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Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of ...
Emily A. Williamson
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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 3, Page 248-270, June 2026.Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
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READING UP THE VERSE PATTERN OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING S HOW DO I LOVE THEE?
TEFLIN Journal, 2007 Reading a poem is systematic, distinctive and patterned. Written as a sonnet, How do I Love Thee? is akin to neither Shakespearean nor Petrarchan sonnet. The verse pattern of the sonnet is typical: it is composed of two quatrains and one sestet, rhyming
Ariya Jati
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Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Call‐and‐response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call‐and‐response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and ...
Dastan Abdali, Steven Gilbers
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Ciceroniana On Line, 2020 This contribution suggests the hypothesis of a rather late dating, in the context of the Epicurean tradition, of the anti-sceptical dispute conducted by Lucretius in the fourth book of his poem (spec. vv. 469-521). To this end, some parallels between the
Chiara Rover, CR
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 293-312, March 2026.What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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Mise au Point, 2018 In the Film-maker’s Holiday, Johan van der Keuken repeatedly uses cinematic self-quotation. In doing so, he delivers a variation of the filmed diary that has been little explored until now. Numerous ill-assorted sources punctuate his narrative and create
Caroline Lardy
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Translating the untranslatable: Khal Torabully’s poetics of Coolitude
Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, 2023 In coining the term ‘Coolitude’ to re-imagine and re-vision the indenture experience, Khal Torabully has created a new identity and language, based on the strength and resiliency garnered through the rich intercultural exchanges among indentured workers.
Nancy Naomi Carlson
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Stylistic Analysis of Maya Angelou’s “Woman Work”
English Franca: Academic Journal of English Language and Education, 2020 This paper presented the stylistic analysis of a poem by Maya Angelou, “Woman Work”. This stylistic analysis focused on analyzing two language levels, phonology and syntax, covering the study of sound repetition, transitivity, and pronoun.
Arina Isti'anah +2 more
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