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Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War) (2016)
Journal Article
Rettová, A. (2016). Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War). Comparative Literature, 68(4), 389-407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3698477

A central discussion in African Philosophy concerns the “African concept of time,” famously theorized by John S. Mbiti. Mbiti makes a distinction between a circular and a linear concept of time, associating the former with Africa and the latter with... Read More about Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War).

kososel tamlon uy kyepohak: wiliem sukhillentu <kotaysosel> uy yenkwusacek uyuy (Genealogy of the Discourse on Korean Traditional Novels: A Study on the Academic Significance of Professor W. E. Skillend's <Kodae Sosol> (2016)
Journal Article
Ahn, D., & Yeon, J. (2016). kososel tamlon uy kyepohak: wiliem sukhillentu uy yenkwusacek uyuy (Genealogy of the Discourse on Korean Traditional Novels: A Study on the Academic Significance of Professor W. E. Skillend's . Nammyeonghag yeon'gu, 52, 121-170. https://doi.org/10.14381/NMH.2016.52.12.30.121

Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference? (2016)
Book Chapter
Iwasaki, N. (2016). Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?. In N. Iwasaki, P. Sells, & K. Akita (Eds.), The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (193-218). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695-10

This chapter addresses the issues by examining how first language (L1) English or Korean speakers of second language (L2) Japanese describe Motion events depicted in animated cartoons, by first selecting Motion events for which many L1 Japanese speak... Read More about Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?.

Scalar implicature (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2016). Scalar implicature. In R. Sybesma (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill

Presupposition triggers (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y. (2016). Presupposition triggers. In R. Sybesma (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill

Novel in African Languages (2016)
Book Chapter
Rettová, A. (2016). Novel in African Languages. In S. Gikandi (Ed.), Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 11 - The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 (71-86). Oxford University Press

Associated motion constructions in African languages (2016)
Journal Article
Belkadi, A. (2016). Associated motion constructions in African languages. Africana Linguistica (Imprimé), 22, 43-70. https://doi.org/10.2143/AL.22.0.3197351

The aim of this paper is to highlight the frequent occurrence of associated motion and compare the construction in 20 languages from the four main linguistic phyla of Africa. Associated motion is a strategy typical of Australian and South American la... Read More about Associated motion constructions in African languages.

The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (2016)
Book
Iwasaki, N., Sells, P., & Akita, K. (Eds.). (2016). The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African langu... Read More about The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation.

Uncovering Small-Scale Multilingualism (2016)
Journal Article
Lüpke, F. (2016). Uncovering Small-Scale Multilingualism. Critical multilingualism studies, 4(2), 35-74

This paper uncovers a particular type of multilingualism: small-scale multilingualism, meant here to designate communicative practices in heteroglossic societies in which multilingual interaction is not governed by domain specialization and hierarchi... Read More about Uncovering Small-Scale Multilingualism.

A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2016). A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 3(2), 270-281. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.3.2.04hil

Song (2014) draws renewed attention to the problem of groups of Chinese words in which the character used to write one of the words has a stop final reading in Middle Chinese but the character used to write another of the words has an open syllable r... Read More about A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese.

Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction (2016)
Journal Article
Rettová, A. (2016). Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction. Research in African literatures, 47(3), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.02

This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose, and following the experimental phase back to realism in the recent works of some of the former literary experimentators. This trend is called... Read More about Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction.

Southern Hokkien: An Introduction: What We Did and Why We Did What We Did (2016)
Journal Article
Fuehrer, B. (2016). Southern Hokkien: An Introduction: What We Did and Why We Did What We Did. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 166(2), 425-441. https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.166.2.0425

Southern Hokkien (Minnanhua, Taiwanese), one of the southern Chinese regional languages, is rarely taught in Chinese programmes at European or American universities. This paper sheds light on the design and pedagogical aims of a new comprehensive int... Read More about Southern Hokkien: An Introduction: What We Did and Why We Did What We Did.