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The Byzantine Charm Defensive and the Rus (2024)
Book Chapter
White, M. (2024). The Byzantine Charm Defensive and the Rus. In S. Jakobsson, T. Jonsson Hraundal, & D. Segal (Eds.), The Making of the Eastern Vikings (47-62). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers

White Early Rus: The Nexus Of Empires (2024)
Book Chapter
White, M. (2024). White Early Rus: The Nexus Of Empires. In Picturing Russian Empire (19-25). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

THE EAST SLAVS did not always inhabit an empire. At the dawn of East Slavic history in the tenth century, human settlement in the forested zone of eastern Europe consisted of a collection of loosely connected, fortified towns known as Rus. Although a... Read More about White Early Rus: The Nexus Of Empires.

Creative Arts and Eating Disorders in Men (2024)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. (in press). Creative Arts and Eating Disorders in Men. In P. Crawford, & P. Kadetz (Eds.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities (1-10). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Opening a New Space for Health Communication: Twitter and the Discourse of Eating Disorders in Men (2023)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H., & Downs, J. (2023). Opening a New Space for Health Communication: Twitter and the Discourse of Eating Disorders in Men. In G. Brookes, & M. Chałupnik (Eds.), Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health (77-99). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38407-3_4

Eating disorders include—but are not confined to—bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, atypical eating disorders, and anorexia nervosa. Increasing prevalence, notably amongst young people in tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic (Solmi et al., 2021), h... Read More about Opening a New Space for Health Communication: Twitter and the Discourse of Eating Disorders in Men.

Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: the case of France and Quebec (2023)
Book Chapter
Walsh, O., & Humphries, E. (2023). Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: the case of France and Quebec. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism (427-446). Routledge

This chapter considers prescriptivism in the French language from a comparative perspective, focusing on a particular type of metalinguistic text, namely texts providing “language advice”. It provides a discussion of prescriptivism in general, outlin... Read More about Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: the case of France and Quebec.

Desperately Funny: Comedy, Performance and the Musical Moment in Toni Erdmann (2016) (2023)
Book Chapter
Harries, R. (2023). Desperately Funny: Comedy, Performance and the Musical Moment in Toni Erdmann (2016). In A. K. Windisch, C. Tieber, & P. Powrie (Eds.), When Music Takes Over in Film (225-246). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89155-8_12

In a standout scene in Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016), straight-laced management consultant Ines (Sandra Hüller) is quietly coerced by her father Winfried (Peter Simonischek)—here in character as his eccentric alter ego Toni—into singing to a room fu... Read More about Desperately Funny: Comedy, Performance and the Musical Moment in Toni Erdmann (2016).

Language and the prison-house: the cultural rhetoric of Brazil's cultural memory wars (2023)
Book Chapter
Miranda, R. (2023). Language and the prison-house: the cultural rhetoric of Brazil's cultural memory wars. In Culture and Society. Rhetorical Perspectives, Transferential Insights (133-154). Tibilisi, Georgia: New Vision University Press

This chapter aims to explore the contribution of cultural rhetoric towards the critique of cultural memory, taking up as case study the discussions on the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). Partially as a backlash against the work of the Tr... Read More about Language and the prison-house: the cultural rhetoric of Brazil's cultural memory wars.

Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus'1 (2023)
Book Chapter
White, M. (2023). Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus'1. In S. Torres Prieto, & A. Franklin (Eds.), Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts (3-14). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256236-2

The arrival of the Rus’ in the Dnieper region in the mid-9th century gradually led to a reappraisal of relations on the part of the established Byzantine Empire. Where initially the newcomers were considered to be of little strategic importance, stil... Read More about Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus'1.

Translation under Review: Placing the Increased Visibility of Translation in British Reviews into Its Wider Societal Context (2022)
Book Chapter
Gray, M. (2022). Translation under Review: Placing the Increased Visibility of Translation in British Reviews into Its Wider Societal Context. In M. Kornacki, & G. Massey (Eds.), Contextuality in Translation and Interpreting: Selected Papers from the Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning 2020–2021. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

In The Translator’s Invisibility (1995), Lawrence Venuti claims that reviewers contribute to the notion of ‘invisibility’ of the translator by rarely addressing the ‘fact of translation’ at all. He asserts that, on the rare occasions that translation... Read More about Translation under Review: Placing the Increased Visibility of Translation in British Reviews into Its Wider Societal Context.

Cinema, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building in the Sakha Republic (Russia) and Kazakhstan (2022)
Book Chapter
McGinity-Peebles, A. (2022). Cinema, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building in the Sakha Republic (Russia) and Kazakhstan. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1326

In the post-Soviet era, ethnocultural identity and nationhood have been dominant themes in the cinemas of Kazakhstan and the Sakha Republic (officially known as the Republic of Sakha, or Yakutia). Despite their different sociopolitical contexts (unli... Read More about Cinema, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building in the Sakha Republic (Russia) and Kazakhstan.

A ‘Girls’ Illness?' Using Narratives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys in Healthcare Education and Research (2022)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. (2022). A ‘Girls’ Illness?' Using Narratives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys in Healthcare Education and Research. In K. Hinsliff-Smith, J. McGarry, & P. Ali (Eds.), Arts Based Health Care Research: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (69-84). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94423-0_6

This chapter addresses how arts-based approaches can advance healthcare training, therapy and research in the field of eating disorders. It brings to the forefront the under-researched and under-represented topic of eating disorders in men and boys.... Read More about A ‘Girls’ Illness?' Using Narratives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys in Healthcare Education and Research.

Use of Writing Letters and Other Literature Forms to Capture Experiences of Research Participants (2022)
Book Chapter
Hinsliff-Smith, K., McGarry, J., Randa, M. B., Bartel, H., & Langmack, G. (2022). Use of Writing Letters and Other Literature Forms to Capture Experiences of Research Participants. In K. Hinsliff-Smith, J. McGarry, & P. Ali (Eds.), Arts Based Health Care Research: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (121-135). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94423-0_9

Within any form of qualitative research, the researcher’s role is to help the participant share their experiences and to translate and convey the messages often as interview themes and findings. However, often these traditional qualitative approaches... Read More about Use of Writing Letters and Other Literature Forms to Capture Experiences of Research Participants.

Discourse Analysis of Print Media (2022)
Book Chapter
Walsh, O. (2022). Discourse Analysis of Print Media. In Research Methods in Language Attitudes (19-34). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867788.004

This chapter examines how discourse analysis as applied to print media can be used to examine language attitudes. It outlines the main strengths and limitations of this method. One of the most important strengths lies in the fact that the printed pre... Read More about Discourse Analysis of Print Media.

‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film (2021)
Book Chapter
McGinity-Peebles, A. (2021). ‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film. In G. Gergely, & S. Hayward (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to European Cinema (394-403). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027447

Since Putin's third term as president, official discourse of Russian nationhood has become increasingly statist, ethnonationalist, traditionalist and anti-Western in tone and substance. This chapter analyzes the three films, Long and Happy Life, Levi... Read More about ‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film.

The Construction of authority in 20th century language columns in France (2021)
Book Chapter
Walsh, O. (2021). The Construction of authority in 20th century language columns in France. In C. Marimon-Llorca, & S. Schwarze (Eds.), Authoritative Discourse in Language Columns: Linguistic, Ideological and Social Issues (67-94). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18160

This study examines a sample of language columns produced by six different authors in France during three key periods of the 20th century to determine how these authors construct the authority necessary to pronounce on language usage and impose parti... Read More about The Construction of authority in 20th century language columns in France.

Les métaphores dans les chroniques de langage en France et en Suisse (2021)
Book Chapter
Walsh, O., & Cotelli Kureth, S. (2021). Les métaphores dans les chroniques de langage en France et en Suisse. In Les idéologies linguistiques: débats, purismes et stratégies discursives (469-492). Berlin: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Cet article est le premier à proposer une étude contrastive de deux traditions de chroniques de langage en francophonie. Nous analysons les types métaphoriques et les différents usages des métaphores dans les chroniques françaises et suisses romandes... Read More about Les métaphores dans les chroniques de langage en France et en Suisse.