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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Phonaesthemes and sound symbolism in Swedish brand names

Ampersand, 2015
This study examines the prevalence of sound symbolism in Swedish brand names. A general principle of brand name design is that effective names should be distinctive, recognizable, easy to pronounce and meaningful.
Åsa Abelin
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A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins [PDF]

, 2017
Book review by Nelson Goering of A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R.
Goering, Nelson
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Two Nationalisms, One City: Official and Diasporic Framings of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the contested collective memories of the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti‐ELAB) movement, investigating how the Hong Kong government and diaspora construct divergent narratives to shape national identity and nationalism.
Isaac Iu
wiley   +1 more source

Vowel-colour Symbolism in English and Arabic: A Comparative Study

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2014
Sound symbolism, or the non-arbitrary relationship between the formal and the semantic components of language, has traditionally been a neglected area, mostly due to the strong influence of Saussure’s structuralism during the 20th century.
Pilar Mompeán Guillamón
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Phono-semantically Motivated Lexical Patterns: Evidence from English and Modern Greek. [PDF]

, 2007
Generally, linguistic theory assumes that the association between sound and meaning is essentially arbitrary: a meaning can theoretically be represented by almost any set of sounds in a language.
Mela-Athanasopoulou, Elizabeth
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
wiley   +1 more source

Symbolic Sounds in Ulysses

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2018
Reading Ulysses, all kinds of sounds impinge on our ears from all sides. They may be human or nonhuman, loud or low, soft or rough, funny or ridiculous. This paper will explore the different symbolic or metaphorical implications of two distinctive sounds: the church bells and the jingling sound. It seems that few Joycean scholars have attended to Joyce’
Xianyou Wu, Yi Zheng
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
wiley   +1 more source

La Espiritualidad: Transmitting Peruvian Culturo‐Spiritual Elements into Occidental Systemic Spaces

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is a decolonising, Indigenous qualitative inquiry that integrates elements of critical autoethnography, narrative methods and conceptual analysis to explore how Peruvian Andean cosmology can inform contemporary systems thinking and family therapy practice.
Deisy Amorin Woods
wiley   +1 more source