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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

British Latinx Authors in Conversation: Writing Ourselves Visible

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This interview continued a conversation initiated at the panel ‘British Latin American Literature: Writing Ourselves Visible’, held at the 2024 Literary Leicester Festival (University of Leicester, UK), organised and chaired by Dr Emma Staniland (ES), at which Argentine‐British poet Leo Boix (LB), Peruvian‐British author of novels and short ...
Emma Staniland
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Walking and Perceptions of Danger in Various Cities

open access: yesCity &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Mauss' classic idea of walking as one of many “techniques of the body,” this essay reflects on how perceptions of danger shape how one walks in various cities. I draw on my own research on the limits and possibilities of quantified walking as well as on urban experiences I have had in my life.
Anne Meneley
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Consumption Translation: Exploring Interlingual Translation Within Multilingual (mainland) China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interlingual translation, as defined by Roman Jakobson, refers to the transfer of meaning between languages. However, this concept has often been conflated with linguistic shifts between distinct cultures and nation‐states. To challenge this misconception, I propose the concept of self‐consumption translation (SCT), a subfield of interlingual ...
Bilin (Belen) Liu
wiley   +1 more source

AI and the Subjective Crisis of Knowledge

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious ethicists have observed how the threat of AI‐generated texts, images, and videos accentuates the problems of a “post‐truth” world already linked to algorithms that foster misinformation and echo chambers. There is also a less discussed problem occurring in science as it becomes increasingly dependent on AI's analytic techniques ...
Paul Scherz, Luis Vera
wiley   +1 more source

A genealogy of fish women and other imagined identities: “The mechanics of fluids” in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Fluidity invigorates a utopian home in Chinese Canadian author Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl (2002). In the novel, the fishlike lesbian couple cyclically returns to their aquatic habitat between mortal reincarnations: from last‐century colonial South China to near‐future bio‐capitalistic Canada, where they recurrently experience displacement ...
Qianyi Ma
wiley   +1 more source

The impeccable taste of a publisher: Literary prizes and cultural value from a publishing perspective

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The article discusses the complex relationship between publishers and literary prizes in terms of production, marketing, and the value of literary prizes. The main argument is that publishers are instrumental not only in the creation process of literary fiction receiving prizes but also in using the values adhered to awards and nominations for
Ann Steiner
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts*

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, EarlyView.
Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
wiley   +1 more source

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