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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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"Poetiken der Infrastruktur" oder Foucault und Materialität
Genealogy+Critique, 2015 This article reviews the lectures delivered at the international conference "Poetics of Infrastructure" in Vienna on December 13, 2014. The author first discusses material concepts in Foucault, especially the panopticon as a dispositif, and then proceeds
Simon Ganahl
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Nerval, « dans l’art rien n’est frivole »
Flaubert: Revue Critique et GénétiqueNerval, like Gautier, is distinguished by his “fantaisist” spirit and fascination with the whimsical and strange. His attachment to popular imagination resonates with his quest for material visions of the hallucinations in Aurélia.
Keiko Tsujikawa
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2017 Mina Loy and Diane di Prima’s experimental poetic contributions to their early “situational avant-gardes” (the 1910s Modernists and late 1950s Beats in New York) vindicated the relation of gender and experiment within their countercultural movements ...
Isabel Castelao-Gómez
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Poetics of the Key Scenes of V. Pelevin’s Literary Historiosophy
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2017 The article studies the poetics of the key scenes of the artistic philosophy of history of Victor Pelevin. There is an attempt to identify the features of his rational creative manner.
Tatyana E. Sorokina
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HumanitiesThis article demonstrates the enabling influence of mixed-genre (or hybrid) poetries by North American women on recent poetry by Irish women poets, specifically in the past decade.
Julie Morrissy
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