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Arrègulas: Oral Poetry and Minority Language Standardisation

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
Arrègulas is a proposal for the standardisation of Campidanese Sardinian approved by the Province of Cagliari, in 2009. It began as a reaction to the promotion by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia of one Logudorese-based standard language (Limba Sarda ...
Rosangela Lai
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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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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The portrayals of fathers and daughters in Mary di Michele's poetry [PDF]

, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2010Esta dissertação analisa a poesia da escritora ítalo-canadense ...
Simões, Andrea Cristina Natal
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Slam Poetry- A link between black feminism and oral poetry traditions [PDF]

, 2017
Slam poetry is a recently emerged genre in the West that has gained critical and popular attention during the last three decades. Today, universities and poetry groups across the world have slam poetry competitions.
George, Anna
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A War-song on Yoḥannəs IV against the Egyptians, recited by Ləğ Täfäri in Aksum, 1906

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007
Oral tradition is, under many aspects, an important component of historiography. It is extremely rich and still to a large degree unexplored. It does not only consist of the orally transmitted memory of people who witnessed historical events, but also ...
Wolbert G. C. Smidt
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La représentation et la perception de la xenitia dans la poésie orale de l’île de Karpathos

Cahiers Balkaniques
The exile of the Greek population is a reality which largely inspired the creation of popular songs from the demotic songs of the Byzantine era to the urban songs created from the end of the 19th century. The village of Olympos on the island of Karpathos
Mélanie Nittis
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Benjamin Zephaniah’s dub poetry and its appeal to children: an ecocritical reading

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry that originated with Black poets in Jamaica, Britain, and Canada. It is accompanied by rhythmical accentuation and gesticulation while performing in front of the audience.
Alanoud Abdulaziz Alghanem
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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