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Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya (2024)
Journal Article
Gibson, H., Githiora, C., Kanana Erastus, F., & Marten, L. (2024). Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya. Studies in Language, 48(4), 909-950. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22017.gib

This paper examines the morphosyntax of the East African Swahili-based urban youth language or stylect Sheng. Research on urban youth languages has often focused on these varieties as sites of rapid change and linguistic creativity. However, we show... Read More about Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya.

Shuhda al-Katiba (2024)
Other
Hammond, M. Shuhda al-Katiba. Cham

Shuhda bint Abi Nasr Ahmad ibn al-Farj, commonly known as Shuhda al-Katiba, was a leading transmitter of hadith—or narrations of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad—in twelfth-century Baghdad. Many prominent Islamic scholars studied under... Read More about Shuhda al-Katiba.

Linguistic Diversity (2024)
Journal Article
Sallabank, J. (2024). Linguistic Diversity. Global perspectives (Oakland, Calif.), 5(1), Article 117328. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2024.117328

Linguistic diversity is generally perceived as declining, although the number of languages in the world, as counted by catalogues such as Ethnologue (Eberhard et al. 2023), is actually increasing year on year. This paper will consider what is meant b... Read More about Linguistic Diversity.

Problems of Translation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdel-Haleem, M. (2024, April). Problems of Translation. Presented at 90th Conference of the Arabic Language Academy, Cairo

Dragon Ball, Japan and the World: The Legacy of Akira Toriyama (2024)
Digital Artefact
Cervelli, F. Dragon Ball, Japan and the World: The Legacy of Akira Toriyama

Dr Filippo Cervelli looks back on the work of late Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama and its great cultural impact in touching the hearts of many across the world and contributing decisively to Japan’s global image.

Nexus of L2 classroom interaction and language socialisation: Loneliness to Togetherness (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harumi, S. (2024, April). Nexus of L2 classroom interaction and language socialisation: Loneliness to Togetherness. Paper presented at The 4th Alone Together Conference, Lincoln, UK

This study explores ways in which two Japanese EFL learners enriched their L2 interactional repertoires through language socialisation beyond the L2 classroom during a year-long overseas study programme in the UK. Drawing on the concept of individual... Read More about Nexus of L2 classroom interaction and language socialisation: Loneliness to Togetherness.

Exploring Japanese L2 learner silence in cross-cultural communication (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harumi, S. (2024, April). Exploring Japanese L2 learner silence in cross-cultural communication. Presented at Open Lecture, Department of English Studies, University of Warsaw

The use of silence by Japanese second language (L2) learners of English has been explored within a diverse landscape, psychological, interactional, and socio-cultural perspectives, since 1990s. Previous studies have revealed multi-faceted perspective... Read More about Exploring Japanese L2 learner silence in cross-cultural communication.

Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Historical Video Games (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gerteis, C. Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Historical Video Games. London

Historical video games represent a unique convergence of digital entertainment and educational media, blending immersive experiences with history education. These games have achieved considerable commercial success and captivated millions globally by... Read More about Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Historical Video Games.

The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine (2024)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (2024). The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine. Jewish social studies, 29(1), 161-192. https://doi.org/10.2979/jss.00006

To what extent did Ashkenazi Jews integrate and acculturate into the local society, culture, and politics of late Ottoman Palestine? This question has been almost entirely ignored by the voluminous scholarship on the migration of Jews from central an... Read More about The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine.

Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights (2024)
Journal Article
Ouyang, W.-C. (2024). Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights. Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies, 24(1), 189-208. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.10127

Framing in The Thousand and One Nights (Alf layla wa-layla) brings together not only people and their stories but also temporalities, geographies and destinies. It stages coincidental encounters of these in en- tangled story lines (story within story... Read More about Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights.

Creating a Learning Community of Language Teachers - Emergence of "Ba" - Organic Ground for Collaborative Learning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Perera, N. (2024, May). Creating a Learning Community of Language Teachers - Emergence of "Ba" - Organic Ground for Collaborative Learning. Presented at 12th International Language Teacher Education Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA

It has been widely recognized that professional learning communities (PLC) are the key to effective language teacher education and training. Recently, the research on the emergence of an informal PLC network outside organized institutions has garnere... Read More about Creating a Learning Community of Language Teachers - Emergence of "Ba" - Organic Ground for Collaborative Learning.

Against minoritization: five strategies for world literature (2024)
Journal Article
Orsini, F. (online). Against minoritization: five strategies for world literature. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2024.2314277

This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of world literature has coincided with the age of global Anglophone and the virtual minoritization of a... Read More about Against minoritization: five strategies for world literature.

Translation as Metonymy: Bijan Elahi’s Persian Variation on Cyrano de Bergerac (2024)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian, K. (2024). Translation as Metonymy: Bijan Elahi’s Persian Variation on Cyrano de Bergerac. Comparative Critical Studies, 21(1), 51-75. https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2024.0504

In this article, I develop a model for world literature as a patchwork comprised of translations that cross boundaries of language, genre, style and culture. Through a close reading of the modernist Iranian poet Bijan Elahi’s (d. 2010) translations o... Read More about Translation as Metonymy: Bijan Elahi’s Persian Variation on Cyrano de Bergerac.

Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison (2024)
Journal Article
List, J., Hill, N. W., Blum, F., & Juárez, C. (2024). Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison. Open Research Europe, 4(31), https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16839.1

Computer-assisted approaches to historical language comparison have made great progress during the past two decades. Scholars can now routinely use computational tools to annotate cognate sets, align words, and search for regularly recurring sound co... Read More about Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison.