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Exploring Linguistic Strategies in Romanian Clickbait Headlines: Communication Tactics in Online Media [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara: Transactions on Modern Languages
This study investigates the communication tactics embedded in clickbait headlines found in Romanian online media, by linguistically analysing a corpus of 80 headlines sourced from the Libertatea newspaper.
Marcela Alina FĂRCAȘIU   +1 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Thomas Hardy and sensationalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Thomas Hardy launched his career as a novelist by writing a sensation story in Desperate Remedies. Although he abandoned sensationalism in the next novel, he returned to sensation elements in A Pair of Blue Eyes; and after this, he continually ...
Uehara, Sanae
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News in an age of competition: The case of sensationalism in Dutch television news, 1995-2001 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Contains fulltext : 56468.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Trends in sensationalism in Dutch television news were investigated through a content analysis of 3 Dutch TV news programs in 1995 and 2001, a period when the competition
Hendriks Vettehen, PGJ   +5 more
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Romanul judiciar. Către un nou subgen al romanului istoric românesc / The judicial novel: Toward a new subgenre of the Romanian historical novel

open access: yesSwedish Journal of Romanian Studies
The lifespan and popularity of a subgenre are determined by the inventiveness with which novelists develop and innovate the standard formulas. The judicial novel emerges as an extension of the popularity of the outlaw novel, adding a technical dimension ...
Alexandra Olteanu
doaj   +1 more source

Typefaces Are All Almost the Same. Non-systematic Review of Scientific Findings on the Impact of Typographic Features on Reading Performance

open access: yesDIID, 2021
The interest in discovering the limits of legibility has not ceased to interest those who use letters in typography and, to a certain extent, those who study the reading process. Sometimes the debate on the subject is marred by sensationalism.
Luciano Perondi
doaj   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Cautionary Tales for Science‐Based Policy in Deep‐Sea Mining Governance

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how low‐certainty scientific claims permeate high‐stakes policy debates before rigorous validation. Using deep‐sea mining governance as a focal domain, the study traces high‐visibility narratives, including the “dark oxygen” hypothesis, radioactive risks of polymetallic nodules, projected impacts of sediment plume ...
Lucía Villar‐Muñoz
wiley   +1 more source

Crowd, Sensationalism, and Power: The Yearly Ansar Dine ‘Pilgrimage' of Maouloud in Bamako [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Through a self-ethnography based on the phenomenology of a religious movement's gathering, the article questions the credibility of measuring popularity of Muslim leaders in Mali due politics, media, and ...
Chappatte, André
core   +1 more source

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