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Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language (2022)
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Wu, J., McLelland, N., & Dauncey, S. (2022). Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2134879

Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulg... Read More about Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language.

Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives (2022)
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Pearson, M., Allsopp, G., Bartel, H., Singh, P., & Crawford, P. (2022). Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives. Health Expectations, 25(6), 2950-2959. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13602

Background: Healthcare is witnessing a new disease with the emergence of Long Covid; a condition which can result in myriad symptoms, varying in frequency and severity. As new data are emerging to help inform treatment guidelines, the perspectives of... Read More about Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives.

“He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017) (2021)
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MCGINITY-PEEBLES, A. (2021). “He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017). Slavic and East European Journal, 65(4), 681-700

Closeness (Tesnota, dir. Kantemir Balagov, 2017), is a striking example of contemporary Russian cinema due to its sustained focus on two groups of ethnic “others” (Jews and Kabardians) living in one of the poorest and most conflict-ridden areas of Ru... Read More about “He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017).

Alain Ehrenberg : Autonomy and Empowerment (2021)
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Marks, J. (2022). Alain Ehrenberg : Autonomy and Empowerment. French Cultural Studies, 33(2), 105-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211063336

This article considers Alain Ehrenberg's extensive analysis of individualism in contemporary France. It shows how he has traced the emergence of autonomy as a key social value, and it goes on to analyse the distinctive features of Ehrenberg's sociolo... Read More about Alain Ehrenberg : Autonomy and Empowerment.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., …Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages (2021)
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Walsh, O. (2021). Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42(9), 773-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1813146

This special issue provides new perspectives on how standard language ideology (SLI) informs and influences attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ language varieties. Standard languages are commonly viewed as uniform, minimally varying (homogeneous) forms... Read More about Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages.

Assessment of spatial lingual tactile sensitivity using a gratings orientation test (2021)
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Rabitti, N. S., Appiani, M., Cattaneo, C., Ford, R., & Laureati, M. (2021). Assessment of spatial lingual tactile sensitivity using a gratings orientation test. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2021(175), Article e62898. https://doi.org/10.3791/62898

Individual thresholds by R-index estimates are calculated using a gratings orientation test (6 different tools of increasing grating size from 0.20-1.25 mm) to assess spatial lingual tactile sensitivity. During the experiment, the subjects are blindf... Read More about Assessment of spatial lingual tactile sensitivity using a gratings orientation test.

Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing (2021)
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Miranda, R. (2021). Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing. Luso-Brazilian Review, 58(1), 179-204

This article addresses the morpholinguistic and stylistice devices underwriting Freyre’s writing as the notion of “lusotropicalism” is advanced, mainly in the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953) and the accompanying volume Um brasileiro em terras por... Read More about Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing.

Deconstructing Gendered Norms and Reclaiming Gendered Spaces in Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011) (2021)
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McGinity-Peebles, A. (2021). Deconstructing Gendered Norms and Reclaiming Gendered Spaces in Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011). Film Studies, 22(1), 11-29. https://doi.org/10.7227/fs.22.0002

This article focuses on Angelina Nikonova's debut film Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011) and analyses the trajectory of the 'difficult' female protagonist, Marina (Ol'ga Dykhovichnaia), in relation to the spaces she inhabits and reclaims... Read More about Deconstructing Gendered Norms and Reclaiming Gendered Spaces in Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011).

« J’émerveille » : Apollinaire à Londres, 1968 (2021)
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Shingler, K. (2021). « J’émerveille » : Apollinaire à Londres, 1968. Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France, 2021(1), 177-196. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11333-1.p.0177

Cet article se propose d’explorer et de commenter l’exposition organisée à l’Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) de Londres en 1968 pour marquer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Guillaume Apollinaire. Nous nous penchons notamment sur les œuvres comma... Read More about « J’émerveille » : Apollinaire à Londres, 1968.

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Qing Leong, M., Yu, Z., Paterakis, G., Bali, P., Derrfuss, J., …Mitchell, P. (2021). “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01461-7

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in sensitivity to immoral behaviors and cognition compared to non-religious individual. This effect could occur due to perceptual and physiological difference... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.

La Télé-commande (2020)
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Gilonne, Y. (2020). La Télé-commande. Nottingham French Studies, 59(3), 289-310. https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2020.0292

This paper looks at the way the choice of the term ‘cybernetics’ places thought at the heart of a fundamental anology (kybernètes) between ‘piloting’ (a ship) and ‘governing’, thus reducing the conceptual field of ‘command’ to that of ‘control’, whic... Read More about La Télé-commande.

The French language: monocentric or pluricentric? Standard language ideology and attitudes towards the French language in twentieth-century language columns in Quebec (2020)
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Walsh, O. (2021). The French language: monocentric or pluricentric? Standard language ideology and attitudes towards the French language in twentieth-century language columns in Quebec. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42(9), 869-881. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1839085

Quebec has a tradition of language columns, articles discussing questions related to the French language produced by a single author and published regularly in the periodical press. This study examines the content and discourse of a sample of these l... Read More about The French language: monocentric or pluricentric? Standard language ideology and attitudes towards the French language in twentieth-century language columns in Quebec.

Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences (2020)
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Mével, P. A. (2020). Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences. Punctum: International Journal of Semiotics, 06(01), 203-219. https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2020.0010

This article examines the importance of paratext – theoretically and practically – in getting D/deaf audiences to engage with theatrical performances. our notion of ‘accessible paratext’ necessarily involves multimodal forms of translation, and inter... Read More about Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences.

Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999) (2020)
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Mertens, B. (2020). Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999). Journal of Modern Literature, 44(1), 165-182. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.44.1.10

Erwin Mortier’s novel Marcel (1999) addresses the still controversial topic of the Flemish collaboration with the German occupier during the Second World War, and its subsequent repression by the Belgian state. Told from the perspective of a grandchi... Read More about Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999).

Úna ínsula para isleños, tierra adentro (2020)
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Roberts, S., & Mora, J. L. (2020). Úna ínsula para isleños, tierra adentro. Insula, 886, 3-7

This article looks at the intellectual relationship between British Hispanists and Spanish intellectuals at the start of the 1970s.

Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts (2020)
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Gray, M. (2020). Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts. Transletters: International Journal of Translation and Interpreting, 4, 75-97

Darko Suvin argues for an understanding of science fiction as the literature of ‘cognitive estrangement’. This paper will take Suvin’s notion as its starting point, examiningextracts from two works by author Alain Damasio to demonstrate how... Read More about Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts.