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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
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Fixación estrutural e desautomatización das locucións / Structural fixedness and defamiliarization of idioms [PDF]
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega, 2015 Neste traballo revísase, en primeiro lugar, o concepto de fixación sintáctica e as implicacións que supón establecer os patróns sintácticos das locucións por seren unidades fixas das linguas.
Inmaculada Penadés Martínez
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THEORIA TO THEORY (AND BACK AGAIN): INTEGRATING MASTERMAN'S WRITINGS ON LANGUAGE AND RELIGION
Zygon, 2022 This article explores three aspects of Masterman's language work and applies them to questions of spiritual intelligence: metaphor, coherence, and ambiguity. First, metaphor, which is ubiquitous in ordinary language, both leads and misleads in religious
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Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.ABSTRACT Climate fiction's dominant futurist imaginaries trend towards resolved futures, particularly in apocalyptic and techno‐utopian representations of our climate futures. These closure‐driven narratives treat the future as a fated, distant event, limiting climate fiction's interrogation of human agency, responsibility, and potential action in the ...
Maryn Gardner
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Ambiguity at play: Open-ended making used in mixed material-participatory research practice
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2017 Design research is distinct from many other creative research practices in its capacity to not only help to identify/express deeper understandings of what is but also to provoke and provide meaningful alternatives/suggestions of what might be. This paper
Hélène Day Fraser
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Satire in Merlinda Bobis' Banana Heart Summer
JPAIR, 2015 Hornedo, a literature icon asserts that "A piece of literature documents the world and the worldview of its author" Accordingly, some literary pieces can provide information on the socio-political and cultural background of a certain society.
Sherill Gilbas
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„Tag ěto viřísení”. On Forms and Functions of Graphic Language Devices
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2017 Normally, the sequences of graphic language devices function as “building material” for morphemes and words. Nevertheless, these sequences sometimes (especially in literary texts) occur in defamiliarized forms.
Petr Mareš
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Modernist Echoes: The Role of Tradition, Language, and Myth in Eliot, Shamlou, and Sepehri [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīThis article attempts to explore the influence of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poetics on the works of Iranian poets, Ahmad Shamlou and Sohrab Sepehri. It examines how these Iranian poets engaged with the concepts of “tradition,” “language,” and “myth” in ...
Reza Omrani, Hamed Habibzadeh
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An Archaic Approach to the poetry of Malik al-Shu'arā Bahār [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغیIn the field of literary criticism, the use of old-fashioned words and phrases, known as archaism, is one way to defamiliarize and emphasize words from a formalist viewpoint.
Parvaneh Valamehr
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Immersion and Defamiliarization [PDF]
Poetics Today, 2018 Miranda Anderson, Stefan Iversen
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