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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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Words That Pack a Punch: Dynamic Subtitles and Virtual Multilingualism in John Wick
The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the role of “dynamic subtitles” in the American action film series John Wick (2014–2025). These subtitles, which vary in color, size, and position, draw attention to themselves as fully integrated aspects of the visual spectacle of the film series.
Dylan Caskie
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Abundant research has indicated fluency features as meaningful predictors of second language proficiency. However, the extent to which different fluency dimensions and features can predict proficiency remains underexplored. This meta‐analysis employed a multilevel modeling approach to synthesize fluency–proficiency relationships from 71 ...
Xun Yan, Yuyun Lei, Yulin Pan
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
Mind &Language, EarlyView.It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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A troubled inheritance: Overcoming the temporality problem in cases of historical injustice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Renaud‐Philippe Garner, Marion Godman
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Gadamer, Paul and Inspired Speech in Corinth
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The goal of this article is to elucidate two aspects of Hans‐Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics that impinge on the question of transcendence and then to bring them into conversation with the Apostle Paul's discussion of divinely inspired speech in Corinth.
Benjamin A. Edsall
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Stigma and Rawlsian Liberalism
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Euan Allison
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The Problem of Christ’s Acquired Knowledge
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Thomas Aquinas is universally applauded for his “courage and perspicacity” in eventually admitting an acquired knowledge in Christ. According to this doctrine, Christ, through the experience of his senses, came to know what he previously did not know.
Joshua H. Lim
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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