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‘Requeiro huma duas e tres vezes’: the confrontation between Ruy López de Villalobos and Jorge de Castro over the Maluku Islands in 1543-4. (2024)
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ANDREWS, J. (in press). ‘Requeiro huma duas e tres vezes’: the confrontation between Ruy López de Villalobos and Jorge de Castro over the Maluku Islands in 1543-4. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies,

This article examines in detail the exchange of letters between Ruy López de Villalobos, captain general of a significant Spanish fleet which landed on the island of Mindanao in February 1543 and the captain of the Portuguese fort on the Malukan isla... Read More about ‘Requeiro huma duas e tres vezes’: the confrontation between Ruy López de Villalobos and Jorge de Castro over the Maluku Islands in 1543-4..

Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers (2024)
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McLelland, N. (in press). 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 the groundbreaking German dictionary (Adelung 1774-86, 2 1793-1801), working fro... Read More about Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers.

Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context (2024)
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Leveridge, F., Mevel, P., & Tsikandilakis, M. (in press). Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context. Journal of Audiovisual Translation,

Situated at the intersection of Psychology, Film Studies, Accessibility Studies and Translation Studies, this article investigates the emotional correlates of two types of subtitles (standard and aesthetically integrated) on audiences in the context... Read More about Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context.

UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) (2024)
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McClaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Dunham, S., Parnell, T., …Tarlinton, R. (2024). UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 224, Article 106117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2024.106117

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: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
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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.

Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum (2023)
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Oergel, M. (in press). Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum. Publications of the English Goethe Society,

This article discusses these two writers as examples of political and cultural commentators who were widely read and well respected in their lifetime but are now either forgotten (Hendrich) or a historical footnote (Brandes). The aim is to illustrate... Read More about Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum.

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2023). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, 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.

Advocating ancient equalities. Pluralising “antiquity” in enlightened universal history (2023)
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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)
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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)
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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.

The influence of advocacy, infrastructure, policy-making, policy arbiters, and policy disruptors on language learning in English secondary schools since 1945 (2022)
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McLelland, N. (2022). The influence of advocacy, infrastructure, policy-making, policy arbiters, and policy disruptors on language learning in English secondary schools since 1945. Documents pour l’Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde, 68, https://doi.org/10.4000/dhfles.8970

Taking the history of languages education policy in England as its case study, this paper examines how the practice of teaching and learning French and other languages has been shaped, in various ways, by advocacy; by institutional infrastructure; an... Read More about The influence of advocacy, infrastructure, policy-making, policy arbiters, and policy disruptors on language learning in English secondary schools since 1945.

Immersive, Creative, Inclusive: Areas of cross-fertilization between accessible captions for D/deaf audiences for the stage and for the screen (2022)
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Mevel, P., Robinson, J., & Tennent, P. (2022). Immersive, Creative, Inclusive: Areas of cross-fertilization between accessible captions for D/deaf audiences for the stage and for the screen. Journal of Audiovisual Translation, 5(2), 176-193. https://doi.org/10.47476/jat.v5i2.2022.227

In a deliberate and valiant effort to adapt to the conditions created by the recent pandemic, many theatre companies across the globe shifted their activities from the stage to online video platforms. But in releasing large portions of their back-cat... Read More about Immersive, Creative, Inclusive: Areas of cross-fertilization between accessible captions for D/deaf audiences for the stage and for the screen.

World(s) apart – Borges Coelho’s Museu da Revolução and Writing in (and of) a Changing World (2022)
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Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2022). World(s) apart – Borges Coelho’s Museu da Revolução and Writing in (and of) a Changing World. Gragoatá - Revista dos Programas de Pós-Graduação do Instituto de Letras da UFF, 27(59), Article e54292. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v27i59.54292

This article will depart from Said’s position on the worldliness of texts and Pheng Cheah’s reflections on postcolonial literature as world literature (2016) towards a reading of João Paulo Borges Coelho’s 2021 novel Museu da Revolução. Borges Coelho... Read More about World(s) apart – Borges Coelho’s Museu da Revolução and Writing in (and of) a Changing World.