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Reimagining History Learning: How AI could Empower Historians (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gerteis, C. Reimagining History Learning: How AI could Empower Historians. London and Minneapolis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies offer the opportunity to reimagine how history is learned. These tools have the potential to empower non-technical historians to create engaging and personalized learning environments. Yet, the field remains... Read More about Reimagining History Learning: How AI could Empower Historians.

Multi-contextual perspectives on silence: a narrative case study (2024)
Journal Article
Seiko, H. (2024). Multi-contextual perspectives on silence: a narrative case study. Neofilolog, 63(2), 265-292. https://doi.org/10.14746/n.2024.63.2.3

This narrative case study explores ways a Japanese learner of English utilised multiple silences as an interactional resource, enhancing collaborative second language (L2) interaction beyond the classroom while studying abroad in the United Kingdom.... Read More about Multi-contextual perspectives on silence: a narrative case study.

From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric (2024)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian, K. (2024). From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric. Philological Encounters, 9(3/4), 346-374. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10060

This article explores the vernacularization of Arabic rhetorical embellishments by Persian rhetoricians, presenting it as an early instance of comparative literary theory emerging through translation. Focusing on the organizational figurative device... Read More about From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric.

The Emergence of Hindavi Literary Cultures in the Sultanate and Early Mughal Period (2024)
Book Chapter
Orsini, F. (2024). The Emergence of Hindavi Literary Cultures in the Sultanate and Early Mughal Period. In R. M. Eaton, & R. Sreenivasan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.013.3

This chapter discusses the main vernacular genres in sultanate and early Mughal north India—romances, versions of the Sanskrit epics, and songs. It focuses on vernacular texts under the broad rubric of Hindavi, but adopts a multiscalar approach to si... Read More about The Emergence of Hindavi Literary Cultures in the Sultanate and Early Mughal Period.

Silent Dialogues: The shifting flow of silence and solitude in Tokyo Story and implications for L2 pedagogy (2024)
Journal Article
Harumi, S. (2024). Silent Dialogues: The shifting flow of silence and solitude in Tokyo Story and implications for L2 pedagogy. Journal of Silence Studies in Education, 3(2), 103-124. https://doi.org/10.31763/jsse.v3i2.97

This study aims to illustrate portrayals of silence and solitude in the film Tokyo Story (1953) and to depict the ways human relationships and bonds evolve through characters’ silent dialogues. It also explores ways a study of silence such as this ca... Read More about Silent Dialogues: The shifting flow of silence and solitude in Tokyo Story and implications for L2 pedagogy.

「選択的記憶と戦略的忘却：日本における歴史の商品化と産業遺産」 [Selective Memory and Strategic Forgetting: The Commercialization of History and Industrial Heritage in Japan] (2024)
Journal Article
ガータイス [Gerteis], ク. [. (2024). 「選択的記憶と戦略的忘却：日本における歴史の商品化と産業遺産」 [Selective Memory and Strategic Forgetting: The Commercialization of History and Industrial Heritage in Japan]. Tōyō Bunka Kenkyūjo kiyō = 東洋文化研究所紀要 = Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, 186, 63-109

Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa: Thematic Perspectives (2024)
Book
Brenner, L. (2024). Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa: Thematic Perspectives. James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.17072709

This book is a richly detailed comparative analysis of endogenous, Muslim, and Christian religious thought and practice in sub-Saharan Africa. Organized thematically, the book presents a conceptual and analytical framework for the study of religious... Read More about Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa: Thematic Perspectives.

Soft Texts (2024)
Journal Article
Orsini, F. (2024). Soft Texts. Journal of World Literature, 9(3), 357-371. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00902006

David Damrosch’s formulation of world literature has energized the field but struggles to include texts that circulate but are not “read as literature.” This essay takes up the case of songs, and particularly Bhojpuri songs, and follows their traject... Read More about Soft Texts.

Rayhana al-Majnuna (2024)
Other
Hammond, M. Rayhana al-Majnuna. Cham

Rayhana al-Majnuna was an eighth-century black Muslim ascetic and Arabic poet from the city of Ubulla in modern-day Iraq. Her vigorous devotional practices, such as excessive weeping, expressions of intense fear of God, and praying throughout the nig... Read More about Rayhana al-Majnuna.

Noun class semantics in Atlantic (2024)
Book Chapter
Cobbinah, A. (2024). Noun class semantics in Atlantic. In F. Lüpke (Ed.), The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa (483-515). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736516.003.0022

This chapter compares data from a range of Atlantic languages with respect to noun class semantics. Despite the abundance of complex and typologically interesting noun class features attested in Atlantic languages, many of these features have not rec... Read More about Noun class semantics in Atlantic.

Joola Kujireray (2024)
Book Chapter
Watson, R. (2024). Joola Kujireray. In F. Lüpke (Ed.), The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa (211-237). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736516.003.0010

Joola Kujireray is the Joola variety assocated with the village of Brin (Jire in Kujireray), located ca. 12km to the west of Ziguinchor, the main city of the Casamance region of Senegal. This chapter constitutes a concise description of the main aspe... Read More about Joola Kujireray.

Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya (2024)
Other
Hammond, M. Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya. Cham

Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya (1111–1184) was an Arabic poet of Fatimid Egypt who lived into the Ayyubid era. Coming from a family of prominent Islamic scholars, she trained as a traditionist, or as a transmitter of hadith (the sayings of the Prophe... Read More about Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya.

Baïnounk Gubëeher (2024)
Book Chapter
Cobbinah, A. (2024). Baïnounk Gubëeher. In F. Luepke (Ed.), The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa (263-290). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736516.003.0012

This chapter, an expanded and updated version of the grammatical sketch first presented in Cobbinah (2013a), gives an overview of basic phonological, morphological, and syntactic phenomena in Baïnounk Gubëeher, a language spoken by ca. 1,000 people t... Read More about Baïnounk Gubëeher.

Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu (2024)
Book
Bloom Ström, E.-M., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Marten, L. (Eds.). (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821359.001.0001

This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages, providing a comprehensive overview of the wealth of empirical and conceptual work in the field. The chapters discuss data from some 80 Bantu langua... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu.