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Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua (2018)
Journal Article
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.

‘That’s Ours. Don’t Touch.’ Nashe Radio and the Consolations of the Domestic Mainstream (2018)
Book Chapter
MCMICHAEL, P. (2018). ‘That’s Ours. Don’t Touch.’ Nashe Radio and the Consolations of the Domestic Mainstream. In V. Strukov, & S. Hudspith (Eds.), Russian Culture in the Age of Globalization (68-98). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315626628

In twenty-first-century Russia the symbolic authority of a generation of rock stars born at around the same time as the current president of the Russian Federation continues to exert itself. Artists like Boris Grebenshchikov (b. 27 November 1953, Len... Read More about ‘That’s Ours. Don’t Touch.’ Nashe Radio and the Consolations of the Domestic Mainstream.

Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Peter Roehr: Field Pulsations (2018)
Book
Hegarty, P., & Hayden, S. (2018). Peter Roehr: Field Pulsations. (bilingual English/German). Snoek

First book-length study of minimalist/pop artist Peter Roehr (1944-68). This book addresses the core themes in his work: repetition, found material, absence of content, minimalism, sound, film, objects, installations. It also considers his work as a... Read More about Peter Roehr: Field Pulsations.

A scandal in letters: Nina Berberova and the Nazi occupation of France (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Mevel, P.-A. (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.

Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen (2018)
Book
Hegarty, P. (2018). Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen. Reaktion Books

This book considers how Peter Gabriel's music, video, performance, multimedia work and political engagement amount to a shifting understanding of location and locatedness. This moves from personal, psychological, historical and mythical location to a... Read More about Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen.

Portraits of the garçonne as artist: gender and creativity in French fiction of the années folles (2018)
Journal Article
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.