Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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L1 grammatical attrition through the acquisition of competing L2 discourse features. [PDF]
Smeets L.
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Abstract This essay explores the disturbing presence of anti‐Black language and tropes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's recent, celebrated novel Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum. Drawing on Toni Morrison's classic analysis in Playing in the Dark, I argue Özdamar's anti‐Blackness is characterized by a double‐valence: on one hand, Özdamar's anti‐Blackness ...
Barbara N. Nagel
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REWILDING GERMAN STUDIES: NOTES FROM AN EXPERIMENT
Abstract This contribution reports on the ‘Rewilding German Studies, Rewilding Pedagogies’ event held in January 2024 at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin under the title ‘Day of Dialogue and Reflection’. As well as describing the day's proceedings, we highlight the main points of discussions that emerged between the participants and give insight into ...
Hanna Bingel‐Jones, Tina‐Karen Pusse
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Novel forms for the expression of aspect in heritage Greek across majority languages. [PDF]
Rizou V+3 more
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From messianic subjectivity to immaculate objectivity: An etymology
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nick Groom
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THE OTHER DEMOSTHENES. ON POSSIBLE FORMS OF PHILIATION BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND PHILOLOGY
ABSTRACT Beginning with the oratorial askesis of Demosthenes and its use of nature as a tool for the amplitude and clarity of the human voice as a ‘Vexierbild’, this article suggests that the appropriation of philology to serve a particular end (rather than being an end in itself) risks repeating the very injustice that ecocritical discourses are ...
Elliot Sturdy+2 more
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A corpus-based analysis of noun modifiers in L2 writing: The respective impact of L2 proficiency and L1 background. [PDF]
Bozdağ FÜ, Mo J, Morris G.
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ABSTRACT Our paper contemplates wanderer figures in literature as inspiration for rethinking the academic as pedagogue and the practice of reading in the context of ongoing ecological uncertainties. Academia is permeated by performance pressure in teaching and research. By prioritising productivity, growth and speed, universities are complicit with the
Daniela Dora, Mary Cosgrove
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Family language policy and heritage language transmission in Pakistan-the intersection of family dynamics, ethnic identity and cultural practices on language proficiency and maintenance. [PDF]
Fatima S, Nadeem MU.
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