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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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Artur Alliksaare alliteratiivsed arhetüübid
Keel ja KirjandusThe article explores the free-verse poetics of Artur Alliksaar (1923–1966), Estonia’s foremost poet of language. Alliksaar faced poverty and repression under the Soviet regime, making it challenging to publish his work.
Arne Merilai
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Everyday governance on the Somalia‐Kenya border: Flourishing without state support
Development Policy Review, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2025.Abstract Motivation How do people living in an insecure borderland beset by civil war and insurgency solve social problems and improve life when they are targeted by counterinsurgency forces, taxed by insurgents, and their villages are too insecure to get state or NGO services?
Patta Scott‐Villiers
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SPEAKING YOUR MIND: THE TRANSLATION OF ORALITY IN MARLEN HAUSHOFER'S PROSE
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 493-507, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article considers how features of spoken language in three of Marlen Haushofer's works, Die Tapetentür (1957), Die Wand (1963) and Die Mansarde (1969), have been translated into English. A close reading of Haushofer's prose demonstrates how she relies on carefully constructed cadences of thought to reach an intermediate point between ...
Isabel Parkinson
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1402-1412, August 2025.ABSTRACT Northern Vietnam, in particular the regions along the international border, is home to a rich diversity of language communities. Important research opportunities have presented themselves in the Tai‐speaking communities in rural districts near Laos with an emphasis on the development and preservation of the Tai languages.
Thi‐Nham Le, Norbert Francis
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Quantifying Prosodic Variability in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
CoRR, 2015 Interest in the mathematical structure of poetry dates back to at least the 19th century: after retiring from his mathematics position, J. J. Sylvester wrote a book on prosody called $\textit{The Laws of Verse}$. Today there is interest in the computer analysis of poems, and this paper discusses how a statistical approach can be applied to this task ...
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THE ‘I’ OF SHAME AND RAGE: CONFESSION AND RUMINATION AT EITHER END OF A MILLENNIUM
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 394-411, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article brings together two texts that differ in numerous respects: the long poem farbe komma dunkel by Levin Westermann (2021) and a devotional text often known as the Bamberg Creed and Confession (Bamberger Glaube und Beichte), transmitted in a twelfth‐century manuscript.
Sarah Bowden +2 more
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 183-219, May 2025.This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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