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Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua (2018)
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Zhao, H. (2018). Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 4(2), 161-196. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.18003.zha

This study investigates the perception of the variation of neutral tone, a phonetic feature in China’s official language, Putonghua. Specifically, I explore whether native listeners perceive social meanings such as standardness, regional-ness, status... Read More about Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua.

Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain (2018)
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Oergel, M. (2018). Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain. Angermion, 11(1), 31-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2018-0002

This essay presents the early reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Britain. Retrieving this largely forgotten engagement with Arndt, and engagement of Arndt as it turns out, provides two insights. On a more general level it illustrates the influence of... Read More about Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain.

Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten (2018)
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Bartel, H. (2018). Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten. Oxford German Studies, 47(3), 351-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2018.1503473

In Flamingos, Ulrike Almut Sandig’s collection of eleven stories, narrative perspective comes under constant challenge so that these superficially simple texts reveal on closer inspection a multi-layered complexity. The following close readings of a... Read More about Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten.

Fintar o destino: between the colonial bond and a postcolonial double-bind (2018)
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Miranda, R. (2018). Fintar o destino: between the colonial bond and a postcolonial double-bind. Portuguese Studies, 34(2), 148-166. https://doi.org/10.5699/portstudies.34.2.0148

The article addresses Fernando Vendrell’s Fintar o destino [Dribbling Fate] (1998) by considering the appropriation of sports by the Portuguese Estado Novo’s colonialist ideology and policies (inspired by Gilberto Freyre’s lusotropicalist theories).... Read More about Fintar o destino: between the colonial bond and a postcolonial double-bind.

A scandal in letters: Nina Berberova and the Nazi occupation of France (2018)
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Frank, S. (2018). A scandal in letters: Nina Berberova and the Nazi occupation of France. Russian Review, 77(4), 602-620. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12182

© 2018 The Russian Review. This article focuses on the scandal around the Russian émigré writer Nina Berberova in post-war France, when she was accused of having been a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator. Rumours about her alleged Nazi collaboration d... Read More about A scandal in letters: Nina Berberova and the Nazi occupation of France.

Experimental fiction or classical story-telling?: Alexander Kluge’s multi-media authorship (2018)
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Uecker, M. (2018). Experimental fiction or classical story-telling?: Alexander Kluge’s multi-media authorship. Monatshefte, 110(3), 364-386

Alexander Kluge has created a huge oeuvre concerned with history and story-telling. His books, combine short narrative forms into large constructions in which the different parts all complement each other and create a seemingly never-ending series of... Read More about Experimental fiction or classical story-telling?: Alexander Kluge’s multi-media authorship.

Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen (2018)
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Oergel, M. (2018). Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen. Comparative Critical Studies, 15(2), 183-205. https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2018.0288

The aim of this essay is to investigate the concepts of cultural identity and national sovereignty as they emerge in radical German nationalism after 1806 in relation to French Revolutionary ideas and seek to reconstruct a radical revolutionary, i.e.... Read More about Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen.

Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics (2018)
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McLelland, N. (2018). Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 19(1), 28-54. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00012.mcl

Foreign language learning manuals can be valuable sources for the history of pragmatics and historical pragmatics. They may contain explicit guidance on pragmatics not found in native-speaker grammars: for example, accounts of German forms of address... Read More about Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics.

"Hood films" et films de banlieue: etude comparative des dynamiques linguistiques et culturelles du sous-titrage (2018)
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Mevel, P. (2018). "Hood films" et films de banlieue: etude comparative des dynamiques linguistiques et culturelles du sous-titrage

This article offers a comparative analysis of the way Hood films are subtitled into French on the one hand, and banlieue films are subtitled into English on the other. After placing the two genres in their respective cultural environment, this articl... Read More about "Hood films" et films de banlieue: etude comparative des dynamiques linguistiques et culturelles du sous-titrage.

Portraits of the garçonne as artist: gender and creativity in French fiction of the années folles (2018)
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Shingler, K. (2018). Portraits of the garçonne as artist: gender and creativity in French fiction of the années folles. Modern and Contemporary France, 26(4), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2018.1491536

This article examines a series of popular and middlebrow works of fiction from the 1920s which represent the garçonne (the flapper, or androgynous, emancipated young woman) as artist. Challenging the popular view of the années folles as a period of r... Read More about Portraits of the garçonne as artist: gender and creativity in French fiction of the années folles.

Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro (2018)
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Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2018). Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro. Remate de Males, 38(1), https://doi.org/10.20396/remate.v38i1.8651356

“Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho, nomeadamente a abordagem da estória aos indícios do mar Índico, funciona como um ponto de partida para uma reflexão sobre questões de lei, autoridade, força e violência. A estória suplementa literariamen... Read More about Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro.

‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999) (2018)
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Mertens, B. (2018). ‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999). Dutch Crossing, https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2018.1476800

Erwin Mortier’s acclaimed debut novel Marcel, first published nearly twenty years ago, tells the story of a Flemish family haunted by a dark past: the involvement of several members in the wartime collaboration with the German occupier. The novel has... Read More about ‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999).

De la mystique contre-culturelle à un ailleurs écologique (2018)
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Ridon, J. (2018). De la mystique contre-culturelle à un ailleurs écologique. Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, 16, 17-28

L’ailleurs géographique recherché par les voyageurs du 20ième siècle s’est souvent doublé d’une dimension spirituelle. Dans cette quête d’une source mystique à l’existence l’Orient est devenu pour les voyageurs occidentaux le lieu privilégié d’un ail... Read More about De la mystique contre-culturelle à un ailleurs écologique.

In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall (2018)
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Hegarty, P. (2018). In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall. Angelaki, 23(3), 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2018.1473933

Blanchot took Mallarmé’s “Book” as the paradigm for an artwork that aspired to such excess it could not exist. And yet it partly did, in the form of the poem Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard. For Blanchot, this ultimate literary work acted a... Read More about In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall.

Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921 (2018)
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Grocott, C. A., Stockey, G., & Grady, J. (2018). Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921. Labor History, 59(6), 692-719. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2018.1470064

This article examines labour organisation in Gibraltar and its hinterland from c.1902-1921. It demonstrates that the traditionally strong links which had existed between organisations in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain - links based upon a shared be... Read More about Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902-1921.

William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience (2018)
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Carroll, J. (2018). William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience. History of the Human Sciences, 31(3), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118764060

This article discusses the common ground between William James and the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Recent commentators on this overlap have characterised philosophical anthropology as combining science (in particular biology and medicine... Read More about William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience.