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Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers (2023)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2023). Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers. Historiographia Linguistica, 50(1), 62-93. https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00131.mcl

This article examines Johann Christoph Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796). The dictionary deserves our attention because it was undertaken by the author of a ground-breaking German dictionary (Adelung 1774-86, 21793-1801), working from... Read More about Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers.

The Canonization of St Francis Xavier in Spanish Habsburg Lands: A Poetry Challenge in Madrid, Sacristy Paintings by André Reinoso in Lisbon and an Altarpiece by Pieter Pawel Rubens in Antwerp (2023)
Journal Article
Andrews, J. (2023). The Canonization of St Francis Xavier in Spanish Habsburg Lands: A Poetry Challenge in Madrid, Sacristy Paintings by André Reinoso in Lisbon and an Altarpiece by Pieter Pawel Rubens in Antwerp. Religions, 14(12), Article 1505. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14121505

This article examines Jesuit representation of the exploits of Francis Xavier, ‘the Apostle of the East’, in celebration of his canonization in 1622 and in the Jesuit campaign to have him canonized prior to that. Pageants in Madrid, Lisbon and Antwer... Read More about The Canonization of St Francis Xavier in Spanish Habsburg Lands: A Poetry Challenge in Madrid, Sacristy Paintings by André Reinoso in Lisbon and an Altarpiece by Pieter Pawel Rubens in Antwerp.

Maappa and The Ungovernable Female Protagonists of Sakha Cinema (2023)
Journal Article
McGinity-Peebles, A., & Khokholova, N. (2023). Maappa and The Ungovernable Female Protagonists of Sakha Cinema. Apparatus, 17, 43-58. https://doi.org/10.17892/app.2023.00017.338

The Sakha Republic, which has produced its own films for more than thirty years, has recently gained the attention of scholars of Russian and Eurasian cinemas globally (Damiens 2014, 2015; Strukov 2018; Romanova 2022; McGinity-Peebles 2022). Frequent... Read More about Maappa and The Ungovernable Female Protagonists of Sakha Cinema.

Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs (2023)
Journal Article
Stojanov, T. (2023). Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs. Lingua, 296, Article 103622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103622

This article analyzes spelling-change conflicts linked to Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. These standard languages share a long history of common sociopolitical identity and high mutual intelligibility, and the spelling standardization p... Read More about Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs.

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.

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

UK Flockdown: Exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices of backyard poultry keepers surrounding Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) (2023)
Working Paper
McClaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Dunham, S., Parnell, T., …Tarlinton, R. UK Flockdown: Exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices of backyard poultry keepers surrounding Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)

The scale of the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) due to the A/H5N1 virus in the United Kingdom is unprecedented. In addition to its economic impact on the commercial poultry sector, the disease has devastated wild bird co... Read More about UK Flockdown: Exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices of backyard poultry keepers surrounding Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).

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.

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2024). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, 43(5), 3999-4015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.

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.

Advocating ancient equalities. Pluralising “antiquity” in enlightened universal history (2023)
Journal Article
Oergel, M. (2023). Advocating ancient equalities. Pluralising “antiquity” in enlightened universal history. Intellectual History Review, 33(3), 411-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2023.2177249

This article investigates the constructions of Hebrew, classical, and “Northern” antiquities put forward by an eighteenth-century network of Anglo-German scholars. It asks to what extent these constructions propose a cultural equality between these c... Read More about Advocating ancient equalities. Pluralising “antiquity” in enlightened universal history.

“It’s a Touchy Subject”: Service Providers’ Perspectives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys (2023)
Journal Article
Foye, U., Mycock, G., & Bartel, H. (2023). “It’s a Touchy Subject”: Service Providers’ Perspectives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys. The Journal of Men's Studies, Article 106082652311530. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265231153087

This study explores the perceptions and experiences of providers of eating disorder services towards men to understand the challenges and barriers experienced by both professionals and patients in addressing the gender bias within this field. A total... Read More about “It’s a Touchy Subject”: Service Providers’ Perspectives of Eating Disorders in Men and Boys.

Innovation vs Practicality vs Entertainment (2023)
Journal Article
Mevel, P., Robinson, J., & Tennent, P. (2023). Innovation vs Practicality vs Entertainment. inTRAlinea: Online Translation Journal, Special issue: Inclusive theatre-making: translation, accessibility and beyond, Article 2595

This article examines the use of inclusive technological solutions to promote accessibility on stage. Specifically, it concentrates on the way technological solutions are developed and integrated into a show’s design both in terms of the immersion an... Read More about Innovation vs Practicality vs Entertainment.