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Erotizing Nabokov’s Lolita in Arabic: How Translation Strategies Shift Themes and Characterization of Literary Works

Open Cultural Studies, 2022
Given the conservative nature of Arab societies, Vladimir Nabokov’s English novel Lolita (1955) poses considerable challenges to Arab translators because of its pornographic nature and controversial themes: pedophilia, incest, and young teenage sex. This
Al Saideen Bassam, Haider Ahmad S., Al-Abbas Linda S.   +2 more
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Codeswitching in Arabic reality food competition shows through the lens of partial subtitling: A case study of the MENA adaptation of top chef

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
Localized reality television competitions centering on food merge language and food to express the emotional depth that stems from identity. While many have examined the relationship between food and identity and language and identity separately, few ...
Mohammed Farghal, Ahmad S. Haider, Susan Abu Tair   +2 more
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Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English [PDF]

, 2021
A review of evidence for foot structure from early Middle ...
Goering, Nelson, Nelson Goering
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Cognitive Advantages of Multilingual Learning on Metalinguistic Awareness, Working Memory and L1 Lexicon Size: Reconceptualization of Linguistic Giftedness from a DMM Perspective

Journal of Cognition, 2022
The relation between multilingual learning and cognition through (linguistic) giftedness has not been studied yet in third language acquisition, multilingualism or cognition studies.
Ferhat Dolas, Ulrike Jessner, Gülay Cedden   +2 more
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Functional Transposition of ABOUT in the 9th–21st Centuries [PDF]

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2022
The paper exemplifies a unique attempt to trace the evolution of the preposition and the adverb ABOUT as initial and transposed categories. The study focuses on the development of both interwoven categories since 850 and up to the early 21st century ...
Yurii Kovbasko
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The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik ‘I’: unpacking the changes [PDF]

, 2013
The phonological shape of the PDE first-person nominative singular pronoun ‘I’ is assumed to have a simple history. The final consonant of WGmc *ik ‘palatalises’ (i.e.
Laing, Margaret, Lass, Roger
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“I want you to be a formidable wolf like your father”: Gender dynamics and desert modernity in contemporary Khaleeji fiction

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
This study examines novels by two contemporary Khaleeji authors and their engagement with desert modernity. Their works challenge the romanticization of the desert in modern Arabic literature as a pre-modern space defined and dominated by men.
Abdulrahman Al Farhan, Raya Al raddadi
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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Edited by Laura Wright

Iperstoria, 2022
review of The Multilingual Origins of Standard English by Laura Wright, ed.
Gloria Mambelli
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MIDDLE ENGLISH [PDF]

The Year's Work in English Studies, 1921
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[Un]Licensed Riot: Prodigality, Hypocrisy, and Guild Discourse in Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale

Nalans, 2022
Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale demonstrates the characterization of a riotous apprentice, the narrative depiction of conflict between that apprentice and his master, and that master’s issuing of a questionable “papir” of “acquitance” (4404 & 4411) to suggest ...
David Pecan
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