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What does it mean to be a post‐Newtonian? Schelling on competing scientific models

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract While Schelling's position has often been portrayed as highly critical of Newton, his discussion of Newton's theories has never been thoroughly studied. The goal of this paper is to analyze in more detail the relationship between Schelling and Newton, with an eye toward the fundamental question that guides Schelling: how can conflicts between ...
Raphaël Authier
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal

Sillages Critiques
In her essay “Modern Poetry,” published in the little magazine Charm in 1925, the British artist Mina Loy identified the source of the renewal of the English language in the streets of New York, famously claiming: “It was inevitable that the renaissance ...
Diane Drouin
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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch, Hanna Bruns, Martin Schweinberger   +2 more
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Kinship Terms and Person Address in the English‐Speaking Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of migration, globalization and digitalization on the use of nominal address terms in the English‐speaking Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora community by undertaking a corpus analysis of English fiction authored by diaspora members with SLT heritage. In the 40 years since the outbreak of the Sri Lankan civil war,
Anke Lensch
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When the Present Reads the Past: Critical and Social Literacy Practices as Transformative Uptake in Digital Reader Reviews

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 4, October/November/December 2026.
This graphical abstract shows how Ryu Si‐min's 1985 Appeal Brief became available for civic reading in contemporary digital publics. The qualitatively led convergent mixed‐methods design combined sentence‐level rhetorical analysis of 184 source‐text sentences, directed qualitative analysis of 752 online reader reviews, and separate corpus‐level LDA ...
Goun Park
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The verse forms of the Old English “metrical” charms

Filologia Germanica
This essay takes into account the metre of the so-called metrical charms, arguing that these charms are characterised by a number of prosodic elements such as free alliterative verses, recurring repetition and some occasional rhyme.
Claudio Cataldi
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O'Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 764-780, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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Geography and ‘The New’

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This Intervention reflects on the multiple, contradictory and ambivalent relations human geography has with ‘the new’. Some sort of relation with the new is an inescapable and necessary part of all practices of knowledge generation. Newness, whether it be an empirical finding, an idea, a concept or an approach, can fuel the interest, wonder ...
Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell, David Bissell, Beth Greenhough, Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, Nathaniel Télémaque, Tatiana Thieme   +7 more
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 389-404, September 2026.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Two Printing Presses of Kadir Natkho, or A Writer of the Transcultural Borderland

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
Based on the aphoristic expression of S. Kellman “Every translingual writer is translingual in his own way”, the author of this article examines the distinctive features of the linguistic biography of the Adyghe-American prose writer Kadir Natkho (1927 ...
Karina S. Tkhakakhova
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