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America has generated a great deal of thought and writing in Quebec, but this commentary has never possessed the obsessiveness and anxieties that have characterized English Canadian writing on the United States.
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Mexican Anti-Americanism And Regional Integration in North America
La regionalización es un hecho en Norteamérica; en cambio, el regionalismo apenas si ha despegado. Se han mencionado diversos factores para explicar la falta de desarrollo de las instituciones regionales en Norteamérica, entre los que se mencionan las ...
Brian Bow, Arturo Santa-Cruz
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“A Whale of a Chance”: Thomas E. Dewey, the U.S. South, and the Election of 1948
ABSTRACT This article examines the Republican Party's campaign in the South in 1948. It argues that many national and state Republicans believed that there was a real opportunity for the party's presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, to win Border South states.
Lewis Johnson
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ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Throughout the twentieth century, reformism - which had its origin in the Cordoba movement in 1918 - was part of an extended political culture in Latin America that was nourished and resignified to the rhythm of elements present in the own configurations
César Tcach
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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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ABSTRACT This study presents one of the first comparative analyses of digital nationalism on social media. Using a computational mixed‐method approach—combining supervised, computer‐assisted content analysis with network modelling—it analyses 64,541 tweets from Twitter and 91,063 posts from Weibo surrounding a shared geopolitical flashpoint: President ...
Chris Chao Su, Jun Liu
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The Romanian attitudes and perceptions towards the role(s) that the United States of America have been playing in contemporary politics and history in their relationship with the Romanian state and nation could be roughly characterized as ambiguous and ...
Gabriel C. GHERASIM
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Missing in Action? France and the Politicization of Trade and Investment Agreements
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) and for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada have provoked massive ...
Sophie Meunier +1 more
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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