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Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities (2025)
Journal Article
Pranjol, M. Z. I., & Amir, A. (2025). Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities. Frontiers in Education, 10, Article 1550711. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1550711

This perspective paper draws attention toward an urgent issue, that is, decolonizing mental health language for South Asian communities. A quarter of the world speaks at least one South Asian language including the global South Asian diaspora and the... Read More about Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities.

From object to practitioner: Japan and the tourist gaze in colonial Taiwan and Korea (2025)
Journal Article
Wearden, C. (online). From object to practitioner: Japan and the tourist gaze in colonial Taiwan and Korea. Journal of Tourism History, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2025.2485933

This paper provides a historical overview of a hitherto neglected area of historical research on tourism: how Japan transitioned in the late nineteenth century from the object of Orientalist fascination among Western nations, to a power projecting it... Read More about From object to practitioner: Japan and the tourist gaze in colonial Taiwan and Korea.

Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present (2025)
Book
Cervelli, F. (2025). Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003472384

This book analyzes the theme of immediacy and the supremacy of the present in contemporary Japanese fiction. Examining immediacy in literary works by a diverse body of authors and works in popular culture released during the major social and economic... Read More about Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present.

Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili (2025)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., & Gibson, H. (2025). Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili. In H. Kennard, E. Lindsay-Smith, A. Lahiri, & M. Maiden (Eds.), Historical Linguistics 2022. Selected papers from the 25th ICHL, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022 (184-197). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.369.12mar%3Flocatt%3Dmode%3Alegacy

The paper examines contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Swahili, where material which had historically been lost is ‘reintroduced’ through contact with closely related languages which have retained the original feature. The paper discusses three... Read More about Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili.

Book Review: 'Histories of Children’s Television Around the World' GozanskYuval (ed), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023; 289 pp. ISBN 9781433196720, £84 (hbk), 9781433199028, £32 (pbk), 9781433198939 £32 (pdf), 9781433198946 £32 (epub) (2025)
Journal Article
Horsley-Heather, E. (online). Book Review: 'Histories of Children’s Television Around the World' GozanskYuval (ed), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023; 289 pp. ISBN 9781433196720, £84 (hbk), 9781433199028, £32 (pbk), 9781433198939 £32 (pdf), 9781433198946 £32 (epub). Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020251325373

Sara al-Halabiyya (2025)
Other
Hammond, M. Sara al-Halabiyya. Cham

Sara bint Ahmad ibn ʿUthman ibn al-Salah al-Halabiyya was an Arabic poet and scholar of the second half of the thirteenth century who was of Syrian origin but who made her career in al-Andalus and North Africa. She traveled extensively, dedicating ma... Read More about Sara al-Halabiyya.

Hafsa bint al-Hajj (2025)
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Hammond, M. Hafsa bint al-Hajj. Cham

Hafsa bint al-Hajj was an Arabic poet of twelfth-century al-Andalus. Although she is associated with the city of Granada, her name links her to the village of Rakuna, as she is often called Hafsa bint al-Hajj al-Rakuniyya or al-Rukuniyya. She compose... Read More about Hafsa bint al-Hajj.

The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2025). The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation. Journal of the African Literature Association, 19(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2025.2464416

In February 2023, Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho tweeted a cover of Muddassir S. Abdullahi’s yet-to-be-published Hausa-language translation of Coelho’s bestselling novel The Alchemist to his 15.2 million followers. At the same time Ibrahim Sheme was... Read More about The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation.

Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab (2025)
Book
Ouyang, W.-C. (2025). Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab. I. B. Tauris in Association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755657520

Literature has for thousands of years served as a space in which people have negotiated the ethics of daily life. In the Islamic tradition, the broad concept of adab spans ethical instruction and literary culture. Literature classified asadab was int... Read More about Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab.

Nigerian English: History, functions and features (2025)
Journal Article
Ugwuanyi, K., & Aboh, S. C. (online). Nigerian English: History, functions and features. World Englishes, https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12732

This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discuss... Read More about Nigerian English: History, functions and features.

Temporal information in sentence-final particles (2025)
Journal Article
Jiang, Y. (2025). Temporal information in sentence-final particles. Asian languages and linguistics, 5(2), 251-280. https://doi.org/10.1075/alal.24007.jia

This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has sentence-final particles tse and keh that have tense-marking functions. We review works by Qian (2006; 2009), Chao (1926) and Li, Thompson & Thompson (1982) and analyze Shanghainese mi... Read More about Temporal information in sentence-final particles.