The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (in press). 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.

Indian Myth, Korean Wave, and ‘Thainess’: Politics of Hybridity in Thai Literature in the 21st Century (2024)
Journal Article
Boonhok, S. (online). Indian Myth, Korean Wave, and ‘Thainess’: Politics of Hybridity in Thai Literature in the 21st Century. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2024.3

‘Thainess’ [khwam-pen-Thai] or Thai identity has long been a state-constructed ideology linked to nationalist sentiment. However, in the 21st century, internal politics and globalisation have come to challenge its monopoly. Against this backdrop, rei... Read More about Indian Myth, Korean Wave, and ‘Thainess’: Politics of Hybridity in Thai Literature in the 21st Century.

Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Darmawan, A. (in press). 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.

Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt (2023)
Book
Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (2023). Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt. Harrassowitz

The book offers twenty indexes unlocking the wealth of data on the history of the Jaina tradition embedded in Johannes Klatt's Jaina-Onomasticon. The indexes were created by the authors by cross-referencing the bio-bibliographical information collate... Read More about Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt.

On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese (2023)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y., & Wang, W. (2023). On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese. In M.-H. Chiang, & C. Y.-M. Yiu (Eds.), 早期漢語方言語法 Grammatical Studies on Early Chinese Dialects (1-30). Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has a sentence-final particle tse that has a tense-marking function. We review works by Nairong Qian (2006; 2009), Yuen Ren Chao (1926), and Li et al. (1982) and analyse Shanghainese missionar... Read More about On the time-encoding function of the sentence-final particle tse in modern Shanghainese.

Zwischen Schweigen und Sprechen. Sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Frauen in lateinamerikanischer und südafrikanischer Literatur (2023)
Book
Nenadovic, A. (2023). Zwischen Schweigen und Sprechen. Sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Frauen in lateinamerikanischer und südafrikanischer Literatur. transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839467398

Seit MeToo können Frauen öffentlich ihre erlebte sexualisierte Gewalt thematisieren – so zumindest eine häufig geteilte Annahme. Dagegen zeigt Ana Nenadovic auf, dass das Sprechen darüber keineswegs frei, sondern weiterhin tabuisiert ist. Aus interse... Read More about Zwischen Schweigen und Sprechen. Sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Frauen in lateinamerikanischer und südafrikanischer Literatur.

Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad (2023)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B., & Iwasaki, N. (2023). Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad. In M. Derivry-Plard, & A. J. Liddicoat (Eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures (126-137). Editions des archives contemporaines

Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2022). Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria. Africa, 92(5), 739-758. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972022000651

Nigeria is often portrayed as having a ‘Muslim north’ and a ‘Christian south’. Such representations oversimplify the complicated interrelationships between the two religious communities and their geographic locations. Similarly, while much has been w... Read More about Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria.

Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies (2022)
Book
Barrett, T. H., & Wong, L. W.-C. (Eds.). (2022). Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies. Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book98209

Summary:This edited volume investigates translations from the languages of China into the languages of Western societies, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Rather than focusing solely on the activity of translation, the authors extend their explor... Read More about Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, T. (2022). Introduction. In T. Barrett, & L. W.-C. Wong (Eds.), Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies (xi-xlii). Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2pfq2rn.5

Situating anti-LGBT moral panics in Indonesia: homophobia, criminalisation, acceptance, and religiosity (2022)
Other
Situating anti-LGBT moral panics in Indonesia: homophobia, criminalisation, acceptance, and religiosity. Abingdon, UK

Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra (2021)
Other
Liljenberg, K., & Pagel, U. (2021). Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra. Fremont, CA

The Śrīgupta sūtra is the story of a plot against the life of the Buddha. Śrīgupta, a wealthy young Jain disciple, at his guru's instigation invites the Buddha to lunch at his house in Rājagṛha, where he secretly prepares a fire-trap and a poisoned m... Read More about Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra.

From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon (2020)
Book Chapter
Kamdem, S. (2020). From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon. In G. Forlot (Ed.), Variation linguistique et enseignement des langues : le cas des langues moins enseignées (233-251). Presses de l'INALCO. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pressesinalco.39822

Cameroon is officially a French English bilingual country, but it is actually highly multilingual with 286 local languages, all at various levels of standardisation. But from colonial times, and despite the Independence in 1960, none of the local lan... Read More about From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon.

日本語におけるイタリア語由来の外来語について―明治期を中心として (2020)
Journal Article
Spitale, V. (2020). 日本語におけるイタリア語由来の外来語について―明治期を中心として. Il Giappone (Napoli. 2020), 1, 169-211. https://doi.org/10.6092/2724-4369

The history of cultural exchanges between Japan and Italy can be traced back to the second half of the 16th century. However, it was only in the Meiji era that Japanese and Italian began to come into contact, and that gairaigo (loanwords) of Italian... Read More about 日本語におけるイタリア語由来の外来語について―明治期を中心として.

Prosodic Patterns in Ramari Hatohobei (2020)
Thesis
Vita, V. Prosodic Patterns in Ramari Hatohobei. (Dissertation). SOAS, University of London

With only one grammar describing the languages of Sonsorol-Tobi and only its phonetics, this dissertation focuses on describing prosodic patterns in Ramari Hatohobei, or Tobian, a severely endangered Micronesian language. The primary aim is to contri... Read More about Prosodic Patterns in Ramari Hatohobei.

Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia (2020)
Book
Ferrari, R. (2020). Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37273-6

This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics... Read More about Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia.

The Morphosyntax of Jejuan –ko Clause Linkages (2019)
Journal Article
Kim, S.-U. (2019). The Morphosyntax of Jejuan –ko Clause Linkages. Language research, 55(2), 315-354. https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.315

While clause linkage is a relatively understudied area within Koreanic linguistics, the Korean –ko clause linkage has been studied more extensively. Authors have deemed it interesting since depending on the successive/non-successive interpretation of... Read More about The Morphosyntax of Jejuan –ko Clause Linkages.

The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese (2019)
Book
Hill, N. W. (2019). The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316550939

The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes,... Read More about The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese.

Towards a standardized annotation of rhyme judgments in Chinese historical phonology (and beyond) (2019)
Journal Article
List, J.-M., Hill, N. W., & Foster, C. (2019). Towards a standardized annotation of rhyme judgments in Chinese historical phonology (and beyond). Voprosy âzykovogo rodstva Вопросы языкового родства (Print), 17(1/2), 26-43. https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2019-171-207

Although rhyme analysis plays a crucial role in the reconstruction of Old Chinese phonol-ogy, the field has not yet developed a standardized annotation framework for rhyme judg-ments applied to Ancient Chinese texts. B... Read More about Towards a standardized annotation of rhyme judgments in Chinese historical phonology (and beyond).

Tibetan zero nominalization (2019)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (in press). Tibetan zero nominalization. Revue d'études tibétaines, 48, 5-9