providers, mobile operators, and Internet portals, Droplet is enabling video to overtake audio and text as the predominant communication and interaction mode in telecommunications and social networking.
The first knowledge of the Hittites, then, depends upon the appearance of typically Nesite names among the predominant Assyrian and Hattian names of the texts.
Of course, text messaging is not the predominant way of reaching voters in elections.
Texting and phoning are still the predominant services in mobile communication.
Derek Peterson is a 46-year-old historian and professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studies and preserves East African texts, specifically in Gikuyu and Swahili, to challenge predominant narratives regarding colonialism and nationalism in Africa.
JAMES JENKINS Kensington, Calif., June 18 , 2012To the Editor: The predominant religious movement of the era is fundamentalism, the literal misreading of sacred texts and traditions that motivates world-changing political activism at the expense of rich and complex traditions.
Our understanding of a text does not consist in a faithful adoption of the predominant or authorized readings of the time.
