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The "grand tour" and the "Risorgimento": Italy's romantic imaginary in French literature
Gragoatá, 2012 This essay will examine some accounts of French travelers-writers of the nineteenth century, which, in the tradition of the grand tour, described in textual pictures and ecfrasis an imaginary of plastic beauty related to Italian scenes and landscapes ...
Celina Maria Moreira de Mello
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Family Representation in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: A Longitudinal Corpus Analysis, 1996–2024
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Family has long occupied a central place in contemporary cinema in Turkey, yet existing scholarship has largely examined its representation through close readings of selected films or specific themes. This article adopts a different perspective by analyzing family representations across a longitudinal corpus of 850 films produced between 1996 ...
Defne Tüzün +7 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
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Comparative Analysis of Preference in Contemporary and Earlier Texts Using Entropy Measures. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 Mohseni M, Redies C, Gast V.
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how statistical properties of verb–preposition and verb–particle constructions (VPCs) and their interplay in the target language shape second language (L2) production across L2 proficiency levels. We compared phrasal frequency and three contingency measures—mutual information (MI), forward delta P (ΔP), and backward ΔP—of ...
Yanlu Zhong
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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“This is the Work I'm Most Proud of”: K‐Pop Fandom and Children's Multilingual Literacy Practices
The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how children's affective investments in K‐pop generated sustained multilingual literacy practices in an arts‐based bookmaking project. Drawing on Pennycook's concept of language assemblages and Norton's investment framework, and informed by Paris and Alim's distinction between heritage and community practices, we analyse ...
Julie Choi, Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens
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