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    Building taxonomies. A discourse semantic model of entities and dimensions in biology
    (Routledge, 2021) Hao, Jing
    Science involves nuanced and highly technical distinctions among empirical phenomena. This chapter explores how these deep and multifaceted taxonomies are developed through language in undergraduate biology by examining both pedagogic texts and students written assessments. The chapter presents a major development in modelling ideational meanings within SFL’s discourse semantics. It first builds a system of ‘entity types’ and ‘dimensionality’ from a ‘trinocular’ perspective. It then illustrates how the framework of entities and dimensions can be applied to text analysis by revealing both the diversity and depth of taxonomies demonstrated in a student research report produced at the final year of undergraduate biology. This analysis shows the appliability of the discourse semantic method for examining scientific taxonomies and makes explicit the multitude of ways in which various field-specific resources (presented in Martin and Doran this volume) are realized in language.
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    Chile
    (Springer, 2020) De Amesti Mujica, José; Herrera Ponce, Maria Soledad; Madero Cabib, Ignacio
    During the last three decades Chile has experienced an unprecedented demographic transition due to increased life expectancy and decreased childbirth.This is expected to cause important challenges to economic, health and culturaldimensions among older people in Chile. Furthermore, this is a developing countrycharacterised by a liberal labour market and pension policies and by a male breadwinner culture-locating women in care and domestic tasks at the expense of labourmarket participation. This means that gender plays a key role in the challenges associated with an ageing population. We discuss public policies and recent academicresearch on the economic, health, and cultural dimensions of ageing in Chile
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    Depression and Personality Dysfunction: Towards the Understanding of Complex Depression
    (Springer, 2021) Krause Jacob, Mariane; Behn, Alex
    This introductory chapter presents a focused survey of the literature on the interaction between depression and personality, which represents one of the approaches to the issue of complex depression, which is treated from different perspectives throughout this book. Patients who, in addition to a depression, present with personality dysfunction are more than twice as likely to be nonresponders to treatment compared to patients with common, stand-alone depression. Furthermore, personality styles and the level of structural integration of personality are, as well, related to severity and to the response to treatment. For this reason, in order to assess complex depression and to improve treatment, it is important to deepen our understanding of the interaction of depression and personality. We examine this issue from the perspective of functional domains that are differentially affected in depression concurrent with personality dysfunction and specific personality styles, as well as how the co-occurrence of both impacts on the severity of the condition. The chapter outlines the complex and multimodal relationships between depression and personality dysfunction, discussing specific models for the interaction between depression and borderline personality disorder, on one hand, and personality styles and structural personality integration, on the other hand.