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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin

Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Developing, testing and interpreting Deliberate Metaphor Theory [PDF]

Journal of Pragmatics, 2015
The idea that there is a distinction between the deliberate and non-deliberate use of metaphor is controversial(e.g., Gibbs, 2011; Charteris-Black, 2012). According to the dominant view of metaphor, metaphor works automaticallyandunconsciously(e.g.,Gibbs,2008).Asaresult,deliberatemetaphorusesoundslikeanimpossibility,a‘vacuousidea’even (Gibbs, 2011 ...
Gérard Steen
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Does deliberate metaphor theory have a future?

Journal of Pragmatics, 2015
Does deliberate metaphor theory (DMT) have a future within the interdisciplinary world of metaphor scholarship? My belief is that DMT can possibly make an important contribution to the study of metaphors in communication. However, many of its current assumptions fatally undermine its empirical validity and theoretical credibility.
R. Gibbs
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Do pragmatic signals affect conventional metaphor understanding? A failed test of deliberate metaphor theory

Journal of Pragmatics, 2015
Abstract Different signals, or tuning devices, in language, including certain discourse markers, comparatives, intensifiers and semantic meta-language, sometimes accompany verbal metaphors. Some scholars have claimed that these signals give evidence of “deliberate metaphor” use on the part of speakers and writers.
R. Gibbs
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Review of Steen (2023): Slowing metaphor down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory

Functions of Language
Yang Gao, Deliang Wang
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The function of metaphor framing, deliberate or otherwise, in a social world [PDF]

Metaphor and the Social World, 2017
Metaphor frames highlight certain aspects of a target domain and deemphasize others, thereby encouraging specific patterns of inference. A recent series of studies (Reijnierse, Burgers, Krennmayr, & Steen, 2015;Steen, Reijnierse, & Burgers, 2014),
Paul Thibodeau
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