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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.

Old names for new things: two items of Malay royal regalia as invented tradition (2024)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2024). Old names for new things: two items of Malay royal regalia as invented tradition. Indonesia and the Malay World, 52(152), 51-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2024.2307733

This article examines two objects of Malay royal regalia: the Perak betel-box known as the puan naga taru and the Riau emblem known as the cogan. Drawing on Hobsbawm and Ranger’s articulation of ‘invented tradition’, and on Amoroso’s of ‘traditionali... Read More about Old names for new things: two items of Malay royal regalia as invented tradition.

Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Darmawan, A. (2024). Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 52(152), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2024.2294612

This article discusses the efforts of constructing the narrative of continuity that connects the Indonesian province of Riau Islands with the former Malay kingdoms, Riau-Lingga-Johor-Pahang, and supports the claims to be the heir of the originator of... Read More about Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia.

Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges (2024)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian, K., & Gould, R. R. (2024). Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743824000266

Although translation and commentary are often treated as distinct, separable activities in literary and intellectual history, the Persian tradition of Qur'an exegesis demonstrates that they are best understood in relation to each other. Introducing t... Read More about Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges.

Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (2024)
Book
Gibson, H., Guérois, R., Mapunda, G., & Marten, L. (Eds.). (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches. Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10453704

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verba... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches.

Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili (2024)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Jerro, K. (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili. In H. Gibson, R. Guérois, G. Mapunda, & L. Marten (Eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (383-420). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10663785

The comparative and historical study of Bantu and other African languages is often based on contemporary, synchronic data since many African languages do not have a long-written record. In contrast, for Swahili such a record exists in the form of an... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili.

Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Mapunda, G. (2024). Introduction. In H. Gibson, R. Guérois, G. Mapunda, & L. Marten (Eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (1-13). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10663761

Collaborative Problem Solving and Literacy Practices: A Conversation-Analytic Case Study of Children's Online Pre-gaming Interaction (2024)
Journal Article
Jawhar, S. S., Amir, A., Huq, R.-U., & Stewart, S. (2024). Collaborative Problem Solving and Literacy Practices: A Conversation-Analytic Case Study of Children's Online Pre-gaming Interaction. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 7(1), Article 137312. https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v7i1.137312

Online video gaming has developed from a hobby to a ubiquitous, social and leisure phenomenon. Roblox, a free-to-play, online sandbox platform has thrived in this time, with a substantial global userbase, where the majority of Roblox users are under... Read More about Collaborative Problem Solving and Literacy Practices: A Conversation-Analytic Case Study of Children's Online Pre-gaming Interaction.