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The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives (2018)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2019). The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), 48-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1511242

While Anton Chekhov’s influence on Katherine Mansfield is widely acknowledged, the two writers’ settler colonial aesthetics have not been brought into systematic comparison. Yet Chekhov’s chronicle of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East parallels... Read More about The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives.

The Role of Teaching in Language Revival and Revitalization Movements (2018)
Journal Article
Shah, S., & Brenzinger, M. (2018). The Role of Teaching in Language Revival and Revitalization Movements. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 38, 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190518000089

Teaching is the main or even only way to pass on ancestral languages when intergenerational language transmission no longer takes place. The main reason for the interruption of natural language transmission is an increasing weakening of community bon... Read More about The Role of Teaching in Language Revival and Revitalization Movements.

The SHAMSA database 1.0 – Sources for the History and Analysis of Music/Dance in South Asia, c. 1700–1900. (Version 1.0) (2018)
Data
Schofield, K. B., & Lunn, D. (2018). The SHAMSA database 1.0 – Sources for the History and Analysis of Music/Dance in South Asia, c. 1700–1900. (Version 1.0). [Data]

The SHAMSA bibliographical database and digital collection has been developed as part of the European Research Council project Musical Transitions to European Colonialism in the Eastern Indian Ocean (MUSTECIO, Grant no. 263643, PI Katherine Butler Sc... Read More about The SHAMSA database 1.0 – Sources for the History and Analysis of Music/Dance in South Asia, c. 1700–1900. (Version 1.0).

The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (2018)
Book
Malik, H. (2018). The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004383692

In The Grey Falcon, Hamza Malik offers an account of the life and teaching of the twelfth century scholar and Sufi of Baghdad, and eponym of the Qadiri order, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077-1166). The question of whether Jīlānī was a Sufi, or s... Read More about The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.

'Inclusive Thought' (2018)
Other
(2018). 'Inclusive Thought'. London

Translation of 'Dareen Guud' by Xuseen Sheekh Axmed 'Kaddare'

Thinking Other People's Thoughts: Brian Holton's Translations from Classical Chinese into Scots (2018)
Journal Article
Bruno, C. (2018). Thinking Other People's Thoughts: Brian Holton's Translations from Classical Chinese into Scots. Translation and Literature, 27(3), 306-318. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2018.0353

Brian Holton (b. 1949), the only currently working translator of classical Chinese poetry into Scots, is here approached biographically, through his personal history and his career in translating and publishing. Holton's collection of his own transla... Read More about Thinking Other People's Thoughts: Brian Holton's Translations from Classical Chinese into Scots.

Boko Haram (2018)
Book
Kendhammer, B., & McCain, C. (2018). Boko Haram. Ohio University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tpdz

From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world’s most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram’s bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria. Going beyond th... Read More about Boko Haram.

'The Community of Ants' (2018)
Other
(2018). 'The Community of Ants'. London

Translation of 'Beesha Qudhaanjada' by Cabdi Aadan Xaad 'Cabdi Qays'

'Glorious Gobannimo' (2018)
Other
(2018). 'Glorious Gobannimo'. London

Translation of 'Gobannimo Macaanaa' by Cabdillaahi Cawed Cige

'Rain's Breeze' (2018)
Other
(2018). 'Rain's Breeze'. London

Translation of 'Saxansaxo' by Xasan Xaaji Cabdillaahi 'Xasan Ganey'

'Arrogance' and 'Seer' (2018)
Other
(2018). 'Arrogance' and 'Seer'. London

Translations of 'Aadmi' and 'Uurkubaalle' by Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye'

The role of Hanlyu in Japanese Translation Studies = 일본 번역학 연구에 있어 한류의 역할 (2018)
Journal Article
Sato-Rossberg, N. (2018). The role of Hanlyu in Japanese Translation Studies = 일본 번역학 연구에 있어 한류의 역할

The Japan Association for Interpreting and Translation Studies (JAITS) was founded in 2008. Ten years have since passed. Before JAITS was established, translation research in Japan was mainly done by academics in fields such as Comparative Literature... Read More about The role of Hanlyu in Japanese Translation Studies = 일본 번역학 연구에 있어 한류의 역할.

The Pushing-Hands Approach to Translation Practice: A case study of team translation of A Full Load of Moonlight by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde. (2018)
Book Chapter
Lee, G. (2018). The Pushing-Hands Approach to Translation Practice: A case study of team translation of A Full Load of Moonlight by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde. In D. Robinson (Ed.), The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory: In memoriam Martha Cheung (1953-2013) (121-136). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315697680-10

Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: the Yoruba example (2018)
Book Chapter
Osunnuga, T., & Yusuf, A. (2018). Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: the Yoruba example. In A. Salawu (Ed.), African Language Digital Media and Communication (209-215). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351120425-12

Since the first experiment in 1859 with Ìwé ròyìn fún Àwọn ará gbá àti Yorùbá, Yorùbá newspapers and the broadcast media – Nigeria Broadcast Corporation and Western Nigerian Television, both established in 1957 and 1959 respectively – have positively... Read More about Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: the Yoruba example.

Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament” (2018)
Journal Article
Yuan, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2018). Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament”. Linguistics and literature studies, 6(5), 211-218. https://doi.org/10.13189/lls.2018.060503

This essay attempts to demonstrate, via surveying 10 classics in the history of rhetoric, that “ornament” collocated with rhetorical figures is widely viewed as inventional or argumentative, especially from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. Further,... Read More about Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament”.