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L’italiano di Pieter Paul Rubens in qualità di “secretario” di Jan Brueghel dei Velluti

Lingue Culture Mediazioni, 2016
This paper offers a new contribution about Pieter Paul Rubens’ competence with the Italian language, well known since 80’s at least. It’s focused on about thirty letters Rubens wrote for the painter Jan Brueghel The Elder, one of his friends and art ...
Rosa Argenziano
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction

The German Quarterly, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 5-20, Winter 2026.
Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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An educational program addressing tense intercultural communication between Japanese and Chinese students: A Bakhtinian perspective on dialogue and love

Dialogic Pedagogy
In today’s culturally diverse world, the ability to engage in effective communication with individuals from different backgrounds has become increasingly significant.
Atsushi Tajima, Yingmin Jiang
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Semantic primitives and compositionality: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 198-223, January 2026.
Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
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Tra le lingue, tra le culture: intorno al manoscritto italiano “Ville romane: in memoriam” di Vernon Lee

Lingue Culture Mediazioni, 2016
Vernon Lee’s (1856-1935) identity was significantly shaped by her cosmopolitan and multilingual upbringing. Born in France to British parents, she spent her adult life in Italy, and her readings and correspondence suggest that she was a plurilingual ...
Marco Canani
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Hyperglossia in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights [PDF]

HyperCultura, 2021
Using Édouard Glissant’s vision of ‘poetics of relation,’ I intent to demonstrate how Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Flights (2007; 2017) turns significantly responsive to what I have termed ‘hyperglossia.’ Hyperglossia proposes a magnification of Bakhtin's ...
Elidio La Torre Lagares
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Gadamer, Paul and Inspired Speech in Corinth

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 88-102, January 2026.
Abstract The goal of this article is to elucidate two aspects of Hans‐Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics that impinge on the question of transcendence and then to bring them into conversation with the Apostle Paul’s discussion of divinely inspired speech in Corinth.
Benjamin A. Edsall
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Accounting and Conflict in the City: The Sheffield Tree Campaign, Counter‐Accounts, and Bakhtinian Dialogics

Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 637-650, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to our understanding of the use of counter accounting in social movements, through consideration of Bakhtinian dialogics as a theoretical framing. We explore counter and dialogic accounting in a significant socio‐political conflict in the city of Sheffield, UK. Our case covers a public–private partnership (PPP) highway
Xia Shu, Stewart Smyth, Colin Dey, Jim Haslam   +3 more
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Pukka English and the Language of the Other in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2013
A Passage to India differs from Kipling’s luscious use of Indian words or Conrad’s creativity; while Kipling’s Kim returns to the vernacular as a mother-tongue and Conrad uses linguistic distortion as a site of ethical ambiguity, Forster strays from the ...
Catherine Lanone
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